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Joseph L. Wiess

The Modern Feedyard (at least the one I worked on,) was one square mile.
It had 72 pens which housed 50-70 cattle. They were fed a mixture of corn/wheat/barley with feed supplments. They were shaded, and had an advanced watering system.
The waste was piled in hills that farmers could buy and use to fertilize their fields.
There was another square mile of grazing for special order herds.
Most commercial butchers have a smaller footprint.

30 Jul 2025
Elle Griffin

And why should 30% of our habitable land be used that way? And why should 66% of mammals (in biomass) be cows?

You keep saying how great cows are, and that’s fine, but that doesn’t mean we need this many of them. Cows have completely take over the world.

31 Jul 2025
Joseph L. Wiess

Humanity takes up far more room than Cattle. Why don't we just decimate the population?
Cattle serve an ecological purpose, mankind does not.

31 Jul 2025
Elle Griffin

Cattle’s only ecological purpose is for man. No humans, there would be no cattle.

And humans only take up more room than cattle if you take into consideration that all of that cattle is for us.

2 Aug 2025

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