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No. Ruminants eat food that humans can’t. Furthermore, grazing grassland uses marginal land unusable for industrial scale farming. And, locally operated meat
by pjkundert 6y ago
No. Ruminants eat food that humans can’t. Furthermore, grazing grassland uses marginal land unusable for industrial scale farming. And, locally operated meat processing works just fine.
Virtually all of our problems with the meat supply are self-created and can be fixed — lets just return to the horror show we had 30 or so years ago... wait - it was just fine 30 years ago, and someone who ate the same meat he sold you was responsible for raising and preparing your food.
Source: family owned and run feedlot, and worked at a local abattoir thru university.
- xsmasher 6y agoRuminants CAN eat food that humans can't, but they're not - they're fattened up on grain that could be fed to humans. Feeding that grain to humans would be more efficient.
- jandrewrogers 6y agoIt varies by locale. Most of the rural places I lived did not use human consumable cereals, as that would be far too expensive.
- xsmasher 6y agoI'll bow to your experience; we can't just ship the same crops to people. Still, growing crops to feed to cows to feed to people is an inefficient path to getting calories to people. Grow people crops, skip the cows.