Tm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caimagemessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1273arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1267arrow-down1imageHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caTm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekersploosh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22·10 months 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-up14arrow-down2·10 months agoIt simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
minus-squareA_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down4·10 months agoVegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
minus-squareElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down3·10 months agoliterally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
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.
It simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
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.