3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 年前Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?message-squaremessage-square289fedilinkarrow-up1182arrow-down1169
arrow-up113arrow-down1message-squareWhy do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?3volver@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 年前message-square289fedilink
minus-squareZorque@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down5·2 年前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.
minus-squareFaceDeer@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·2 年前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.
minus-squarespidermanchild@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 年前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.
minus-square7heo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 年前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. 😶
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.
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.
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. 😶