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  Have your meat and eat it too

  I think your selection of statistics are unduly biased against meat consumption. What if I told you that you could increase topsoil by simply using the right ranching practices? What if the soil kept getting richer and richer because you raised livestock on it? What if you could do all this while using only a minute amount of energy? The energy require may be low enough that the thriving vegetation might actually make the whole operation a net carbon sink. If you could get all this would you still be advocating a meat-free economy?

  If you read the Omnivore's Dilemma, it talks about a new way of raising cattle/pigs/chickens that involves aggressively rotating different animals through a pasture in specific orders to promote soil enrichment. Over time the topsoil layer actually gets thicker. Since these cows are grass fed not corn fed the only fossil fuels used are those used to in providing electricity to their electrical moving fence (which could be powered by non-fossil fuel based ways) (FYI, corn is a fossil fuel intensive crop).On 'Greenland used to be green'--Don't judge a book by its cover, much less a land by its name posted 2 years ago 23 Responses