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The thought of that many lentils makes me gag. Cows and sheep can easily live on land not suitable for crops. Livestock is a way to essentially turn unproducti

The thought of that many lentils makes me gag. Cows and sheep can easily live on land not suitable for crops. Livestock is a way to essentially turn unproductive, dry grassland into meat.

myshpa 3y ago
What you're missing is that half of the year they live on soy from deforested Amazon. https://ourworldindata.org/soy https://ourworldindata.org/soy And that "unproductive dry grassland" used to be natural habitat for wildlife, until we took it from them, and more often than not used to be forested. The potential for carbon storage afforesting those areas is huge, so huge that we could store our entire 1.5˚C carbon budget in them. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4 https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://xkcd.com/1338/ Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010 https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal... Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agriculture_production_as_a_major_driver_of_the_Earth_system_exceeding_planetary_boundaries https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...
triceratops 3y ago
So I take it you buy exclusively free-range grass-fed meat and dairy?
- baremetal 3y ago
  No I started raising my own beef. Restorative agriculture for the win. I won't be eating crickets or vegan burgers or whatever zealots think I should eat. Or be deprived of eating.
  - triceratops 3y ago
    Sorry for the late reply and you aren't the person I responded to originally, but good for you! Have an upvote

The thought of that many lentils makes me gag. Cows and sheep can easily live on land not suitable for crops. Livestock is a way to essentially turn unproductive, dry grassland into meat.

myshpa 3y ago

What you're missing is that half of the year they live on soy from deforested Amazon. https://ourworldindata.org/soy https://ourworldindata.org/soy And that "unproductive dry grassland" used to be natural habitat for wildlife, until we took it from them, and more often than not used to be forested. The potential for carbon storage afforesting those areas is huge, so huge that we could store our entire 1.5˚C carbon budget in them. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-020-00603-4 https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass https://xkcd.com/1338/ https://xkcd.com/1338/ Rapid global phaseout of animal agriculture has the potential to stabilize greenhouse gas levels for 30 years and offset 68 percent of CO2 emissions this century https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal.pclm.0000010 https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal... Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agriculture_production_as_a_major_driver_of_the_Earth_system_exceeding_planetary_boundaries https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

triceratops 3y ago

So I take it you buy exclusively free-range grass-fed meat and dairy?

baremetal 3y ago
No I started raising my own beef. Restorative agriculture for the win. I won't be eating crickets or vegan burgers or whatever zealots think I should eat. Or be deprived of eating.
- triceratops 3y ago
  Sorry for the late reply and you aren't the person I responded to originally, but good for you! Have an upvote