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This is a bit old, but it thoroughly examines why the livestock industry is not sustainable. https://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e00.htm https://www.fao.org/3/a0
by ChadNYC 4y ago
This is a bit old, but it thoroughly examines why the livestock industry is not sustainable.
https://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e00.htm https://www.fao.org/3/a0701e/a0701e00.htm
- User23 4y agoI think it’s fair to say that an industry that’s lasted ten thousand years[1] is sustainable. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle
- RupertEisenhart 4y agoAre you a climate change denier? Are you unaware of the changes that have happened in the last ten thousand years?
- saaarahh 4y agoWhat is the time span requirements for 'sustainable'? Everything on Earth will be toast in ~5 billion years.
- RupertEisenhart 4y agoNot sure what your point is, but agriculture needs to change dramatically in the next couple of decades. Human civilization/all life that wants to keep existing also needs to change dramatically in the next five billion years but I think that is to be expected.
- humaniania 4y agoThe problem is scale and cumulative effects.
- noelherrick 4y agoDensely-quartered urban dwellers eating like sparsely-populated pastoralists is not sustainable. A theory behind the sanctification of cows in India is because a cow kept for its meat feeds far fewer people than one kept for its milk. The same would apply to some of the climate effects, such as the feed crops, although I don't know if it would change the cow-emitted methane.
- skor 4y agoWas looking for this kind of comment in the thread. I think our cities are the main causes of many problems we are creating in our environment.