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I live in cattle ranch country and the cattle are well cared for and and free range all summer they live a good life and fart less then all the people in NYC eating them.
I live in cattle ranch country and the cattle are well cared for and and free range all summer they live a good life and fart less then all the people in NYC eating them.
This about resource consumption, land use, and sustainability.
Probably not, but it's still interesting. We are past the point (too many people) where videos can have enough of an impact to change the way society operates.
do you understand that prices are signals that are used to determine usage of resources? i.e. cheap, subsidized, price controlled water= waste, increased usage, misallocation
You need to educate yourself. Water is not the only resource or issue associated with meat production.
Cattle produce SIGNIFICANTLY MORE global greenhouse emission than ALL cars, trains, ships, airplanes combined. And, 91% of the deforestation OF the Amazon forest are used for agriculture. These are just a couple of the examples.
You are ignoring one major fact in the Amazon........most of the damage was done by illegal practices......NO damage is done by the cows themselves. Lies seem to travel faster than FACTS!
Why don't you ask the country in charge what they are doing........in America we don't have plowed under forest or ranchers not taking care of their cattle.
http://www.theguardian.com/environme...ased-one-third
The razing of forests is a major contributor to the emissions that drive climate change. Trees provide a vital store of carbon, as well as providing livelihoods for a billion people. But deforestation has more than doubled in Indonesia, Paraguay, Malaysia and Cambodia, largely due to illegal logging.
In the Amazon, the use of satellite data has helped the government slash deforestation by 80% since 2003-4 by allowing police to pinpoint illegal activity in the vast forest, which is bigger than western Europe. But the 5,800km2 in 2012-13 was a 28% increase on the record-low in the previous year.
Paulo Adario, leader of Greenpeace's Amazon campaign, said the spike was scandalous: "The government can't be surprised by this increase in deforestation, given that their own action is what's pushing it. The change in the Forest Code and the resulting amnesty for those who illegally felled the forest sent the message that such crimes have no consequences."
Brazil has demanded funding from rich nation's to cut deforestation and has been sensitive to criticism of its effort to develop and improve the living standards of its 200 million people. In 2009, the then president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said: "I don't want any gringo asking us to let an Amazon resident die of hunger under a tree. We want to preserve, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century ago."
We want to preserve, but they will have to pay the price for this preservation because we never destroyed our forest like they mowed theirs down a century ago."
Who mowed down their won tropical forest a century ago?
do you understand that prices are signals that are used to determine usage of resources? i.e. cheap, subsidized, price controlled water= waste, increased usage, misallocation
We need to increase meat prices or not subsidize these farms then. Or make them pay for medical expenses associated with eating too much meat.
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