A message from the Anti-Beef Eaters

[wilagro]

I wonder how many people take this propaganda seriously.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/08/hamburger-meat-pollution/

[per]

Too many. The bright side though is that it is likely that the ones watching it are the converted. Unless already interested in the subject it is too long for the attention span of the average person now days.

[grassfarmer]

It was a strange mixture of fact and fiction. If they
had just told the story of the way industrial beef is
produced - the fuel used to grow the grain, make the
fertilizer, transport both as well as the cattle I would
have been broadly in agreement.
If they had separated out the fuel usage and
environmental pollution caused growing pork and
chicken the conventional way they would be able to
show the effect of these too meats in a true light also.
Afterall modern chickens/hogs spend their entire
lives on fossil fuel produced foods whereas your
average cow usually raises her calf to weaning on a
forage diet often on land fit for little else.

The nonsense like how much water is "used" to
produce beef is just stupid - it cycles through cattle
just as it does through humans and none is lost.
Wrong also to blame poor human diet choices on
cattle or the cattle industry.

I think on the issue of the gasses produced they have
a point with cattle that we can't deny. However the
effects can be reduced by using a more grass based
production model - something they hinted weakly at.