Doctors Malone, thank you 😊 for the reminder of how important it is for us to be more self-sufficient, especially during our uncertain times.
I understand that we need to be more prepared. I'm not a vegetarian. I just can't bring myself to raise and then kill my little chicks, calves, lambs or goats 🐐 .
Doctors Malone, thank you 😊 for the reminder of how important it is for us to be more self-sufficient, especially during our uncertain times.
I understand that we need to be more prepared. I'm not a vegetarian. I just can't bring myself to raise and then kill my little chicks, calves, lambs or goats 🐐 .
I respect your choices. One thing to consider: plant agriculture does kill many times more than animal agriculture. Countless small animals (moles, mice, rabbits, etc., as well as deer, not to mention thousands or more worms and insects) are killed per acre of tilled land. Hence pesticides for example,;aside from what the machinery takes out and the deliberate killing of deer and other animals. On the other hand, a person who eats only beef, will account for one, maybe two deaths a year. Unfortunately, there is no eating without killing. Also - the sustainable environment is ruminant animals on natural grassland, which is what the Great Plains were, for example, for millennia (80 to 100 million bison, roughly equal to the current US cattle herd). It's now over 99% cultivated for crops, the topsoil has been reduced from several feet to inches, and has only a few dozen seasons left in it.
Well, we can talk about killing animals as a bad thing, but the fact is if we don't kill them something else will and in a heck of a lot less humane way.
Agreed. Everything living is always eaten, by larger or smaller organisms. Cows get the most humane treatment of about any animal. Rather that than prey in the wild.
Doctors Malone, thank you 😊 for the reminder of how important it is for us to be more self-sufficient, especially during our uncertain times.
I understand that we need to be more prepared. I'm not a vegetarian. I just can't bring myself to raise and then kill my little chicks, calves, lambs or goats 🐐 .
I'm in a predicament
I respect your choices. One thing to consider: plant agriculture does kill many times more than animal agriculture. Countless small animals (moles, mice, rabbits, etc., as well as deer, not to mention thousands or more worms and insects) are killed per acre of tilled land. Hence pesticides for example,;aside from what the machinery takes out and the deliberate killing of deer and other animals. On the other hand, a person who eats only beef, will account for one, maybe two deaths a year. Unfortunately, there is no eating without killing. Also - the sustainable environment is ruminant animals on natural grassland, which is what the Great Plains were, for example, for millennia (80 to 100 million bison, roughly equal to the current US cattle herd). It's now over 99% cultivated for crops, the topsoil has been reduced from several feet to inches, and has only a few dozen seasons left in it.
Not to mention all the acreage bought up and now at the discretion of Gates and the CCP.
I know
I'm just a sissy!
Ha - no, you're very gracious about it all, really.
Well, we can talk about killing animals as a bad thing, but the fact is if we don't kill them something else will and in a heck of a lot less humane way.
Agreed. Everything living is always eaten, by larger or smaller organisms. Cows get the most humane treatment of about any animal. Rather that than prey in the wild.
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