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Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
There are environmental benefits.....
And I do my bit otherwise and I quite like meat !
There are environmental benefits.....
And I do my bit otherwise and I quite like meat !
Mudsticks makes an interesting point. Properly managed, meat production can have some upsides, particularly for soil quality. Conversely, intensive crop production with no rotation, no years laying fallow, and chemical fertilisers is turning the soil to biologically dead dust, which isn't exactly giving the environment a warm cuddle itself. Indeed, the UN's food and Agriculture department calculate the worlds topsoil will be gone in about 60 years - some properly managed cows pooing on them would actually be quite welcome.
Ah, that new Cadbury's beef chocolate? A cow and a half in every half pound.I'm reducing my meat consumption to virtually zero and am making up for it by eating loads of chocolate.
Given that it's dairy milk that I'm addicted to.....I haven't really thought this through, have IAh, that new Cadbury's beef chocolate? A cow and a half in every half pound.
Less important but still a factor, land can support sheep that couldn't support anything else. You can't grow organic carrots on a bleak dales hillside.Mudsticks makes an interesting point. Properly managed, meat production can have some upsides, particularly for soil quality. Conversely, intensive crop production with no rotation, no years laying fallow, and chemical fertilisers is turning the soil to biologically dead dust, which isn't exactly giving the environment a warm cuddle itself. Indeed, the UN's food and Agriculture department calculate the worlds topsoil will be gone in about 60 years - some properly managed cows pooing on them would actually be quite welcome.