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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (10 children)

"Big Grass" truly runs the beef industry.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    So few cattle rely on by grass tho

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Depends on the country. Where I am it's virtually 100% grass fed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    If we turned all of global beef demand into grass-fed, we’d literally decimate our output because there’s not enough grazable land.

    Even land categorized as agriculturally grazable is often not realistically grazable (think mountains, etc)

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    We didn't domesticate corn. Corn domesticated us.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    we might even become corn, down to the molecules.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Fun fact: the Native Americans that originally created the various and sundry types of corn that we have called themselves, "Walking Maize People." We've analyzed their bones and found that the specific type of carbon that corn "tags" as its own ion, made up about 30-40% of the carbon in their bones, and presumably their bodies.

    Due to the fact that corn is added to almost everything that is in the US food chain, when similar analysis has been done to average US citizens, more like 60-70% of the carbon in our bodies comes from corn. We "paint" fruits and veggies with corn, we add corn as sugar to all soda, we add corn to some breads for no reason. We, the citizens of the US, are walking corn.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    The majority of US federal agriculture subsidies go to corn production, the majority of corn production is for live stock feed. Anybody who brings up spending that money on vegetables or basically anything other than corn gets silenced pretty quick

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