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HOW MUCH GRAIN AND WATER DOES IT TAKE TO PRODUCE 1 POUND OF MEAT?

We are breeding cows on cow farms just to produce meat for food and can't let go?.

  1. It takes 2.5 pounds of grain [agfoundation.org]
  2. It takes 1,799 gallons of water (compared to the water footprint of soybeans is 216 gallons; of corn is 108 gallons) [google.com]

A single cow on average produces between 70 and 120 kg of methane per year (and, worldwide, there are about 1.5 billion cattle).

Any phony environmentalist here who loves eating meat?

St-Sinner 9 Mar 6
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Without cows pray tell what are we going to do with all the grass on highly erodible land which is unsuitable for farming? Humans have been eating meat for thousands of years and and will likely continue to do so regardless of what the environmentalist’s think. Hell everyone should enjoy a good ribeye steak at least once a week!

My beef is with the phony, two-mouthed, two-faced, contradicting, do-not-understand-full-issue and half-baked-knowledge-holding, hypocrite environmentalists, and not with who say I love beef and environment is not the highest priority of the world (above hunger, poverty, infant mortality). That honesty is in fact admirable.

Environment is what to the have-time-on-hands and comfortable Western world wacos as what golf is to rich people. Both fancy people who are out of touch with the world reality.

If you will ever visit India, don't say "I eat cows". Lol

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I love this post I do care about environment but I dearly love beef its a conflict

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For once i agree with you. Haven't eaten red meat in decades, and the doc says I'm in great shape for my age. People eat too much red meat. The world needs to change. Better for people, better for planet.

Ps. When people eat 'rare' steak in restaurants, in plates of blood, i feel like throwing up. Reminds me of those Apes in 2001 A Space Oddessy.

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I love a good steak

me too or a good hamburger yum and I know its better to eat meatless couple of days a week we all should it would make a diff but the ranchers and dairy and chicken farms ...pork too all push for bigger farms more profit and more, more, more ...... what happened to being satisfied to make a decent living ...not getting richer and richer just to be rich

@whiskywoman I have a lot of good meatless recipes that I do use, I'm more an everything in moderation sort. But for a celebration or just sometimes it sounds good....I want a good steak or lobster!

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We should be eating each other...

yes we should

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Those are called "cattle ranches". "Cow Farms" are Not a thing...there are dairy cows which produce milk, cream, butter, cheese and veal, and those females live quite a few years until becoming dog food. And cattle ranches which is where meat comes from. They both eat mostly grass, it's "in" right now, rather than grain. They do eat corn, in winter especially, Not sweet corn like you eat, either. (High-starch long-keeping as "sillage".)
IF you are going to make these statements it would be good to do 5 minutes of research so you can at least fake knowing what you are talking about........

My research is the links I gave. Read the articles.

@St-Sinner i grew up on a dairy farm..."cow farms" would make both a dairyman& a cattle rancher laugh their asses off...repeat, no such thing! Your sources are hardly to be trusted since they Clearly don't know squat on the subject, at a minimum they could learn the correct term(s)!
BTW I Had to call my brothers & use the term"cow farm",we too enjoyed a hearty laugh! And I repeat, "grass fed" is now the gold standard for feeding both dairy cows & cattle! Ranchers get more/you pay more per pound for beef labeled "grass-fed beef", vs. grain-fattened, now considered low-class & not as healthy, which you can see for yourself at any good meat counter.

you are right but so is he it takes many of our resources to raise cattle and the systems we use for chickens and hogs may not be the best way
I do homeschool with my autistic grandson and its a recent topic ...we are taking more and more forest and converting for ranching and that brings unfamiliar animals into contact with each other and with us and is a great breeding ground for this pandemic and for many in the future ...plus the affect on our climate
I love meat but we need to make changes in how we grow and produce food ...and how we control population

I’ve never fed my cows corn during the winter. Corn is something that’s generally only fed to cattle in feedlots during the final finishing phase. I supplement my cows with hay mostly alfalfa during the winter. Also I stock light enough that there is still plenty of dry grass remaining for them to eat during the winter months

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Careful, Trajan's going come on to this post and attack you for attacking his cows. By the by, his cows are more intelligent than he is in my opinion. IMO. Lol

Is he from India? Lol

@St-Sinner

No Oklahoma. Lol

Cows in India

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