(pls don't bombard me with questions on "but what if I'm poor" lemme just stop you rn by saying 1) I am poor, so 2) no I don't buy grassfed and 3) diet's really not *that* important for your health, compared to getting enough sleep & therapy)
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(I'm out here to talk B2B farm systems, not tell ppl what to eat however the "food press" is mostly camouflage for food commercials so now anytime you talk food systems, ppl assume you're telling them what to eat.)
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3. Giving Crop Land A Break By Turning It Into Pasture For A Year Or Two Is Good Science. http://nfrec.ifas.ufl.edu/sod-rotation/
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So the ol' "livestock is a bad way to raise protein bc 90% of what the cow eats doesn't turn into meat" concept is technically true, and deeply flawed. That 90% that doesn't turn into meat? Turns into soil.
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Meanwhile, growing grain and/or legume crops* on a piece of land for year after year after year is INCREDIBLY destructive to the soil. You're basically mining out the nutrients & organic matter. *to be known as "row crops" hereafter since that's what ag calls them
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You can't do that forever. What's that mean? IT'S UNSUSTAINABLE No coincidence that all societies that did vegetarianism, were in river valleys that flooded every year. That's the ONLY way you can get away with mining the soil like that- when it gets a free top-up every year.
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"What if you rebuild the soil by doing a cover crop between row crops?" Great idea! Let's build on it: have cows eat the cover crop. 90% of the green manure still becomes soil, plus you get animal protein. Congrats! We just reinvented crop/pasture rotations!
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Row crops grown the year after the field's in pasture for 1 yr can yield up to 2x as they would have otherwise.
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In other words: you can take a field out of row crops for human consumption for a year & raise pastured livestock on it. Then it grows so much more row crop the next year, you get *more* food than you would have if you'd just raised row crops for human consumption each year.
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This whole "you can feed more people with plants-only diets" is what happens when you look at stats from 1-year yields and completely ignore what happens when you try to repeat it year after year.
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