@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 1 year agoWhy do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?message-square257fedilinkarrow-up1170
arrow-up1170message-squareWhy do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?@[email protected] to No Stupid [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square257fedilink
minus-squareZorquelinkfedilink9•1 year agoAnd of course the land couldn’t be used for anything else… like natural ecosystems. Just because land exists doesn’t mean it needs to be pillaged to feed our desires.
minus-square7heolinkfedilink1•1 year agoExactly. Nah, we just gotta have man made monoculture everywhere, or a desert, right? So that, in the end, it just amounts to deserts anyway. Yay. 😶
minus-squareFaceDeerlinkfedilink3•1 year agoMost ranchland is, in fact, a “natural ecosystem.” They just send cattle out to graze on it. The point I’m making here is about food efficiency, though, not about land use.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoAre we just going to ignore the millions of acres of vast grasslands that supported like 50 million buffalo in the US 200 year ago? Healthy grassland ecosystems and ruminants are a thing.
And of course the land couldn’t be used for anything else… like natural ecosystems.
Just because land exists doesn’t mean it needs to be pillaged to feed our desires.
Exactly. Nah, we just gotta have man made monoculture everywhere, or a desert, right? So that, in the end, it just amounts to deserts anyway. Yay. 😶
Most ranchland is, in fact, a “natural ecosystem.” They just send cattle out to graze on it.
The point I’m making here is about food efficiency, though, not about land use.
Are we just going to ignore the millions of acres of vast grasslands that supported like 50 million buffalo in the US 200 year ago? Healthy grassland ecosystems and ruminants are a thing.