Ban Meat? Never!!!!!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dellinger63

a lot of land or 40 acres?

Sigh ... try to concentrate really hard on what I said. Yes, there are places where it does take, really, 40 acres for a cow. Yes, they are scrubby, bad places. I gave examples: west Texas (near Amarillo), eastern and north eastern New Mexico, etc. How do I know? I've been there, talked to the ranchers, etc. The high plains of western Kansas, eastern Colorado are different than Nebraska, the Dakotas, too.

And as I said, yes, there are other places where you can place alot of beef cattle on 40 acres - KY would be one, our grass is so lush cows gain weight by looking at it. As long as there is no drought.

My POINT was that we don't have enough land to free-range enough cattle to feed this country.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Sigh ... try to concentrate really hard on what I said. Yes, there are places where it does take, really, 40 acres for a cow.

So there actually is a rancher who has one cow per 40 acres? Or are you just trying to make the point a lot of land out west isn't suitable for grazing? The moon has a lot of acres too but not enough on the entire planet for even one cow, not to mention the lack of oxygen.

Incidentally most cows around here are supplemented with 'less than perfect' hay so in effect they are recycling what would have been left out to further mold and house rat nests. Next we'll be hearing pets are horrible because of all the resources used in the manufacturing of their food and that horrible gas Spot and Fluffy put out after being supplemented with table food. Hope that never happens.

Besides 'all natural / free-range' beef tastes gamy to me. Personally I wish we could make a effort to raise more Wagyu cows and bring down the cost of their meat, supperior to anything else.

[Danzig]

In the West, one cow and calf need an average of nearly 14 acres per month to feed themselves on arid public lands. In the East, the same cow-calf pair requires one-sixth of an acre of average private farmland for forage.


that was in an article about subsidizing grazing. and of course factory farming supplies our meat, just like factory farming supplies rice, corn, beans and our other produce. it's not as tho everyone is going to start having a small farm in their backyards.