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- Onderwerp starter Medusa
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An appreciation post for the 1.5 billion cattle currently on Earth, quietly holding the whole thing together while receiving nothing but criticism in return.
Consider, for a moment, what these animals actually do:
- They turn grass, a thing no human can digest, into steak, a thing every human thrives on
- They graze the two-thirds of farmland that grows nothing else, asking for no thanks and receiving none
- They carry the most bioavailable iron, B12, and zinc on the planet, and deliver it on the hoof
- They produce butter, which on its own would justify the entire arrangement
- They fertilise the soil for free, through a process we are all too polite to describe in detail
- They build topsoil and sequester carbon into pasture, while being blamed, somehow, for the reverse
- They give us tallow, leather, marrow, suet, and gelatine, with no waste and no complaints
- They restore land that crops have exhausted, turning the worn-out and the marginal back into something living
- They stand in the rain for years on end and never once bring it up
Ten thousand years of domestication. Ten thousand years of being the most useful animal in the field, the foundation of the food system, and a keystone of every landscape lucky enough to hold them.
They are not the problem with the planet's future. They are, quite plainly, the shape of it.
We repaid all of this by putting them on the front of climate reports.
Magnificent animals. Owed an apology.
Mike
Consider, for a moment, what these animals actually do:
- They turn grass, a thing no human can digest, into steak, a thing every human thrives on
- They graze the two-thirds of farmland that grows nothing else, asking for no thanks and receiving none
- They carry the most bioavailable iron, B12, and zinc on the planet, and deliver it on the hoof
- They produce butter, which on its own would justify the entire arrangement
- They fertilise the soil for free, through a process we are all too polite to describe in detail
- They build topsoil and sequester carbon into pasture, while being blamed, somehow, for the reverse
- They give us tallow, leather, marrow, suet, and gelatine, with no waste and no complaints
- They restore land that crops have exhausted, turning the worn-out and the marginal back into something living
- They stand in the rain for years on end and never once bring it up
Ten thousand years of domestication. Ten thousand years of being the most useful animal in the field, the foundation of the food system, and a keystone of every landscape lucky enough to hold them.
They are not the problem with the planet's future. They are, quite plainly, the shape of it.
We repaid all of this by putting them on the front of climate reports.
Magnificent animals. Owed an apology.
Mike
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