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Good for you that you can afford grass-fed beef, but this doesn't scale at all. The monocrops you mention as a problem are largely used to feed cattle today: a
by thamer 5y ago
Good for you that you can afford grass-fed beef, but this doesn't scale at all.
The monocrops you mention as a problem are largely used to feed cattle today: about 80% of land used for agriculture produces feed for livestock, most of it single crops like corn and soy – despite only contributing to about a fifth of the calories we consume. And it's not like we can greatly expand production either, we already use about half of all habitable land for agriculture.
- Spooky23 5y agoSure it does. The United States made a policy decision to push for cheap meat. That’s why we are where we are. The tail wags the dog in the thinking here. “Scaling” fast food price hamburgers is the problem. It’s a problem on a bunch of levels. It’s not scalable because we’ve changed the definition of food. The best farmland in the world lay fallow because we’ve committed to growing vegetables in the desert and raising ruminants in pens, because it’s more efficient to the small cartels of processors who drive the status quo.