vaccines, named for the French word for cow due to the first one invented being for cowpox, have truly come full circle. moo
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It's way simpler to just farm something other than cows. Plants, maybe.
Changing their diet works just as well and is probably cheaper.
If you want to vax your livestock, how about giving them a bird flu vaccine instead?
The methane released from cows is only one facet of their negative environmental impact associated with upscaled meat production.
Yeah this is just the meat/dairy industry version of what the electric car is to the car industry
It's insane how beef consumption never gets mentioned for global warming. Somehow straws got more attention than factory farmed beef. The straw problem solution was worse than the symptom. This planet is cooked literally and figuratively.
The straw thing was a manufactured distraction.
People are just big emotional children, and if you suggest they shouldn't eat so many burgers they don't evaluate the facts, pros, and cons. They have a feeling and then blame you. And probably go on about how vegans suck.
I'm not a vegan but I try to eat less meat because come on.
"Lalalala! I can't hear you with my hands over my ears and me talking about straws so loudly!"
Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug.
I recently had an exchange where the other person was trying to argue that meat consumption had nothing to do with production because production occures before consumption. I was talking to them for like a day but uh yeah. at that point I blocked them.
To an extent they're right but probably not in the way they intended to be. Government subsidies help ensure that animal ag can be profitable and incentivized regardless of consumption levels, and the ever-expanding amounts of land required for most animal ag and it's support infrastructure (eg feedstock production, a byproduct of industrial soy oil) literal fuel and are fueled by imperial expansion in a cyclic self-reinforcing fashion. If people stopped eating beef today without also protesting it's existence you'd probably see the animal ag industry continue to run on it's own fumes for years.
subsidies are one thing but I don't think its enough if it has to be thrown striaght into the trash.