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When you feed a cow you are essentially trading up. Animal meat is much more bioavailable and nutrient dense. Especially when they are eating grass on land uns
by godmode2019 4y ago
When you feed a cow you are essentially trading up.
Animal meat is much more bioavailable and nutrient dense. Especially when they are eating grass on land unsuitable for crops.
- anthonypasq 4y agoI dont think so... It takes way more than 1 calorie of plant matter to generate 1 calorie of beef
- nemo44x 4y agoPlant matter that we can’t eat and grows in areas we can’t farm.
- pm90 4y agoThe Amazon? Yeah sure but not sure thats a good trade: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/amazon-beef-deforestation-brazil/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/interactive/2022/amazon...
- slfnflctd 4y agoIn theory, I agree. However, this is only currently true for small parts of the beef supply chain in the US. The vast majority of meat tissue growth people eat here comes from factory farms. I don't have a major problem with meat eating when it's done sustainably and humanely. The real issue is that this is not the case for way too much of it now, and current meat production practices are yet another example of unsustainable overconsumption in general. Yet more than half the population regularly celebrates and enshrines that overconsumption, reinforcing it. This is not a good look to anyone who's really thinking long term & globally about these things.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago> in the US So a truly microscopic fraction of the world's agriculture?
- mywittyname 4y agoDepends on your definition of microscopic. The USA is a world-leading producer of a number of agricultural products, including corn, soybeans, beef, and in the top 10 producers of a staggering number of other crops.
- TheCoelacanth 4y agoThe US produces 12 million metric tonnes out of the world's 60 million metric tonnes of beef[1] or 20%. Hardly microscopic. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef#Global_statistics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beef#Global_statistics
- px43 4y agoThat would be pretty interesting if the opposite was true. Perpetual motion cows.
- ReactiveJelly 4y agoI thought most beef, pound-for-pound, was factory-farmed, not grazed?
- thinkcontext 4y agoIn the US cattle start out grazing and spend a portion of their life there. Then they go to dense feedlots (CAFOs) where they are fed a grain heavy diet.
- titzer 4y ago> When you feed a cow you are essentially trading up. At a 50x loss in efficiency. According to this guy [1], the US could feed 800 million people with the grain spent on cows today. Not grass, grain. [1] https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-million-people-grain-livestock-eat https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...