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I just spent 3 weeks driving the American Midwest. There is vast grasslands uninhabited by anything but cows, and plenty of space for a great many more thereof.
by ctdonath 7y ago
I just spent 3 weeks driving the American Midwest. There is vast grasslands uninhabited by anything but cows, and plenty of space for a great many more thereof. The environmental impact is negligible, as they turn a small fraction of human-inedible natural foliage into nutrients/calories/proteins with practically no other effects.
Earth can bear a much larger livestock load than y'all give it credit for.
- Kuinox 7y agoThe cows have a big environmental impact. And it's far from negligble. They generate a lot of methane.
- simonsarris 7y agoIs that a big impact? The biomass of cows in the USA is comparable to the biomass of Bison that we killed in the 1800's. Seems like a great methane-neutral substitution for feeding 300m people.
- ctdonath 7y agoWhat's the methane etc produced by rotting grass equivalent to bovine intake? Plans die; everyone seems to forget this.
- lccarrasco 7y agoPlants do not produce methane themselves. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/01/methane-emissions-dont-blame-plants https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/01/methane-emissions-do...
- moreranchplease 7y agothe water and feed needed to sustain not something we can keep scaling.
- ctdonath 7y agoNatural grass is the feed.