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The alfalfa is also used for cows grown in CA for CA residents. That's also a bad thing. Cow farms should be significantly limited in arid climates. There are e
by mcdonje 4y ago
The alfalfa is also used for cows grown in CA for CA residents. That's also a bad thing. Cow farms should be significantly limited in arid climates. There are ecologically better alternatives.
- Maursault 4y agoThere are way too many cows, man, and all because of marketing and greed.
- readthenotes1 4y agoGreed only plays a supporting role here. Gluttony is the cardinal sin more to blame.
- omarfarooq 4y agoGluttony is greed.
- ncmncm 4y agoYet, techically, different. Each gets a sin of its own.
- readthenotes1 4y agoThere's an old list of sins: Pride Greed Lust Anger Gluttony Envy Sloth Whether or not you believe the religion whose followers came up with this list, it does provide a handy way to categorize human behavior.
- krasin 4y ago>The alfalfa is also used for cows grown in CA for CA residents. That's also a bad thing. Cow farms should be significantly limited in arid climates Technically, from what I understand, it's enough to limit alfaalfa in arid climates. The location of cow farms does not matter much after that, in terms of water usage. What's also good is that enforcing alfaalfa regional restrictions is super easy - a satellite photo would be enough to spot a field, and there's not enough margin to have any organized crime to fight back.
- jazzyjackson 4y agoIf you're pumping water to grow grass in the desert just for the beef, there are better uses for the water. However, cows have the unique ability to turn grass into protein, so if all an area can grow is grass, cows are a great way to get calories out of it. Properly allowed to graze freely, cows can be a net improvement on a particular ecology as a carbon sink (manure is an improvement to the soil), but shipping the harvested grass to feedlots is indeed an ecological disaster.
- Retric 4y agoYou get more protein per X acres eating corn than feeding that same corn to cows and eating the cows. If you prefer meat then chicken is worse than eating corn but still much better than cows. We eat beef because it’s delicious and that’s it’s only advantage at scale.
- AussieWog93 4y agoThe whole point of GP's post is that you can't grow corn everywhere. There is some soil that only supports grass, and the most efficient way to extract nutritional value from this land is through grazing animals.
- Retric 4y agoIrrigation lets you grow corn or other crops just about anywhere. The availability of irrigation is largely a solvable problem. In the US for example the east coast, Alaska etc gets plenty of fresh water which just ends up in the ocean.
- WheatM 4y ago
- chiefalchemist 4y agoCow farms should be limited regardless of climate. To make food to feed it to food (i.e., animals) because of some dated tradition is not longer appropriate. It's not sustainable. This isn't a pro-animal talking point. It's a pro-humam and pro-ecology fact.