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This is so misinformed. Much cattle production is in South America yet you cite only US figures which is less than 10% of headcount.[1] Even the US bison figure
by abalone 6y ago
This is so misinformed. Much cattle production is in South America yet you cite only US figures which is less than 10% of headcount.[1] Even the US bison figures you cite predate the massive rise in industrial CO2 emissions, greatly reducing our budget. And you claim “wild life” is declining without sources — commercial cattle still number > 1B worldwide.
> One item worth noting is that the decline in U.S. inventory since 2008 – 3.1 million beef cows – has been met with an opposite expansion in Brazil of almost 4 million beef cows during the same period.
[1] https://www.progressivecattle.com/topics/management/what-us-should-know-about-south-american-beef-production https://www.progressivecattle.com/topics/management/what-us-...
- Talanes 6y ago>Even the US bison figures you cite predate the massive rise in industrial CO2 emissions, greatly reducing our budget "Cows are a major driver of climate change" and "Cows are the part of the CO2 budget that is most expendable" are related, but not quite equivalent arguments.
- DrBazza 6y agoDon't forget the human race also nicely made extinct a whole bunch of mega fauna around in the world. In South America, for example, toxodons, which were the most common ungulate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_American_animals_extinct_in_the_Holocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_South_American_animals...
- wizzard 6y agoI just clicked through that link and there are several hypotheses for what caused the extinction of these animals. You state it was humans alone as if this were fact.