• InvalidName2@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    Can’t we solve this problem like Elon would solve the problem and simply store the cheese in space?

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    11 days ago

    Milk isn’t sustainable.

    If they’re smart, they’ll see the writing on the wall and switch to a plant based alternative. And maybe move their fermentation location to higher altitude

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        11 days ago

        all eat cheese

        But why do you need to eat cheese though? It’s incredibly unnecessary and only works to abuse the animals that produce it. Maybe step back and think about what you’re doing instead of assuming that “we all” need to eat cheese.

        Sorry but that’s what always gets me about talking to non-vegans. Unless you’re somewhere like the Arctic Circle you’re consuming animals solely for the pleasure of taste — that’s an ugly look.

        Edit: Keep downvoting you disgusting people.

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              Naa I know plenty about it. As you militant vegans are all over lemmy. The joke here is that animals eat other animals…humans are no different, we’re omnivores for a reason. You can act like plants can replace meat but the amount of nutrients from 4oz of meat vs 4oz of some plant is always going to be way out of proportion.

              Plants require a lot of work as well. Most farms that produce meat, are not mega farms like you guys think. The majority of the farms here in the US are small operations, 1k or less head of cattle. They make up 90% of what is consumed. The cows drink, non-potable water. They eat mainly grass (you don’t raise a cow on grain, shit is expensive when grass and roughage is free) and they don’t require you to constantly fertilize the soil to grow something. On top of all this, the majority of what is fed to cows is grass/roughage, and then hay in the winter, which is just rolled up grass/roughage. The feed they finish cows with is non-eatable foods from plants you and I eat. Stalks, roots, stems…shit you cannot process. You think they take and just toss out the plant you’re beans grow on? Hell no, it’s turned into cattle feed.

              So, yes I know a lot about this, because I own a farm and work closely with other farmers, who grow that plant based diet you eat… so be vegan all you want, no one is saying you can’t, but don’t come acting high and mighty because you don’t want the rest of us to eat meat.

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            I eat meat but I have to admit they’re right – there’s no need to eat meat and cheese and it does come from animal torture. I was raised on it and im too lazy to fight back, but i can at least give vegans their due credit for doing the right thing.

            We’re the ones in a cult, not them. The people who were saying to quit smoking tobacco fifty years ago were absolutely right too.

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      11 days ago

      When cattle are grazing unbuildable, unfarmable land, it is a fully renewable and sustainable system. Presumably the trees are the casualty but you could just as easily argue that timber products are not sustainable.

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        Absolute misinformation. Look at California and tell me there is such a thing as unfarmable land.

        If cattle can graze there, you can grow crops there.

        In fact, cattle require an enormous amount of more resources (eg water) than crops do

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          Have you traveled around? The foothills have a lot of very rocky slopes and terrain. Terrace farming is extremely expensive and labor intensive. Vineyards are the only crop grown on slopes at scale, and we already have too many grapes.

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            Them using land is not the only thing they do.

            They drink water for example, a kg of cow meat requires 1000L of water. This is not a problem everywhere, but it can be.

            They eat grass and there are many places where they have the space and the climate to walk around and eat the grass that is there, but many places they need additional food. Their biggest source of protein is usually soy. Most of that soy comes from south-america: first they burn down a forest to make space, then they plant genetically modified soy. This soy is modified to be resistant to pesticides. They spray the entire plot with these chemicals, so everything dies except the soy. This stuff travels beyond the borders of the farmers land, killing local wildlife and threatening the ecosystem.

            Also not all cows are treated well. A cow only gives milk after birth, so each year a cow has to be insimenated and birth a baby cow. A cow can live for decades, but their body is working so hard many won’t live over 10 years.

            Another problem is that cows are given hormones and antibiotics, residues of which end up in consumer meat.

            I’m not writing this because I believe we should go to a 100% plant-based society, but the current system of mass-production is a lose-lose situation for everyone except for the people making a (small) profit.

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                Make sure you tell everyone and tell them how they are supposed to live. Make sure to use a lot of fake science.

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                  11 days ago

                  I already started posting it all over NextDoor. Next I’m going to protest the meat, wool, and egg vendors at farmers market tomorrow.

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              cattle are hardly fed any soy at all, but the vast majority of the soy fed to livestock is the industrial waste from pressing soybeans for oil. that’s conserving resources.

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                I dont know how you’ve come to believe that, but it is not even remotely true. Cows eat parts that humans do not, but what they’re fed is not a product that’d otherwise be wasted. Deforestation to feed livestock including cows is a real thing and soy is a big part of that. Feel free to eat as much meat as you want, but the least you can do is not share false information.

                graph showing soy use by industry

                When someone mentions soy, we often think about foods such as tofu, soy milk, tempeh, or edamame beans. This feeds into the argument that meat and dairy substitutes – such as switching from meat to high-protein tofu or from dairy to soy milk – is in fact worse for the environment. But, only a small percentage of global soy is used for these products. More than three-quarters (77%) of soy is used as feed for livestock.

                https://ourworldindata.org/drivers-of-deforestation

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                  you do see that cows hardly get any of the soy, right? and that the vast majority of what is fed to them is the waste product from pressing the soybean for oil?