the sooner the US collapses, the better off the entire rest of the world will be
bobs_guns
joined 2 years ago
there are miserable people everywhere my dude. have they tried simply being happy? skill issue.
Rabbits are better
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6039332/
In the US, cows do generally come from smaller farms' cow-calf operations. They are either sold directly to feedlots after weaning or moved to backgrounding operations or ranches until they're a year old, after which they're sold to feedlots. 77% of beeves raised to market weight are done in feedlots with more than 1000 head which is the common definition of a CAFO for cattle. So even though they come from smaller farms, they mostly go through feedlots before consumption, and feedlots are dominated by CAFOs which have the most adverse effects. I wasn't able to find data on what portion of cows aren't raised to market weight in a feedlot (i.e. totally grass fed from birth to slaughter), and I additionally admit that I was oversimplifying the beef lifecycle. I also don't see how this means that we need to increase cattle production. Surely the biggest gain to be made here is to move cattle and bison production to a fully regenerative framework where they stomp a reasonable amount of manure into the ground for their whole lives, but my intuition tells me that that will result in somewhat less beef being raised because such operations require more land than the status quo. I don't have hard data to back that up though.
They're important to soil health for sure but cows that are in CAFOs (which is most of them) are not improving the soil. We should still have cows but only pastured in ways that help the soil.
agitate people who are more receptive to agitation, not just random shithead liberals who say something awful.
a handy checklist to gauge general agitatibility in the US, try to get several boxes checked, the more the better