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Weird, 97% is a really high number... In my country it's about 10%, even with the EU laws to promote extensivization. I'll take it though.
Grass lands are common, but what about the animals? There couldn't have been nearly that many if a few early colonists hunted them down so quickly. Also the kind of grassland those lived in was vastly different from what cows need, let alone chicken.
Messing with their pH balance? As in, giving them diarrhea? Yes, that's usually treated with antibiotics if severe, but still insufficient. Cattle get many different kinds of infections, anything from infected cuts to insect-transmitted diseases.
If we humans get and transmit diseases today, animals do the same. The first risk factor for that is the total number of individuals, so that needs to be cut down, and livestock are much more numerous than us.
Most of what this person says is made up.
@pancake
this site says 90% family owned (edit: for beef): https://www.neogen.com/neocenter/blog/fast-facts-state-of-u-s-cattle-ranching/
this site says 97% of farms are family owned: https://ussoy.org/97-the-percentage-of-u-s-farms-that-are-family-owned/
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Grace can't see your reply because lemmy blocks exploding-heads.
interesting, I didn't think that would be the case because wolfballs blocks lemmyML too and their comments show up for me
does this site block e-heads at all? because I tried to comment on another post in gtio politics which I posted on on wolfballs and it wasn't showing up (because wolfballs sometimes has downtime issues so I use explodingheads and also try to give them more traffic)
Their comments aren't on wolf balls. Lemmy blocks exploding heads, but exploding heads doesn't block lemmy. You can see them but they can't see you.