Re:Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop...
by woodruffw on Saturday November 06, 2021 @10:56AM
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Does any country in the developed world produce any significant share of its beef from grassland grazing? The US certainly doesn’t.
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Re:Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop...
by InvaderFizz on Saturday November 06, 2021 @01:18PM
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Do you have any data for this? The only source[0] I have been able to find easily with numbers says about 30% of beef is non-factory farmed.
For every other meat type, it's overwhelmingly factory farmed (98%+).
0: https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estima...
Re:Nitrogen fertilizer shortage threatens to cut global crop...
by woodruffw on Sunday November 07, 2021 @11:44AM
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That is, admittedly, a lot higher than I was expecting! But 70% is still a sizeable majority. Moving the entire industry to grassland feeding would likely result in a fundamental upwards shift in how beef is priced, one that I suspect the GP would be unwilling to accept.