RE: The redneck strike again.
May 30, 2014 at 4:24 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 4:32 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Agreed, our current system is jacked, but not because that's all we've got up our sleeves. Has more to do with the backend. Sustainable livestock production can offer solutions to every one of the problems factory farming creates. Kind of brutal when you think about it...considering the consumer isn't exactly hot for it yet. In short, the problems the article expounds upon are problems with a system of production, not the product itself. Sort of like the problems with coal not being problems directly tied to electricity.
(also, like always, data regarding the consumption of agricultural products is heinously obscured...and I've seen it so often I can no longer accept that it's accidental -a great of things grown aren't grown for human consumption - and if we stopped growing them we wouldn;t be able to replace them with people food. Ag isn't plug-and-play)
A quick little excersize that will explain. Calculate how much grass I need to grow to feed a human being x calories. Now calculate how many calories would be available if i instead fed the cow the grass and the person the cow. Calories contained does not equal calories available. I rest my case.
(also, like always, data regarding the consumption of agricultural products is heinously obscured...and I've seen it so often I can no longer accept that it's accidental -a great of things grown aren't grown for human consumption - and if we stopped growing them we wouldn;t be able to replace them with people food. Ag isn't plug-and-play)
A quick little excersize that will explain. Calculate how much grass I need to grow to feed a human being x calories. Now calculate how many calories would be available if i instead fed the cow the grass and the person the cow. Calories contained does not equal calories available. I rest my case.
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