I heard something to do with Nitrogen and …cow farts(?) I am really unsure of this and would like to learn more.

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  • Ethical reason for consuming animals
  • Methane produced by cows are a harmful greenhouse gas which is contributing to our current climate crisis
  • Health Reasons - there is convincing evidence that processed meats cause cancer
  • it takes a lot more calories of plant food to produce the calories we would consume from the meat.

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  • fkn
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    1 year ago

    ~This is false. Cows in the US are primarily fed corn. Not the can’t/won’t eat stuff.~

    Edit: I am wrong. They said only fed about 8% human edible grain.

      • fkn
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        11 year ago

        Not in industrial farms. There is no grass there. They don’t bring hay.

        It’s literally a sales pitch in the US to disambiguate corn fed and grass fed cattle.

        • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          11 year ago

          you just don’t know what you’re talking about. cattle are raised in the field and then finished on feed lots.

          grass fed just means that the cattle were only fed grass. but all cattle eat grass

          • fkn
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            11 year ago

            Only until they are weaned. Then onto the feed lot they go and corn they eat.

            • @commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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              01 year ago

              so you are now admitting that literally all cattle eat grass, but trying to pretend your akshully still right. I guess plenty of toxicity flowed off of reddit.