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If you let ruminant livestock graze in a carefully managed pattern instead of feeding them grain (grown and transported from miles away), it improves the land a
by captainredbeard 7y ago
If you let ruminant livestock graze in a carefully managed pattern instead of feeding them grain (grown and transported from miles away), it improves the land and reduces the amount of pollution:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
Cattle are not very efficient at converting grain to protein. It’s about 7:1. Pork is 2:1, in comparison. Poultry is close to 1:1.
- lozenge 7y agoIf all livestock were raised in this way there would be nowhere near enough of them to feed current demand for meat (not saying that's a bad thing). Allan Savory holds a very fringe view not supported by scientists in this field, which you wouldn't know from his TED talk.
- bjoli 7y agoDon't forget that not all lands are good carbon sinks. The Swedish department of agriculture claimed in a report (nr 25:2010 iirc. In Swedish ) that the vast majority of Swedish grazeland would not meaningfully decrease carbon emissions regardless of grazing systems
- niklasolai 7y agoYou forget the part where the animal is brutally killed at the end. Organic, grass feed, factory farming, they all end the same for the animal.