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Perhaps not. Maxerickson pointed out production could be shifted away from meat to legumes in the event of serious shortages. Seems right in line with climate g

• jtdev 5y ago
  Good luck growing legumes on the acreage currently used for beef production… you can hardly walk much less tractor incredible expanses of this land. Beef cattle very efficiently convert the grasses on these lands into healthy, nutritious food for humans. It’s terrifying to realize how many of the people trying to influence food production have little if any practical knowledge of how farming actually works. People are going to starve to death en mass if your ilk have your way.
  • woodruffw 5y ago
    Does any country in the developed world produce any significant share of its beef from grassland grazing? The US certainly doesn’t.
    • InvaderFizz 5y ago
      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-estimates https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estima...
      • woodruffw 5y ago
        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.
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  • coffeemig 5y ago
    >your ilk I didn’t say I was excited about it. But, the way things have been going lately, it wouldn’t be a surprise.
  • youngtaff 5y ago
    Something like 3/4 of the world's soya production goes into animal feed and plenty of it into cattle feed