[jtdev]

Good luck growing legumes on the acreage currently used for beef production… you can hardly walk much less tractor incredible expanses of this land. Beef cattle very efficiently convert the grasses on these lands into healthy, nutritious food for humans.

It’s terrifying to realize how many of the people trying to influence food production have little if any practical knowledge of how farming actually works. People are going to starve to death en mass if your ilk have your way.

[youngtaff]

Something like 3/4 of the world's soya production goes into animal feed and plenty of it into cattle feed

[woodruffw]

Does any country in the developed world produce any significant share of its beef from grassland grazing? The US certainly doesn’t.

[InvaderFizz]

Do you have any data for this? The only source[0] I have been able to find easily with numbers says about 30% of beef is non-factory farmed.

For every other meat type, it's overwhelmingly factory farmed (98%+).

0: https://www.sentienceinstitute.org/us-factory-farming-estima...

[woodruffw]

That is, admittedly, a lot higher than I was expecting! But 70% is still a sizeable majority. Moving the entire industry to grassland feeding would likely result in a fundamental upwards shift in how beef is priced, one that I suspect the GP would be unwilling to accept.

[coffeemig]

>your ilk

I didn’t say I was excited about it. But, the way things have been going lately, it wouldn’t be a surprise.