Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Industry Worries

Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by cogman10 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:02AM (#33785640)

Cattle do not eat solely from a meadow. Even if cows are free range, that's generally only a spring to fall state, in the winter they are eating farmed foods (usually hay).

For factory farmed cattle (which is the most common) the situation is far worse.

An individual cow needs 24lbs of food per day. How much soy does one person consume in a day?

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by pvaldes on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:32AM (#33785845)

> An individual cow needs 24lbs of food per day. How much soy does one person consume in a day?

This is a false equivalence. The correct question would be "how much soy consume the number of people that could be feed with this cow".

The error is understandable because many of this movements are focused in the individual, and equality among individuals. This is just one way to study ecology, but not the more interesting or rewarding one.

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by ipqk on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @09:12AM (#33787783)

Hay fields are also often monocultures. (https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=67408)

Dairy cows and meat cows are entirely different. Old dairy cows do become meat, but it's very poor meat.

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Re:Beyond Meat Is Struggling, and the Plant-Based Meat Indus... by pvaldes on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @10:46AM (#33788965)

In California. The situation can be different in other places and countries.

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