no. I just want to see how much water they say cows consumed from cotton and the total amount of water they say was used to grow the cotton. and then I want you to ask yourself if it’s reasonable to attribute ANY of that water to cows (it isn’t)
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fkn@lemmy.world 10 months agoYou are making this argument: hoards.com/article-20263-lets-end-the-feed-versus…
You want me to peer review the article and check that they did what they claim they did? That they actually recorded the water use at each step?
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
fkn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Cam you link specifically what you mean? I don’t see any attribution of cotton water to cattle in the 2018 Poor, Nemeck.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
i’m having problems right now even pulling up the full article, but, to my recollection, they didn’t actually gather any of this data themselves, so you should be able to find some oblique reference to water used somewhere in the body of the paper, and then follow the citation to the actual study that did gather the data.
fkn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The 2018 article doesn’t mention cotton at all as far as I can tell.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
that article is awesome
matlag@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
A non-peered review article from a totally unbiased source.
Coming up next, an article demonstrating the benefit of burning oil for the environment by Shell.
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
did he lie about something in that article?
matlag@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Today we burn tons of oil. Say tomorrow we have switched to all electric. Do you think we’ll keep extracting oil and that will create an environmental burden because of that oil sitting around?
That’s the same reasoning.
Today we grow megatons of corn,… for different things, including feeding livestocks.
Tomorrow, if we have less livestock, we’ll adapt the crops mix, just like rest of the world has been or is still doing fine without having mega-herds of cows.
We don’t have too many cows because we had too much crops. We increased the crops to match the herds!