• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    You’ll get far more calories out of the field of potatoes than a field of cows,

    if the land is unsuitable for crop production, you can often still raise cattle on it.

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      1 year ago

      You still need to grow food to feed the cattle, if only for winter stock, so you have to find a fertile field to grow food stock, so that field could be used for growing crops and the field that’s unsuitable for anything else could just be, well not used. There’s absolutely no scenario where cattle are going to be more sustainable than crops.