The two main kinds of agriculture were grain-dominated stationary & nomadic pastoral. Over several centuries preceding & during the industrial revolution, some regions of northwestern Europe developed a third kind of ag that combined the best of each: stationary pastoralism. /1
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Replying to @NickSzabo4
I’m just looking to understand in this tweet storm why in Argentina we have railroads by the British, cows and milk, but no good cheese.
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Replying to @emivelazquez6
Do you cows descend from British or Spanish cows?
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Replying to @NickSzabo4
Always thought that it was something related to war, since we didn’t need to rationalize food so much (just without researching anything) but interested on your takepic.twitter.com/r7R65zeNVi
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Replying to @emivelazquez6
I imagine several factors: * Less lactase persistence leads to more beef & less dairy * Hard cheese is generally a northern rather than Mediterranean tradition, based on their cows lactation cycle * Refrigeration made hard cheese less necessary
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Replying to @NickSzabo4 @emivelazquez6
@TokenHash British vs. Argentine vs. Spanish pastoral agriculture?1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @NickSzabo4 @emivelazquez6
16th to 18th centuries Buenos Aires colonizers lived off hunting (yes hunting! a.k.a. 'vaquerías') the originally Spanish cattle the conquistadores brought from southern Spain.
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By the 19th century with fencing and more British influence (Argentina was part of the commonwealth), then refrigerated ships between Arg and UK, the cattle migrated to nearly totally english (Shorthorn, Hereford), Scottish (Aberdeen Angus), and Dutch cattle for milk (Holstein).
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Thanks! So the lack of hard cheese may be mostly down to having more emphasis on beef and less on dairy, combined with refrigeration (much less need for it) and it being a business with trade secrets that are hard to copy. For hard cheese stay north, for steak Argentina!
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