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Old Wed, Oct-11-17, 15:35
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I see it as more vegan BS. Which is virtually unlimited.
Vegans eat primarily livestock fodder, so it is no surprise they are full of BS.
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Old Wed, Oct-11-17, 20:22
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Vegans eat primarily livestock fodder, so it is no surprise they are full of BS.


That's a good one Deirda!! LOL

I too always say that they eat livestock feed but the problem is they don't have 6 stomachs or chew their cud.
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Old Thu, Oct-12-17, 15:50
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A segment of the video below explains that it is the granola heads that have destroyed the environment. It made me rethink the intense conflict between the cattle ranchers and "sod busters" in the 1800's.

Skip to 42:54 for the environment part.

Dr. Gary Fettke: The Role of Nutrition in Everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_...1&v=ctkvriSwX8I
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Old Mon, Nov-13-17, 21:30
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I found this commentary on the site "Civil Eats". I think it is fairly balanced.

https://civileats.com/2017/11/13/is...ts-complicated/

Glenn now in Florida
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Old Tue, Nov-14-17, 07:11
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https://civileats.com/2017/11/13/is...ts-complicated/
her team’s findings—and the accompanying assertion that reduced meat consumption is the only way for us to meet global climate goals—have nevertheless sparked strong responses, both positive and negative.

People get very upset when reality takes away their identity.
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Old Tue, Nov-14-17, 13:23
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Beyond the global warming issue, it is particularly sad that the sod busters have moved all of our nutrient-rich top soil into the ocean in an attempt to feed the world with grains. Good news for fertilizer manufacturers.
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Old Tue, Nov-14-17, 17:44
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You do realize of course that for every calorie of beef we eat 10 calories of grain must be grown? A vegie diet is much, much less damaging to the environment.
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Old Tue, Nov-14-17, 19:36
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So wouldn't that make one hundred percent grass fed beef more desirable than grain/corn fed? I've seen cattle grazing in places not suitable to grow grain or crops for human use.
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Old Wed, Nov-15-17, 06:30
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It's not clear to me that grass fed beef (GFB) consume that much less energy. Since GFB is more expensive, my educated guess is that there are hidden energy costs that add up to the GFB at least being the same, if not more, energy intensive.

In other words, there's no free lunch. (I crack myself up.)
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Old Wed, Nov-15-17, 07:46
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Agendas abound in this "discussion" that are driving recommendations that are not fully scientifically based whether it's dietary or climate. The argument will never be settled on either front until a coercive event occurs. In the dietary category, the ongoing epidemics should be a coercive event, but they're explained away by those with a different agenda. We may have a majority of "scientists" on either side who think it's no more than a voting matter. Very naive and harmful. If we think that the pure scientific method is still alive, embraced, and in practice, we are also very naive.

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Old Wed, Nov-15-17, 09:23
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It's not clear to me that grass fed beef (GFB) consume that much less energy. Since GFB is more expensive, my educated guess is that there are hidden energy costs that add up to the GFB at least being the same, if not more, energy intensive.

In other words, there's no free lunch. (I crack myself up.)


It might just come down to edible grass having less energy density per area than cattlefeed. So it's more land intensive. The question is, can enough beef be raised by grass-feed to constitute a very significant portion of the human diet? I think there's always a place for it, because there's always going to be some land that's most useful for grazing.
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Old Wed, Nov-15-17, 16:27
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Good point. Also pigs and chickens have a very low carbon impact when they eat farm scraps. Waste not, pollute not.

It's exactly those kind of "what if's" that make me just want to use the general rule of thumb that more expensive things take more energy to make. For instance to keep the land costs down, it may be that commercial GFB farmers use more farm hands. Farm hands mean more cars to get to and from work, energy intensive beef eaten on the side, more home heating and cooling, etc. etc. etc. Maybe they use oat straw in the winter and that means farm equipment to cut and bundle the straw.... and on and on and on...
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