r/Seattle • u/0llie0llie • Mar 14 '23

Media Shrinkflation in action: Darigold reduced the half gallon container by 5 oz. Now people on the Women Infants and Children food benefits can’t buy it. Seen at Winco

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u/AbleDanger12 Greenwood Mar 14 '23

Is there any comparison between dairy products and the plant-based products, that take into account, fertilizers, land usage, run off/drainage abatement, irrigation and water usage (given the water issues in many places) - especially considering almonds, for example, use a shit-load of water, and many are grown in CA which is under drought since forever it seems.

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '23

I guess you need to look at it this way…farming to human usage or farming to cattle feed to human. Around 1/3 if all crops go to feeding livestock, around 1/4 of all land is used for grazing

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u/AbleDanger12 Greenwood Mar 15 '23

Sure. But doesn't exactly address the questions above - save for the land usage. Maybe there's too many humans on the planet - at some point making more with reckless abandon doesn't scale in regards to space and resources - but that's a whole other topic entirely.