European bird populations decrease by a quarter, farming to blame

Re:European bird populations decrease by a quarter, farming ... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:30AM (#35960923)

> Here in Northern Europe 100% of manure from housed animals is used,

That's the wrong statistics to look it - 100% of waste coffee is used. They already have it, good management will figure out a way to use it.

But you cannot make an argument that we have to keep drinking coffee because fertiliser industry will collapse without waste coffee.

There are thousands of studies about impacts of intensive animal faming on landscape, economy, health and society in general, they are all negative. This was settled like 40 years ago.

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Re:European bird populations decrease by a quarter, farming ... by biorach on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @08:35AM (#35960986)

I have no idea why you are taking about coffee.

You said

> Only a small percentage of manure is reused as fertiliser because transporting it is expensive, and messy

That's straight up false, for Northern Europe anyway.

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Re:European bird populations decrease by a quarter, farming ... by 2000UltraDeluxe on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:59PM (#35965423)

Can confirm. It's the norm up here. Wikipedia says the practice was imported from the US after WW2.

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