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Depends on the animals. My cows are fed exclusively grass, right to finishing. My pigs and chickens are fed mixes of locally-sourced corn, oats, barley, peas,
by sjwalter 5y ago
Depends on the animals.
My cows are fed exclusively grass, right to finishing.
My pigs and chickens are fed mixes of locally-sourced corn, oats, barley, peas, and lentils from organic growers. And they supplement with grasses and broadleafs because we raise 'em on pasture.
Well-raised, environmentally reasonably-fed animals cost lots of money.
Meat is basically the healthiest thing people can eat.
If you just take the pasture-raised cows alone, the grass grows itself and large herbivores are a natural part of the environment here--the environment and its polyculture would be harmed by their removal.
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- orangeoxidation 5y agoI don't expect the plant based products to outcompete high-quality, expensive, free-roaming cattle. I hope it will outcompete cheap, monoculture-soy fed, medicine pumped, densely grown and factory slaughtered cheap meat. The second is far more common than the first. As you said, good meat from well-raised animals is expensive. So not the awesome and expensive steak you may eat from time to time, but the cheap meat in fast-food, the chicken-wings, burgers, lasagnas, pizzas, tacos, currys and more.
- halikular 5y agoTotally agree with you. @orangeoxidation does have a point about the cheap meat, since that's nothing like traditionally raised animals.