The smart way to do it is to put the cows thru the pasture, then move the cows to the next pasture and move chickens into the vacated pasture, add another distinct animal plus a fallow stage, rinse and repeat... for minimal feed expenses.

But instead we have land and labor at a premium, and to address that we build gigantic tortuous ultra-prisons to keep livestock in, and mix trucked-in grain with an overload of antibiotics to feed birds and mammals that are already wallowing in their own shit.

Outlawing the CAFO is probably the #1 most plausible and effectual policy for mitigating global environmental disaster.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago

But that would mean instead of raising wildly inefficient cattle so people can get their Texas mandated 5 kilos of beef per day, they might have to only have 1 kilo, and eat the rest as vegetables.