Bye bye MEAT! How will the post-meat future look?

[CNT36]

This all brings us back to shit farms.

 

[8ball]

 

[WouldBe]

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Good source of fertilizer.

 

[8ball]

This made me lol:

Remainers go plant-based and Leavers stick with meat as food becomes the latest culture war

Henry Dimbleby urged Britons to cut meat intake to save the planet - but he's mostly swaying Labour voters so far, a poll shows

inews.co.uk

 

[Serene]

 

[8ball]

Doesn't seem to work when I look at it.

 

[WouldBe]

Morrisons are doing a trial feeding seaweed supplements to cattle that can cut methane production by up to 80%.

 

[8ball]

Morrisons are doing a trial feeding seaweed supplements to cattle that can cut methane production by up to 80%.

Was reading about seaweed - seems a lot can be farmed sustainably and some varieties have B12 in them, so also good for feeding humans directly (well, good anyway, but makes a nice vegan B12 source too).
Then again, I'm Welsh and love a bit of laverbread. Some of the Saesneg can be a bit weird about it.

 

[ddraig]

Morrisons are doing a trial feeding seaweed supplements to cattle that can cut methane production by up to 80%.

link?

 

[8ball]

link?

Look, I know you must be lacking in energy a bit, but I just Googled "Morrisons seaweed trial cows" and it came right up.
I didn't even spell it right.

 

[WouldBe]

link?

Ceefax

 

[Spymaster]

Look, I know you must be lacking in energy a bit ...

 

[8ball]

Was naughty, but I've been having a vegan day* so am feeling the smugness.
* - aside from milk in tea

 

[WouldBe]

Was naughty, but I've been having a vegan day* so am feeling the smugness.
* - aside from milk in tea

Is taking the piss vegan?

 

[Spymaster]

I've been having a vegan day ...

You've been telling everyone you meet that they shouldn't eat meat?

 

[ddraig]

Look, I know you must be lacking in energy a bit, but I just Googled "Morrisons seaweed trial cows" and it came right up.
I didn't even spell it right.

Why would I be lacking energy? You're the fuckIng troll not thIs thread btw, dIck

 

[8ball]

You've been telling everyone you meet that they shouldn't eat meat?

That would be with a capital 'V'.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I've been having a vegan day

Took you long enough to tell us

 

[Funky_monks]

Morrisons are doing a trial feeding seaweed supplements to cattle that can cut methane production by up to 80%.

That's great, but most of agricultural emissions of methane come from rice paddies.....

 

[Saul Goodman]

That's great, but most of agricultural emissions of methane come from rice paddies.....

Whataboutery = inadmissible.

 

[WouldBe]

That's great, but most of agricultural emissions of methane come from rice paddies.....

I know but every little helps.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I know but every little helps.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's great, but most of agricultural emissions of methane come from rice paddies.....

Er cows are the #1 agricultural source of methane

 

[Jeff Robinson]

That's great, but most of agricultural emissions of methane come from rice paddies.....

That may be true in terms of total methane emissions, but when you consider methane emissions per kilo of food product, beef is in a league of its own:

 

[WouldBe]

That may be true in terms of total methane emissions,

It's total amount of shit we dump in the atmosphere that counts though.

 

[8ball]

It's total amount of shit we dump in the atmosphere that counts though.

True, though you lose a lot more of the food supply from, say, cutting rice production in half than by cutting beef production by three quarters.

 

[Funky_monks]

It's total amount of shit we dump in the atmosphere that counts though.

Also, the methane cycle is a thing that has existed since ruminants. The global cattle herd is falling in number and has been for some time, half the world relies on rice for basic nutrition.

Perhaps we ought to be looking at all of the other atmospheric sources of methane that are not natural?

 

[Funky_monks]

True, though you lose a lot more of the food supply from, say, cutting rice production in half than by cutting beef production by three quarters.

You won't lose any by cutting beef production if other ruminants then take up that space within the environment, wild or farmed.

You'd have to also have a cull of wild ruminants that encroached on those spaces (in the UK that would probably be deer)

 

[8ball]

You won't lose any by cutting beef production if other ruminants then take up that space within the environment, wild or farmed.

You'd have to also have a cull of wild ruminants that encroached on those spaces (in the UK that would probably be deer)

I don’t think the massive intensive feedlots in the States and Brazil would spontaneously fill up with a similar density of ruminants. Especially the rainforest areas.

 

[Funky_monks]

I don’t think the massive intensive feedlots in the States and Brazil would spontaneously fill up with a similar density of ruminants. Especially the rainforest areas.

Animals are only finished in feedlots - ranched beef tends to be suckler based, so will be at grass for a lot of it's life.

But equally, the land area used to support them in terms of grass for hay/silage etc (I know a finishers diet is also made up of grains) should also not support ruminants to make the reduction meaningful