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Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? by ericd on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:34PM (#18632315)
>Show me a carbon-neutral cow.

Any purely grass fed cow should be close, no? They're part of the normal carbon cycle, and that carbon is pulled back in when the grass regrows. The problem is when you bring sequestered carbon (fossil fuels) into the mix.

Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? by virtuallynathan on Friday December 07, 2018 @05:42PM (#18632371)
Cows can also sequester carbon with their Poo going into the soil.
Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? by mac01021 on Saturday December 08, 2018 @11:12AM (#18635879)
No, because that land could be be reforested if it weren't kept for the cattle.
Re:Can We Grow More Food on Less Land? by ericd on Saturday December 08, 2018 @09:41PM (#18638923)
A lot of grassland can’t support a forest. Cattle are able to survive on land that is otherwise too marginal to do much of anything but grow grass.