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Re:My diet of almost only red meat by neuralRiot on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:45AM (#31118302)
Grassfed livestock uses 15-20 times more land than CAFOs at an estimate of 91.9 million heads (us stock as of jan 2022 according to USDA census) you’ll quickly realize that meat consumption at current rates its impossible.
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Re:My diet of almost only red meat by throwawaycities on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:30PM (#31123864)
Total land usage isn’t the only consideration, in fact it’s probably the most immaterial.

Cattle grazing on open grass lands is generally healthy for the land, the cattle and the end consumer. It’s actually a great trade off to destroying land with monocrop agriculture used to fatten up cattle which makes them sick and contributes to chronic conditions/metabolic diseases of the end consumers.

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Re:My diet of almost only red meat by neuralRiot on Friday April 22, 2022 @04:58PM (#31128030)
> Total land usage isn’t the only consideration, in fact it’s probably the most immaterial.

I don’t want to sound insulting but I don’t think you thought very well what it means to grow 91 million heads of cattle on grass alone, remember grass takes time to grow and it doesn’t do it during winter.

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Re:My diet of almost only red meat by throwawaycities on Sunday April 24, 2022 @06:36AM (#31142781)
There are about 30M beef cattle and 10M dairy cattle.

The US once supported as many as 75M Buffalo, I don’t want to sound insulting but any guesses what they ate?

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Re:My diet of almost only red meat by moltar on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:42AM (#31118568)
Not if you farm Joel Salatin style. He has a great sustainable system.
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