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Does this mean we should be advocating for more intensive cattle rearing? Stockyards and special breeds may not be the worst way to meet demand and reduce envir
by chickenbig 1mo ago
Does this mean we should be advocating for more intensive cattle rearing? Stockyards and special breeds may not be the worst way to meet demand and reduce environmental impact (measured by CO2/methane emissions as well as biodiversity loss, for instance).
- tempfile 1mo agoI despair. Is it that hard for us to imagine eating less meat?
- choo-t 1mo agoIt's far easier do avoid producing so much meat. A vegetarian diet is perfectly healthy.
- pcrh 1mo agoStockyards are the worst offenders. This is due to how the dung is processed, which releases a lot of methane. Grass-fed cattle have much lower net emissions of greenhouse gasses.
- goda90 1mo agoManaged grazing along with other regenerative techniques can sequester carbon in the soil. Factory farms have the problem of concentrated dung disposal which usually leads to letting it sit in methane producing conditions and also feed for intensive operations usually comes from non-regenerative crop farming which uses more fossil-fuel fertilizer and depletes the soil.
- chickenbig 1mo agoA concentrated problem is one that could have a concentrated solution. Sewage farms use microbes to generate the methane which goes back into the gas grid e.g. https://www.stwater.co.uk/news/news-releases/severntrentinvestsinthreenewbiomethanegastogridplants/ https://www.stwater.co.uk/news/news-releases/severntrentinve...