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Ruminants would do well on most wild growth. In Australia they are pretty much let loose in semi-arid vegetation and then rounded up and sent to feedlots at en
by h0l0cube 3y ago
Ruminants would do well on most wild growth. In Australia they are pretty much let loose in semi-arid vegetation and then rounded up and sent to feedlots at end of life. They may not do well in a drought or flood, but that's already the case as they are often die on stations in extreme weather events. Plenty of wild pigs and sheep around to suggest they'd do okay without humans, but maybe not to the same flourishing.
- bell-cot 3y agoFor some types of livestock, where they were lucky enough to be living in fairly idyllic circumstances, it might go rather well. OTOH - the U.S. alone has something like half a billion chickens. Mostly live locked up in huge metal sheds on factory farms. Similar ~1/4 billion turkeys. The humans go "poof" ...and those metal sheds probably don't have any "peck here for 30 seconds to open emergency exit" doors. Zero of the trucks which deliver the chicken and turkey feed, the high-intensity farming operations which are growing that feed, and the processing facilities blending it will just keep running due to some sort of Narrative Momentum trope. I'm not familiar with factory farming of pigs (about 22 million in the U.S.), but I suspect similar issues.
- h0l0cube 3y ago> The humans go "poof" ...and those metal sheds probably don't have any "peck here for 30 seconds to open emergency exit" It's like they don't. But such an event would pale in comparison with the turnover as it stands