• TronBronson@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    hasn’t even been 300 years since we had giant herds of buffalo roaming this country. We removed mega fauna and replaced it with a different species.

    I really think that’s methane stat is exaggerated because it pretends like the planet wasn’t covered in cows before we started killing everything.

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      2 days ago

      It likely wasn’t. Everyone eating meat is a relatively new phenomenon

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        1 day ago

        There are a lot of really interesting opinions here on this sub. Anthropologists must come together and renounce their evidence of ancient hunting practices and accept what ever your opinion is. Got it. Everyones an environmental scientist/ agricultural expert/ anthropologist on here.

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        2 days ago

        Right… elk, buffalo and deer are all prolific grazers. Cows do have a higher impact on the land as they are not natural. That’s why greed is the real issue here. The bad farming practices are greed based.

        I’m in a state that sustainable harvests deer to manage the population. We consume the meat and everything. We sustainable harvests cows too! Unlike those disgusting feedlots in central California we have happy cows.