Re:Tyson Foods CEO: The Future of Food Might Be Meatless
by agitator on Wednesday March 08, 2017 @03:32PM
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I did read the article and it lists multiple inefficiencies. And I didn't claim that the article was about halting factory beef farming, so I'm not sure where you got that from. There is one line in there about Americans meeting their protein and fat intake requirements if cows were solely fed on grass.
Great rant on humans eating grass, but what does that have to do with anything? No one is saying you need to eat grass. The article is about the direct human consumption of grain vs. production of grain, feeding and growing cows, slaughtering them, shipping them, then consuming them.
Humans can process grains just fine. Humans can't process grass, cows can. Cows have four stomachs. Do you? It's way more efficient (perhaps counter-intuitively) for livestock to eat the grass, then turn it into meat, then be killed and have us eat the meat, than it is for us to eat the grass directly. When you eat a salad, and you poop, you'll find a lot of the salad in your poop. That's because you don't have four stomachs. If you had four stomachs, you'd be better at eating grass.