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Growing one cow requires many acres of the Amazon rainforest to be chopped down. You can cook a burger with electric heat, which can be generated with solar or
by magduf 7y ago
Growing one cow requires many acres of the Amazon rainforest to be chopped down.
You can cook a burger with electric heat, which can be generated with solar or wind power.
- kazinator 7y agoA more reasonable statement is that increasing the scope of livestock operation in Brasil by one cow requires additional acres to be chopped down. The specific figure seems implausible; you'd think that a cleared acre can support a bunch of cows, not just one.
- magduf 7y agoNo, not really. The land there isn't actually good for grazing like other places (the American plains states for instance), so you need more acreage per cow.
- yellowapple 7y agoOr they could import feed, or (someday in the hopefully-near future) they could grow the feed themselves in vertical farms (and/or grow more space-efficient crops for feed).
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- VBprogrammer 7y agoTo say it requires many acres to be chopped down is a stretch.
- magduf 7y agoNo, it's not a stretch, because that's literally what they're doing in the Amazon right now. They're razing enormous swathes of forest so that they can grow more cows.
- yellowapple 7y agoJust because Brazilians are burning down their rainforest to raise cows doesn't actually mean they need to burn down their rainforest to raise cows. They could resort to, say, factory farming, in which case the cow will require far less space because it's trapped in a tiny enclosure.
- VBprogrammer 7y agoYeah. And that's bad. But it's not required to raise beef. See for example British and Irish beef.
- magduf 7y agoYes, but the worldwide beef demand keeps growing, and places like Britain and Ireland are likely tapped out, so now operations are expanding elsewhere. Your comments is like saying "we don't have to do fracking!", when the answer is, yes, you do, to satisfy the ever-growing demand for oil.