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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by Spooky23 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:12PM (#20711856)
No, it’s not. Most of the places where nuts are grown in industrial scale are water challenged.

Animal agriculture is unsustainable at the scale we operate in today in the United States. Meat doesn’t equal feedlot, and pastured ruminant agriculture helps sustain the land.

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by bacon_waffle on Thursday August 15, 2019 @11:29PM (#20711940)
> pastured ruminant agriculture helps sustain the land.

That totally depends on which land we're talking about. In a lot of places, forest was cut down to create the pasture, and so grazing to "sustain the land" is perhaps misguided.

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by JMTQp8lwXL on Friday August 16, 2019 @12:03AM (#20712076)
That still leaves fruits and vegetables, which proportionally compose much more of a diet than nuts.
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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by GordonS on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:15AM (#20714336)
Yes, but I imagine the OP included nuts in the list because of their protein and fat - you don't find much of either in fruit and veg, with a few exceptions (avocado, soy beans).
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