• psud@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Worse than that. We could ban beef, have all the cows killed and the farms turned to national parks, but then deer would replace them and have exactly the same emissions

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      11 months ago

      Yeah, the deers living alone in the national parks, without trees or plants or any other biodiversity

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        11 months ago

        Cattle where I live aren’t on bare fields. Driving across three states over Christmas break out was wonderful moving out of wheat, barley, and hay growing areas to cattle and sheep raising areas.

        It went from fields of monoculture, to fields with various grasses, trees, shrubs

        It was fun trying to pick whether a distant field was spotted with sheep or shrubs (it was a long drive)

        It was usually both. Sheep are remarkably well camouflaged in a fairly natural grasslands

        The cows were usually resting in the shade of a tree, though one field the cows were lined up feeding on the grass in the straight shadow of the tower for a wind turbine

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          Grazing is terrible for local ecosystems and does harm the environment more than native populations of animals do. One of the reasons why is because humans ensure that a grazing herd faces as little predation as possible as well as providing cattle with care that native animals do not have