Tm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agoHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caimagemessage-square75fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1imageHere’s How America Uses Its Land (2018)lemmy.caTm12@lemmy.ca to Data Is Beautiful@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square75fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 days agoif its alafalfa, i think alot of farm land are, its usually exported to the Middle east.
minus-squareA_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoVegans and ecologists have been talking about this exact issue for a while now
minus-squareElcaineVolta@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoliterally decades. lots of talk around the conditions that bring new pandemics too.
minus-squarePhytobus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 days agoIt simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
minus-squarekersploosh@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 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.
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.
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.
It simply takes a loooot of food to produce 1kg of beef
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.