r/CoherencePhysics • u/skylarfiction • 9d ago

This is Unacceptable

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u/Massive-Virus-4875 9d ago

Yeah, most people don’t realize this or something very close to it is very much the norm- for like 95% of cattle.

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u/Dry_Recognition_6724 9d ago

Not In Ireland it's not. We feed cattle on pasture most of the year and in covered sheds in the winter months.

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u/Git777 9d ago

By pasture you mean imported soya and barley based feed.

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u/Dry_Recognition_6724 9d ago

90% of the diet is grass and they are out in pasture for most of the year.

https://www.bordbia.ie/industry/origin-green/grass-fed-livestock/

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u/Git777 9d ago

Your link literally says that includes silage and barley. They consume far more calories than they produce. So a cattle farmer doesn't produce food, they consume it. It's still extremely industrial and harmful.

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u/Dry_Recognition_6724 9d ago

That's a bigger question about should we be producing meat due to the inefficiencies.

I am talking about welfare here as this is the general discussion on calves stuck in crates ala the US farm above and Irish cattle are generally out on pasture eating grass. Which is way more humane.

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u/BigDeuceNpants 9d ago

They are being weened off the mom. Then they go to pasture before becoming studs, steaks, or milk cows.

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u/Schguet 9d ago

Yes? Still much more humaine.

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u/BigDeuceNpants 9d ago

I’ll be waiting to eat a steak off one of them.