/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15172143
Reminder to all livestock haters

>>14993917
That is something that has had me scratching my head too.
Could a large population adopt a lifestyle of regeneratively raised livestock and a polyculture?
This is something that can only be answered with theories.

As for the pollution, with regenerative ag, it appears that the emissions tests done on said farms shows that pasture rotation for cows can actually cause a net sink in greenhouse gasses. This is another major reason I am a proponent for changing the management of livestock as opposed to eliminating it. There have even been farms that have made the claim that over time they can actually increase the stocking density of their land by using soil regeneration.
Yeah, these are only theories and anecdotes, but they clearly need to be looked into.

As for food production, from what I have heard we produce enough food to feed 12 billion people and yet we have a population of 9 billion. What happens to the other 3 billion? Much of it goes to waste. I even heard of a place near las vegas that fed buffet scraps to hogs (though who knows what happened after covid). There are ways to feed livestock that doesn't involve feedlots and crop monocultures. People managed it in the past, and I believe it can be managed today

I do not believe that our climate crisis is caused entirely by animal husbandry. I think that our intensive mining for oil and other fossil fuels is the real problem, as those are non renewable resources and took millions of years to form. A cow will regenerate itself every few years. And a well managed cow will actually help sequester carbon.

The west doesn't necessarily need to eat less meat so much as it needs to eat less in general. Obesity rates are growing.

>>14972119

>>14934574
Depends on where you get them.
Factory farmed industrial meat is very different than regeneratively raised meat from small and/or holistic farms.

Stop thinking all farms are the same. You are an idiot and probably don't produce any food.