Tm12 to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 hours agoHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)imagemessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1271arrow-down15file-text
arrow-up1266arrow-down1imageHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)Tm12 to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 14 hours agomessage-square55fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 minutes agoif its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.
minus-squarekersploosh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up21·13 hours 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-up12arrow-down1·13 hours agoIt simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
minus-squareA_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down3·13 hours agoVegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
minus-squareElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up8arrow-down2·12 hours agoliterally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
Do we not eat any of the cows?
if its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.
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.