Tm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 16 days agoHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caimagemessage-square48fedilinkarrow-up1141arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1138arrow-down1imageHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caTm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square48fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekersploosh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up10·16 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-squareA_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·16 days agoVegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
minus-squareElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down1·16 days agoliterally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
minus-squarePhytobus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·16 days agoIt simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
Do we not eat any of the cows?
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.
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.
It simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef