Tm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 days agoHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caTm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 days agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareA_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 days agoVegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
minus-squareElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 days agoliterally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
minus-squarekersploosh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 days agoI expect a substantial portion of that cow pasture/range land is dry grasslands and shrub steppe out west. It’s rough terrain and not good for much else. A lot of it doesn’t even have cows on it most of the time.
minus-squarePhytobus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 days agoIt simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoif its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.
Do we not eat any of the cows?
Vegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
literally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
I expect a substantial portion of that cow pasture/range land is dry grasslands and shrub steppe out west. It’s rough terrain and not good for much else. A lot of it doesn’t even have cows on it most of the time.
It simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
if its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.