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<blockquote data-quote="Rydero" data-source="post: 1570953" data-attributes="member: 38101"><p>This took a dark turn. I don't know of a big percentage of people around me moving away from animal protein do any of you? I'm not talking a couple of people you know but how many in a hundred? 2-3? How many people you know aren't grossed out by synthetic protein? Look around what's actually happening rather than what you're being told is happening. Read up on fake meat and they don't even know what it'll cost and people are already arguing it may not be any more efficient as far as carbon pollution is concerned because they aren't producing it on an industrial scale yet. Frankly I've never understood beef being the least environmentally friendly option for animal protein. Beef can be produced without grain if need be, eating grass that humans can't subsist on, on land that isn't suitable to grow vegetables or crops. Of the animal protein sources beef would have the easiest time adapting to a cleaner more natural system of production. Most cow/calf producers (around here anyway) already operate for the most part under a grass based system. Most of the talking head environmentalists aren't farmers - how do they plan to fertilize their edible bean/vegetable crops without animal manure? Synthetic fertilizer makes a lot of carbon pollution to manufacture. Ideals are fantastic until someone has to actually go hungry for them. As far as fear of people leaving the industry is concerned - a few left standing? Sounds like a monopoly or close to it - monopolies are strong not weak, they can dictate the price. Maybe not such a bad thing for people to consume less beef/animal protein per person if there's less producers, which can happen through retirements. An expensive traditional delicacy is a good product to be selling from my perspective. I think the reason we don't see a lot of action in the industry right now is the "threats" are by and large just talk right now, not much is actually happening and the machine is moving along. When change is needed it'll happen and beef is well positioned.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rydero, post: 1570953, member: 38101"] This took a dark turn. I don't know of a big percentage of people around me moving away from animal protein do any of you? I'm not talking a couple of people you know but how many in a hundred? 2-3? How many people you know aren't grossed out by synthetic protein? Look around what's actually happening rather than what you're being told is happening. Read up on fake meat and they don't even know what it'll cost and people are already arguing it may not be any more efficient as far as carbon pollution is concerned because they aren't producing it on an industrial scale yet. Frankly I've never understood beef being the least environmentally friendly option for animal protein. Beef can be produced without grain if need be, eating grass that humans can't subsist on, on land that isn't suitable to grow vegetables or crops. Of the animal protein sources beef would have the easiest time adapting to a cleaner more natural system of production. Most cow/calf producers (around here anyway) already operate for the most part under a grass based system. Most of the talking head environmentalists aren't farmers - how do they plan to fertilize their edible bean/vegetable crops without animal manure? Synthetic fertilizer makes a lot of carbon pollution to manufacture. Ideals are fantastic until someone has to actually go hungry for them. As far as fear of people leaving the industry is concerned - a few left standing? Sounds like a monopoly or close to it - monopolies are strong not weak, they can dictate the price. Maybe not such a bad thing for people to consume less beef/animal protein per person if there's less producers, which can happen through retirements. An expensive traditional delicacy is a good product to be selling from my perspective. I think the reason we don't see a lot of action in the industry right now is the "threats" are by and large just talk right now, not much is actually happening and the machine is moving along. When change is needed it'll happen and beef is well positioned. [/QUOTE]
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