Tm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agoHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caimagemessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1392arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up1381arrow-down1imageHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caTm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square81fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekersploosh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up22·4 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-up15arrow-down2·4 months agoIt simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
minus-squareA_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down4·4 months agoVegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
minus-squareElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down3·4 months agoliterally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·4 months agoif its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.
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.
if its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.