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>>Factory farms are the big problem. Is it wrong to say that factory farms are efficient and therefore less of a strain on resources?
by frozenport 12y ago
>>Factory farms are the big problem.
Is it wrong to say that factory farms are efficient and therefore less of a strain on resources?
- dwiel 12y agoBasically, "the cheaper the better." That's not how I evaluate food choices since it is so closely tied to health and so quality is important in addition to cost. There are plenty of other times other than food when "the cheaper the better" is not true.
- mycatbijou 12y agoThey're cost efficient, not "resource efficient".
- gfodor 12y agohow is there a difference? less cost = less capital = less resources.
- mycatbijou 12y agoWater is cheap.
- willyt 12y agoHuman capital. Fertile ground is better used for food crops rather than animal feed crops. Marginal land is most efficient for grazing livestock. But hill farmed livestock is labour intensive and skilled dirty uncomfortable work to boot. Labour is expensive.
- reitanqild 12y ago> skilled dirty uncomfortable work Grew up on a farm on marginal land. Actually liked it.
- tripzilch 12y agoThey're only correlated up to a point. If you optimize for cost, you'll end up at a different maximum than if you optimize for resource usage.