Just eat less meat to reduce carbon emissions and let oil companies increase production. Everything is balance as it is.
“With no livestock to feed, the acreage now used to grow silage and hay could be replaced with food crops. Yet because higher value fruits and vegetables require quality soil, specific climate conditions, and ample water infrastructure, most of that land would be limited to growing calorie-heavy, hardy broad acre crops such as corn and soybeans — a system change that would add its own climate impacts.”
80% of America’s cropland is already growing corn and soybeans…for cattle! Hayfields would just continue being native or nonnative grasslands while the farms currently growing livestock feed could grow human food. Changing selfish, gluttonous people’s behavior is much more difficult than the logistics of changing food production.
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Just eat less meat to reduce carbon emissions and let oil companies increase production. Everything is balance as it is.
“With no livestock to feed, the acreage now used to grow silage and hay could be replaced with food crops. Yet because higher value fruits and vegetables require quality soil, specific climate conditions, and ample water infrastructure, most of that land would be limited to growing calorie-heavy, hardy broad acre crops such as corn and soybeans — a system change that would add its own climate impacts.”
80% of America’s cropland is already growing corn and soybeans…for cattle! Hayfields would just continue being native or nonnative grasslands while the farms currently growing livestock feed could grow human food. Changing selfish, gluttonous people’s behavior is much more difficult than the logistics of changing food production.