Should Domestic Cows Be Taken Off Welfare?
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As far back as 2006, we've known that cattle farming is responsible for at least 18% of the world's greenhouse gases - particularly methane, which can be up to 50 times as potent as carbon dioxide - and that the damage is expected to double within the next fifty years. There are currently 1.5 billion cows on earth covering 30% of the world's entire land surface. Rather than contributing to the ecosystem, they're a bane on the biosphere as a whole.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
As they exist now, they're not even natural. They're an aberration and an abomination, the product of generations upon generations of specialized breeding and hormone treatment; a ghastly affront to the very fabric of reality.
But what have we done about it? Nothing really. Americans continue to raise cattle because of our love for beef, but can we really afford to maintain (let alone expand) this booming industry even as the climate situation continues to deteriorate? Maybe we don't have to kill literally every single cow on Earth, but enough that we would no longer be able to use them as a staple. And of course there are other alternatives that could easily provide for both our milk and meat needs. One thing remains certain, approximately 90% of the cattle population will need to be culled off eventually regardless of how it will affect cattle farmers or the Hindu nation. We must, I repeat must, eradicate the bovine menace.
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/news/2006/1000448/index.html
...herds cause wide-scale land degradation, with about 20 percent of pastures considered as degraded through overgrazing, compaction and erosion. This figure is even higher in the drylands where inappropriate policies and inadequate livestock management contribute to advancing desertification.
The livestock business is among the most damaging sectors to the earth’s increasingly scarce water resources, contributing among other things to water pollution, euthropication and the degeneration of coral reefs.
As they exist now, they're not even natural. They're an aberration and an abomination, the product of generations upon generations of specialized breeding and hormone treatment; a ghastly affront to the very fabric of reality.
But what have we done about it? Nothing really. Americans continue to raise cattle because of our love for beef, but can we really afford to maintain (let alone expand) this booming industry even as the climate situation continues to deteriorate? Maybe we don't have to kill literally every single cow on Earth, but enough that we would no longer be able to use them as a staple. And of course there are other alternatives that could easily provide for both our milk and meat needs. One thing remains certain, approximately 90% of the cattle population will need to be culled off eventually regardless of how it will affect cattle farmers or the Hindu nation. We must, I repeat must, eradicate the bovine menace.
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Genocide of an entire species is rarely the solution to any of lifes problems. If it worked we could just vote to wipe ourselves out and prevent quite a few ecological disasters. Hell we do not even know what the long term ecological effects of such a tasty cow slaughter would be.
To answer your question no, it is better we kill them at a sustainable rate for their tasty, tasty, meat shells than to wipe them all out and force future generations to live without the glory that is beef.
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Stunning.
so to answer your question: no
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This is all the compelling evidence I need to answer no.
In short, it will never happen unless cattle farming becomes too costly in a monetary sense. Besides, I smell PETA behind any attempt dismantling the cattle industry.
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They also produce quite a bit of methane.
Hmmmmm
Problem is that a lot of modern recipes are centred around disposing of large quantities of artificially cheapened products like corn and beef, so lots of people don't even really know how not to live on steak.
Tell that to Power lifters, body builders and other athletes.
Is that an accurate number? Is it even close?
by golly if we can make spider-goat hybrids that can create bulletproof vests (absolutely true statement) then we should be able to make cows that produce less methane
That's all I have to contribute right now.
While visiting Japan a friend of mine was able to sample whale sashimi. He claims that it is indeed delicious.
Also, no, because cows are delicious.
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I'm not a PETA fucknut but if any of this is true (see the link to the film below) I'm not really going to be able to stomach a dolphin steak or whatever...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/independent/thecove/
A) Higher quality tastier meats
I love a good burger, steak, roast, you name it - if it came from a cow I like it... get rid of high-density feed lots and I'd like it even more.
*cue image of Troy Mclure "taste testing" the beef in a high density feed lot "mmm, just right"*
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I was at a methane reclaimation plant a few weeks ago where they take methane from a near-by landfill and use it to power generators. Pretty cool stuff.
A dolphin fish steak - that's mahi mahi. not dolphin.
We are.
Many dairy farms are, or are nearly, producing 100% of their energy needs from methane digesters.
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May I humbly suggest a combo-solution to both these issues. Step 1: Get the cows off the land and into factory farms. No more overgrazing, compacting, or erosion. Step 2: Capture methane from the cows for power generation, which is easy once they are indoors. Problem solved, no?
Once again, factory farming is helping us build a sustainable future.
I'd be content with cows going away once synmeat production picks up.
See, problem solved! And it only took two pages!
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However, advocating the extinction of an entire species to stop this instead of just changing the practice to be far less harmful is insane.
It's bad enough when you take a shit on a road trip and the rest stop is using that one-ply sandpaper, surely you're not expecting people to scratch their brown eye with a fucking seashell. o_O
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I might've made "some" of that up.
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I'd be interested in seeing how organic, free-range cattle compare to feed-lot cattle in terms of environmental impact.
Because cows are delicious.
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