I've worked on farms and saying that the best possible farm practices are representative of the meat industry as a whole is unfair, given that these farms produce hardly any of the meat consumed. Your argument about salad is illogical, one cow eats 26lbs of "salad" a day. 90 million acres of land in the US is devoted to corn all machine harvested, with most of the crop going to livestock feed. 70% of the deforested land in Brazil is used for pasture and livestock feed is grown on much of the rest. You're criticizing vegans for eating salad while ignoring all the food that cows need to grow to adulthood.... thats whack. Nice cognitive dissonance you got there.
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I did not say they were representative.
Cows raised in pastures eat plant life that we cannot eat, and should not destroy. Feeding cows soy and corn wastes 90% of that cropland. If those lands were returned to pasturage we could grow (judging by the bison that lived on that land before, and by the measured return in the recent pastured grass fed beef studies) TWICE as much beef without reducing the acreage reserved for human vegetables. Never mind all the problems soy and corn cause, which need to be treated with antibiotics and other drugs.
I understand your point of view, having lived it for 30 years, but the new science disputes your position.
Wow so ignorant, are you seriously using pre-colonial america levels of bison as your reference? I dont even... your "new science" is bollocks, the stats are all there you just need to open your eyes. you're using a Utopian vision of all grass fed to argue against the hard reality. Believe lies if it helps you sleep at night and have fun eating corpses just dont try to tell me youre doing the moral thing or I'm gonna call BS.
OK dude, don't try to understand. I get that it bothers you. Goodbye, have fun.