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>Is that really true? Yes. Livestock farming needs more than “sunlight and it’s natural products.” There isn’t enough land to replace factory farming with bett
by wyre 4y ago
>Is that really true?
Yes. Livestock farming needs more than “sunlight and it’s natural products.” There isn’t enough land to replace factory farming with better pasture-raised methods [1]. Beef production is the leading causes of deforestation in the world [2], responsible for 80% of deforestation in the Amazon [3].
How is this sustainable?
[1] https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aad401
[2] https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/beef-cattle https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/beef-cattle
[3] https://www.fao.org/3/xii/0568-b1.htm#:~:text=Pastures%20cover%2080%20%25%20of%20deforested,expansion%20of%20the%20agricultural%20frontier https://www.fao.org/3/xii/0568-b1.htm#:~:text=Pastures%20cov....
- User23 4y agoYou’re misquoting your sources. For example your second source says “In the countries that account for most of the deforestation” and not “in the world.” That qualifier complete invalidates the point you’re trying to make. And “concerned scientists” are well and good, but perhaps you should look to experts that actually live and work agriculture? And it’s sustainable because pasture is reusable and so is the farmland that grows corn and other feed.
- wyre 4y agoThere isn’t enough land for your utopia full of pastured livestock and farmland for animal feed to exist among an ever growing human population that is eating more meat than ever before. Discrediting my valid sources doesn’t change that.
- User23 4y agoThere observably is enough now and for the foreseeable future. We know population won’t grow without bounds unless we become multiplanetary. Whether we eat fake meat or real meat is asymptotically irrelevant.
- wyre 4y agoIf there was enough CAFOs wouldn’t exist to the extant they do now. If there was enough the world’s rainforests wouldn’t be getting razed to support more livestock. Stay delusional.
- User23 4y agoDo you have any background at all in agriculture besides reading alarmist websites? Fortunately for you, if you don’t want to remain ignorant and emotionally manipulated, virtually every major university in the USA has an ag extension program where you can learn how producing food actually works.
- urfullofsht 4y agoWhy do you ignore is point about the rainforest's being destroyed to raise cows? Show a resource that proves different. You can't.