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40,000 acre cattle ranches don't use fertilizer.
by bpodgursky 6y ago
40,000 acre cattle ranches don't use fertilizer.
- jdavis703 6y agoBut the cattle likely eat plants farmed with fertilizer.
- artificialLimbs 6y agoThis is often done at the 'finishing' level (I forget what it's technically called, if it is...), even if the cattle are pasture raised for the dominant portion of their lives. You should see these places. Horrific shitholes, literally; cows stand knee deep in their own excrement and I believe they're fed dominantly corn to fatten them up for a few weeks before going off to freezer camp. These kinds of places are on public display on Texas highways and interstates. Even if the ranches where they're raised are 40,000 acres, the places they go before they hit your table may be a whole new world.
- ggm 6y agobut cattle finishing yards generate huge amounts of nitrogenous liquid waste.
- phkahler 6y agoI guess my point is that they're mostly smaller, family owned farms. That means the giant scale stuff could still come along and make things worse.