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> ... with 4 friends for years now: every year, we go in on buying an entire cow from a local rancher. With the current global adult (ages 15-64) population of

• vages 8y ago
  But not all people in the world crave cow's meat.
• apatters 8y ago
  I miss the days when comments on Hacker News focused on hacking and startups instead of scoring Internet virtue points. Aside from this figure being totally irrelevant (billions of humans don't like and don't eat beef; the parent is probablya heavy beef eater even by US standards), here's a thought. If the parent is right and the quality is higher, maybe there is an opportunity to build a service which connects people with local ranchers so everyone can do this. That would keep commerce local and reduce the emissions involved in transporting beef around the world. But no, let's fixate on neo-Puritan finger wagging in every topic on every forum on the Internet. god forbid we have ideas to make things better without judging people for their habits.
• dagw 8y ago
  You're assuming that those 4 people consume all the meat themselves and don't share any of their meals with their family or in other ways re-distribute a portion to other people.