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Re:Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers by ctdonath on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @11:53AM (#20635847)
I just spent 3 weeks driving the American Midwest. There is vast grasslands uninhabited by anything but cows, and plenty of space for a great many more thereof. The environmental impact is negligible, as they turn a small fraction of human-inedible natural foliage into nutrients/calories/proteins with practically no other effects.

Earth can bear a much larger livestock load than y'all give it credit for.

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Re:Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers by Kuinox on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:02PM (#20637205)
The cows have a big environmental impact. And it's far from negligble. They generate a lot of methane.
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Re:Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers by simonsarris on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @02:20PM (#20637370)
Is that a big impact? The biomass of cows in the USA is comparable to the biomass of Bison that we killed in the 1800's. Seems like a great methane-neutral substitution for feeding 300m people.
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Re:Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers by ctdonath on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:54PM (#20640055)
What's the methane etc produced by rotting grass equivalent to bovine intake? Plans die; everyone seems to forget this.
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Re:Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers by lccarrasco on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:02PM (#20641153)
Plants do not produce methane themselves.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/01/methane-emissions-do...

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Re:Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers by moreranchplease on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @05:10PM (#20639119)
the water and feed needed to sustain not something we can keep scaling.
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Re:Vegetarians Who Turned into Butchers by ctdonath on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:53PM (#20640051)
Natural grass is the feed.
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