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All those points are invalidated because meat is inefficient, it takes more crops, more water, more pesticides, more “crop deaths” to cultivate food for livesto
by neuralRiot 4y ago
All those points are invalidated because meat is inefficient, it takes more crops, more water, more pesticides, more “crop deaths” to cultivate food for livestock than for direct consumption. The romanticized picture of the cow pleasantly grazing in an open field is an unsustainable fantasy.
- jononomo 4y agoThere were herds of bison on the American plains during the early 1800s that were so large it would take a week for the herd to walk past a campsite. I was reading the memoirs of Ulysses S Grant a couple years ago and he reports that when he was on a military expedition in Texas a couple of decades before the American Civil War, they came across a herd of wild horses that was so large that they could climb to the top of a nearby hill and see the herd stretching from horizon to horizon on either side. My question for you is: what were all these animals eating, since we were not cultivating food for them? Also, why do you think cows don't graze in open fields? Maybe you should take a drive through Lancaster County, PA, sometime. I hear there are cows out west, too.