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Cows need to eat thousands of pounds of plants before they are at a size to get slaughtered and prepared as food. Humans evolved to eat meat as a way to surviv
by wyre 6y ago
Cows need to eat thousands of pounds of plants before they are at a size to get slaughtered and prepared as food.
Humans evolved to eat meat as a way to survive through winter. Early diets relied heavily on gathered foods.
- smegger001 6y agohow much of that was human edible callories? free grazing cattle will eat plant humans won't/can't. there is alot of land thats used for grazing that is not suitable for planting crops for a variety of reasons.
- dashundchen 6y agoThe vast majority of cattle are not grazing - instead they are fed farmed grain and soy in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO if you want to search it) where the density of animals is far greater than grazing would ever support. Essentially most of that soy and corn in the American midwest and the clearcut Amazon are being raised to fatten cattle, not feed people - and it takes a lot of energy to do that.
- astura 6y agoExcept we aren't doing that, the demand for (cheap) beef far, far exceeds the supply of beef that could be made with just grazing land.
- wooger 6y agoKey then to heavily tax beef imports from any country with no agricultural standards, or which are destroying rainforests.