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The cows aren't the scapegoat (no pun intended), it's the human entitlement of expecting cheap hamburgers without paying for the externalities of using the sky
by burnt-resistor 1y ago
The cows aren't the scapegoat (no pun intended), it's the human entitlement of expecting cheap hamburgers without paying for the externalities of using the sky as a sewer.
Cows eat "cow corn" (yellow dent corn). 5% of every bit of America is used to grow the stuff; only a tiny fraction is used to grow sweet corn. That's an absurd amount of overproduction thanks to subsidies. It gets inefficiently turned into ethanol and steaks. Instead, in most areas, that land could be used to grow healthier human crops like quinoa, lentils, or sorghum. Commercial sorghum is grown about 2 blocks from where I live.