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>Land that can be used for crops being used for crops to be fed to livestock is ultimately being used for livestock.
Crops that are high quality enough to be used for human consumption are used for human consumption.
Stunted, compromised harvests and crop residues are fed to livestock. When maize is harvested, the majority of the plant is roots, shoots, stems and leaves, none of which humans eat, so it's fed to cattle. This is counted as "crops fed to cattle".
When land is left fallow and planted with nitrogen-fixers like clover to improve its fertility, and these inedible plants are fed to cattle, this is counted as "crops fed to cattle".
You are obsessed with numerical comparisons of land and biomass but you pay zero attention to the qualitative properties.
>Livestock is, however, not only fed crops. In industrialized countries livestock is fed with concentrates purchased from the feed industry. To produce concentrates the feed industry purchases feedstock from international markets. The feedstock used is selected on a least cost basis [15]. The feedstock purchased includes not only crops (wheat, maize, basedbeans, tapioca, etc.) but also food residue from, for instance, the food processing industry (oilseed scrap, molasses, potato peels, etc.). Currently, 70% of the feedstock used in the Dutch feed industry originates from the food processing industry [16]. These food residues are generated due to consumption of vegetable or vegetable-based foodstuffs. For instance, a sugar beet processing plant yields beside sugar and also beet pulp and molasses for feed purposes.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959652607001588

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