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letting a cow graze a field and killing it next year takes way less time than tilling and planting and fertilizing and watering and harvesting.
Did you miss '/s' or do you genuinely believe that?
Cause if it's the latter, you should go to your school and ask for a refund.
I don't think youve ever planted a field if you think I'm wrong
And I don't think you've ever considered the amount of food and water required for just a kilo of meat.
Hint: It's exponentially more than a kilo of veggies or grains.
you haven't been reading what I'm writing.
buy a cow. put it in a pasture. come back in 18 months.
OR
buy seed. till. plant. water. feed. harvest.
the time investment per calorie is vastly different.
Yeah good luck with that when 8 billion people start doing that. Moron.
the discussion is about effort, not scalability.
We've got machines for that stuff.
running machines still takes effort. letting a cow live doesn't.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most pastures also planted, fertilized, and watered? You're also assuming infinite land here - I don't know shit about farming, but the first google hit I got suggests that cows need about 1.8 acres of pasture per year.
1 cow, consuming 1.8 acres of land, produces on the scale of 0.5 to 1.4 million calories, according to this estimate
However farming produces up to 18 million calories per acre, so if you were growing potatoes you'd have 32 million calories. On the same land that produced up to 1.4 million calories via grazing cow.
if you ask a seed salesman whether you should buy his product for your pasture, he'll try to sell it to you. but no, for the most part pasture management is very low intensity: repair fences and deter predators. these have direct analogues in raising crops though in warding off pests that would eat the crops.
so? the work of lettin a cow eat what grows is still less work than planting, tending, and harvesting.
no. they're grasslands, and hilly terrain or rocky soil is a common feature of land designated as pastures because of the difficulty of working the land.
no, i'm not. i was comparing the work done to plant a field of potatoes against raising an equivalent amount of cattle. i'm making no sweeping policy proposals.
Great, in a vacuum, and assuming efficiency of land does not matter, you are correct in saying it takes less work to produce less calories.
not just in a vaccuum but literally any time you have the option to plant a field or put a cow in it, it will always be less work to put a cow in it.