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Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by dsrees on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:32AM (#25416647)
You can't plow a mountain side and grow acres of corn or build a feedlot. But you can run cattle and sheep over it which are able to forage the grasses while climbing the terrain.

So mountainous people are able to obtain calories from animals in places otherwise unsuitable for more conventional farming methods.

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Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by rplnt on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:15AM (#25417107)
No one is trying to force people to abandon their locally sourced food. The problem is with people in developed nations who live in cities. Also the point is you wouldn't need to expand the farmlands, quite the opposite.
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Re:Europe's Biggest Vertical Farm Will Be Powered by Wind an... by esarbe on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:52PM (#25423876)
Thanks for clarifying.

Letting cattle and sheep and goats forage in terrain unsuited for agriculture is fine.

I still think we should stop feeding that 1/3rd of our grain to cattle.

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