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> Not sure this is true if you're looking at free-range though. There are many places which are not very amenable to growing crops fit for human consumption, bu
by tablespoon 6y ago
> Not sure this is true if you're looking at free-range though. There are many places which are not very amenable to growing crops fit for human consumption, but are more than adequate for growing the grasses that ruminant digestive systems (e.g. cows) can easily digest.
Exactly. It's not like animal husbandry and meat-eating developed as some kind of ostentatious wasteful consumption. It's a way of converting inedible plants into edible meat.
- sweetheart 6y agoSure, totally, but how many of us live in places where we have access to the cows but not non-animals foods that can sustain us? Virtually none. So while its true that human beings ate meat for good reasons for a LONG time, its not really something that most folks need anymore. Is it true that everywhere we have cows we can also grow soy or wheat or whatever? No, definitely not. Does that matter? No, definitely not.
- cageface 6y agoIf you live in the US 90% of the meat you eat was raised in factory farms and fed farmed grains not forage.