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Dairy cows do scale. Stop ethanol production and drop soybeans (not part of US diet until recently) and fill the plains with cows. Note they do need to be manag
by Amezarak 4y ago
Dairy cows do scale. Stop ethanol production and drop soybeans (not part of US diet until recently) and fill the plains with cows. Note they do need to be managed carefully - keep tightly packed herds and don’t allow free range grazing.
Bonus: the topsoil comes back. We stop polluting watersheds with pesticides. We have a healthier diet.
Seeking efficiency in the food supply is exactly the problem destroying the environment, human health, and will eventually lead to a systems collapse and famine.
- ibn_khaldun 4y agoYou seem to have thought this through well. It feels like real dairy is being listed as a necessary casualty to technological/industrial progress at scale and the solutions, such as those that you're introducing, disrupt this sort of progress and its intended benefits. This sort of frustrates me (the theoretical demise of real dairy). I'm picky about my dairy selection as is, but I don't find any comfort in fake dairy (I'm not referring plant, or oat, or nut milk per se, rather lab grown ingredients and anything else that is fermented, stabilized, etc.). I have my own gripes with the dairy industry, but the mere thought of synthetic alternatives becoming the norm irritates me. How all of this is made to become appealing only upsets me further. I want to get off of this ride!