Subject: RE: Green New Deal Originally posted by dmiller5Originally posted by Left BrainLet's say 20 inches of rain in a year on 100 acres. That's estimated to be 54,000,000 gallons. Let's use your 100 cattle on 100 acres....standard rule is 50 cow/calf pairs for every 2 acres. (of course that's considering good ground.....much land will support less, for sure) Let's say 400 lbs. per head of cattle......you need 72,000,000 gallons. We're 18,000,000 gallons short IF EVERY DROP WENT TO THE CATTLE for food and water. And BTW - the avg. weight of a steer to slaughter is about 1100-1200 lbs....which yields about 500 lbs. of meat. Uh, yeah......................No. LOL Statistics..........make 'em say whatever you want......just don't try to tell me it takes 720,000 gallons of water to raise 500 lbs of trimmed, boneless meat from a cow....that's complete and total bullchit....prolly made up by somebody who doesn't eat meat and saw a cow one time in a John Wayne movie while eating tofu popcorn, and believed by people who get their news from twitter. The world is a better place when people just eat, and stop trying to figure out how their food is somehow bad for them and their environment. divide by 3 lb, its total water, not water per year. and go do some research i guess on how much water a cow consumes, and on how much water is needed to grow the food it consumes. Bro......it's water.....it's not going to stop falling out of the sky. LOL And Dave.....you need to spend some time around folks who raise cattle......it DOES NOT take 3 years to get to market. Most will get there in 12-18 months....that's with 4-6 months in a feed lot. 36 months is the WAY OUTSIDE end of the time range....that's for completely grass fed cattle that don't have good grass. If you're really worried about the water.....eat veal. The calves can barely move as they are "raised"......and they get slaughtered in as little as 3-4 months. Sooooooo tender, and you save water!!! Like I said.....I'm only half-arsed in this discussion. I'm not arguing over the food I enjoy eating. Eating is one of life's greatest pleasures.....and good beef is WAY up the list of food for me. Edited by Left Brain 2019-02-07 12:22 PM
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