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fkn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

No… No… The studies account for that. Most cattle in the US are fed human quality base ingredient feed… It’s much cheaper to feed them corn meal than anything else. (I say base ingredient because the standard on cattle feed as a whole is not human grade, but the bulk of the food, the corn, could be human grade if it had been processed for humans instead of cattle.)

The water numbers are pretty well understood.

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commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
show me one study that accounts for that.

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- fkn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I read your other post using poor and nemeck and even that article shows it.
  
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  - commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    if you can cite where in that article it gives credit to cattle for conserving water that would be wasted, I would eat my hat.
    
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    fkn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    
    For each study, we recorded the inventory of outputs and inputs (including fertilizer quantity and type, irrigation use, soil, and climatic conditions).
    
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- WetBeardHairs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Not trying to be a dick here, but do you honestly think that you, a non-expert who likely doesn’t even practice in ecology or environmental sciences, are the authority here on whether any studies have attempted to account for the water consumption based on the feed variety and sources?
  
  Because if you thought of it as a way to shoot down a random internet comment, then the experts who work in the field have certainly done so and followed through with those calculations already. Have you ever met a professor? They fucking love to tear apart arguments because it gets their names into publications and that’s how they earn tenure and notoriety for grant funding.
  
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  - commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    you have no idea what my background is. this is just an appeal to authority.
    
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