 Hi, Bowie said you got to hit the notification bell, hit the like, hit the subscribe. Let's support Bobby's channel. Thanks All right guys, welcome back to Ask a Farmer if you're new My name is Bobby guys This is the show where you can ask our food producer Rob, whatever question you might have about modern day food production So today's question is what percentage of global crops is fed to The short answer is 55% of global cropping goes straight for human consumption 15% go to biofuels, 5% goes to other that's like cotton and rubber and that leaves 25% for livestock feed 2% of the crops that are planted are earmarked go straight for animal consumption So they're grown specifically to be fed to animals only 2% Then the rest of that 23% is failed Crops that were grown for human consumption but didn't reach a high enough standard For example in Brazil last year they grew 110 million tons of soybeans Now they exported 85 million tons to Asia and The Asians paid $450 a ton. So that didn't go to livestock feed But the remaining 25% of that Brazilian harvest when they tested it wasn't good enough to export The Asians wanted more the Brazilians had a drought and they didn't have enough to export That bottom 25% Didn't make the grade for export quality. So what did they do? They would have fed it to livestock would have gone to chickens would have gone to pork and would have gone to herbivores to be fattened up so That product was never grown for that purpose So there's some really strange numbers that get thrown around on the internet that are very disingenuous The beings will say 80% of global cropping gets fed to Livestock so it doesn't really matter about the biokill because they're eating such a small amount less That they're only responsible for a tiny percentage, but that's simply not correct. If you take something like this corn here When this goes to a factory They strip off the vegetable matter. They take the corn kernels off The corn kernels are where the energy is That's what it was grown for So the cob that's left That gets smashed up and turned into livestock feed the vegetable matter that gets turned into livestock feed So by weight this product here 80% of the weight of it gets fed to livestock. That is true But it was never grown for that and it's not worth any money. No one would grow up for the for the cob The same is true for wheat 20% of this wheat plant when it goes into a factory 20% of it Will be stripped off And be waste product. What happens gets fed to livestock My numbers are very easy to check what you do if someone gives you a number You look up the global production figure for those for that product. So say look up corn and then Take off the 30 for biofuels, which is what corn was used for 30 percent of corn was used for now. That's the high end product So then divide the remainder by 7.7 billion And that'll give you an average consumption. So when a crop is grown 25 to 30 percent of it doesn't reach high enough standard for human consumption That leftovers gets used for feeding chickens pork dairy and then a bit of a gap and herbivores Now the feed they get fed in the feed lots is seconds You can see from the video You know, there's not there's nothing in there that you would use for human food You know, you can see the odd grain odd bit of corn. It's got it's got quite a lot of almond husking at this feed So you can see from that That the cattle are getting second. So they're not eating anything that anyone else views We're turning a waste product into a useful protein that can be fed to people So if we took away that from the global food production system, we would have to grow a shitmode more grain Destroy shitload more habitats And damage the environment So be relaxed about eating meat based protein because that crop was never grown for that purpose It was grown to feed people fell short gets converted into something else useful You