Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99%

Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by VBprogrammer on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:17AM (#20716014)

There are plenty of things that animals can eat that are inedible to humans, or at the very least unpalatable. Tree fodder, rapeseed meal, sunflower husks, wetland reeds.

Feeding animals nothing but corn and soybean is a travesty for a number of reasons but that doesn't mean meat production as a whole needs to stop.

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by shlant on Sunday August 18, 2019 @11:44PM (#20734719)

> Feeding animals nothing but corn and soybean is a travesty for a number of reasons but that doesn't mean meat production as a whole needs to stop.

Best estimates show that 70%+ of cows and 98%+ of all other meat comes from factory farms(CAFO's)[1], so to say "meat production as a whole needs to stop" is not that far off when almost all of it is what you would describe as "a travesty".

Good luck finding enough "Tree fodder, rapeseed meal, sunflower husks [and] wetland reeds" to make up for it. We don't have enough grazable land in the WORLD to support the kind of meat consumption in most 1st world countries[2].

1. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUpRFOPmAE5IO4hO4PyS...

2. https://ourworldindata.org/agricultural-land-by-global-diets

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by asciimo on Friday August 16, 2019 @05:20PM (#20719820)

Is one of those reasons that it is inhumane?

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