Three years ago, North Dumas Farms was an empty field near the northern edge of the Texas Panhandle. Today it is a massive dairy operation—and one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the state. The dairy is permitted to hold up to 72,500 cows, whose burps and manure would produce an estimated 13,096 metric […]
@silence7@empiricism Research has also shown that cutting meat & dairy consumption worldwide would liberate an area of land equivalent to the whole of Africa. That land could be returned to nature and could absorb 16 years worth of global grewnhouse gas emissions.
The potential is certainly there. As well as liberating land for wildlife, there can be zones used for growing food using agroecological farming methods, which can also provide habitat for a variety of wildlife & locations for housing.
FYI, when you write “research has shown” please provide a weblink too that research, so that people that haven’t read the relevant research & or science-based report can read it.
Fundamentally, mono-industrial farming is unsustainable.
Yeah. Could be. It is not easy by any means. A lot of this land like large feedlots would need significant rehabilitation efforts. Further, pedological carbon sequestration is slow, and entirely microbially driven
Even converting a hay crop to native prairie is a gargantuan effort.
We really, really, need to manage our lands better and plan for scenarios where they can be used in ways other than their initial land use
@silence7 @empiricism Research has also shown that cutting meat & dairy consumption worldwide would liberate an area of land equivalent to the whole of Africa. That land could be returned to nature and could absorb 16 years worth of global grewnhouse gas emissions.
@leafn4give @silence7
The potential is certainly there. As well as liberating land for wildlife, there can be zones used for growing food using agroecological farming methods, which can also provide habitat for a variety of wildlife & locations for housing.
FYI, when you write “research has shown” please provide a weblink too that research, so that people that haven’t read the relevant research & or science-based report can read it.
Fundamentally, mono-industrial farming is unsustainable.
@empiricism @silence7 Oxford academic Joseph Poore reported his research in this video https://www.youtube.com/live/zBi8QIc1qXg?feature=share. See also https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf and https://animal.law.harvard.edu/…/Eating-Away-at-Climate
Yeah. Could be. It is not easy by any means. A lot of this land like large feedlots would need significant rehabilitation efforts. Further, pedological carbon sequestration is slow, and entirely microbially driven
Even converting a hay crop to native prairie is a gargantuan effort.
We really, really, need to manage our lands better and plan for scenarios where they can be used in ways other than their initial land use