@Tm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish • 17 days agoHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caimagemessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up1391arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1381arrow-down1imageHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.ca@Tm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish • 17 days agomessage-square81fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarekersplooshlinkfedilink22•17 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-square@Phytobus@lemm.eelinkfedilink13•17 days agoIt simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
minus-square@A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink10•17 days agoVegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
minus-squareElcaineVoltalinkfedilink6•17 days agoliterally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
minus-square@Ledericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish0•17 days 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.