RodISHI
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No problem with the raising them however they want. They just need to deal with the shit properly as it goes into everyone else's water and ponds. Same with chemical sprays just do it where it ain't going to wash down stream, go into the water table or poison everything else in sight. These big operations have all been subsidized and people we now who had smaller operations that were more environmentally conscious about it all lost out. They can't compete with corporates that are subsidized and ruthless about making a dime no matter the cost to others.(she) is talking about feedlots that contain animals from birth to slaughter. The piglets never see what grass is. They are doing the same in some cattle operations now that are trying to feed them from birth to slaughter inside. The large cattle operations raise them from lil' guys to slaughter here too. Why do you think they want to close down open range ranchers? They have big operations in South America and the old style rancher is competition.The Aquifer spreads underground there several miles wide. Heck INEL is over a 150 miles away but their nuclear trash wound up polluting the river there too.Then maybe don't have the cow grazing so close to the river.
Along the freeway? Ain't no grass really grows on concrete and asphalt last I knew. They don't have barbed wire there?
Yup cow poo piles rows next to the freeway. Its still a pretty remote area. Not a lot of grazing goes along in those type dairy feedlots. They just have small pasture areas for their cows there. I am not sure if they have any regulations on a certain amount of land per cow or not. I doubt they do. I'll ask next time I go out there.
Why would they pile the poo next to the highway? It does make good fertilizer.
A rule of thumb for beef farmers is 1 acre per cow. Do you know how much filtering happens as water seeps down to the aquifer through the ground?
It's pure by the time it gets there.
I think he's referring to a feedlot where they get the cows contained and they fatten em up just before they hit the slaughter house.
Sorry about that...
I've never heard of cattle being raised this way,it's just not practical.
Pigs and fowl yes.