Reply #9: I suspect it rather depends how it done [View All]

[Dead_Parrot]

At one end of the scale is this guy:



Who would have to seriously insane to give up the sheep and try to get a combine harvester down that hill. On the other end of the scale...



Hacking down forest to grow soy or maize to feed to cattle in boxes half a planet away is the very essence of numb-fuckery.

Somewhere in the middle are systems like 4-field rotation, where the livestock are an integral part of the (fossil-fertilizer free) care of the land: Unfortunately, this doesn't feed as many people, or make as much money, as screwing the Earth 'til you're blue in the face.