A Cattle Trader’s Formula

Post by chucksta » Fri, May 13, 2022, 8:58 PM UTC

myshpa wrote: post #6

alt227 wrote: post #4

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>Eating beef means killing the planet faster. [ https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets ] This is a completely false statement. Something more accurate and less opinionated might go something like "Intensive meat farming (like any intensive farming) is contributing to harmful factors impacting the earths atmospheric and biodiversity conditions". This article (and every other one I have seen like this) bases most of…

I don't care much about downvotes, so I'll bite. > What this doesnt take into account is the millions of people who buy their meat from local sustainable non-intensive farms. Not contributing to deforestation, or diversity loss at all. And those lands where the animals graze were not forested previously? "... the Knepp Wildland project in West Sussex, where small herds of cattle and pigs roam freely across a large es…

>And those lands where the animals graze were not forested previously?

Since you're comparing with UK examples i'm going to guess you aren't familiar with the term Prairies, aka grassland. They take up about 1/3 of the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie

Post by myshpa » Fri, May 13, 2022, 10:18 PM UTC

chucksta wrote: post #11

myshpa wrote: post #6

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I don't care much about downvotes, so I'll bite. > What this doesnt take into account is the millions of people who buy their meat from local sustainable non-intensive farms. Not contributing to deforestation, or diversity loss at all. And those lands where the animals graze were not forested previously? "... the Knepp Wildland project in West Sussex, where small herds of cattle and pigs roam freely across a large es…

>And those lands where the animals graze were not forested previously? Since you're comparing with UK examples i'm going to guess you aren't familiar with the term Prairies, aka grassland. They take up about 1/3 of the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie

Have you read the referenced article?

"For 10,000-20,000 years, native people used fire annually as a tool to assist in hunting, transportation, and safety.[7] Evidence of ignition sources of fire in the tall grass prairie are overwhelmingly human as opposed to lightning.[8] Humans, and grazing animals, were active participants in the process of prairie formation and the establishment of the diversity of graminoid and forbs species. Fire has the effect on prairies of removing trees, clearing dead plant matter, and changing the availability of certain nutrients in the soil from the ash produced. Fire kills the vascular tissue of trees, but not prairie species, as up to 75% (depending on the species) of the total plant biomass is below the soil surface and will re-grow from its deep (upwards of 20 feet[9]) roots. Without disturbance, trees will encroach on a grassland and cast shade, which suppresses the understory. Prairie and widely spaced oak trees evolved to coexist in the oak savanna ecosystem.[10]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie#Formation

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