In reply to Punter_Pro:
> It is not the case for the majority of mainland UK cattle livestock during the summer months, but a myth that is often believed by the public thanks to the damage caused by animal activists over the years.
I think it's a myth caused more by the general impossibility of nuance in online discussion. UK cattle production is relatively eco-friendly compared to large scale production elsewhere in the world. (Which, from a climate change point of view, is right up there among the very worst things we humans do.)
By 'relatively' I mean ranging from the genuinely sustainable to the mildly horrendous but obviously still nowhere near as bad as the world's worst (which involves burning down huge swathes of the Amazon rainforest).
I have a friend who 'shares' a lot of posts from the group 'Farmers against misinformation', holy shit they are not "against misinformation" when it supports their cause. They often base their numbers on the assumption that vegans live entirely on almonds and avocados (which of course non-vegan humans never eat), and the assumption that global soya production all goes into feeding vegetarians and vegetarians (when the vast majority of it doesn't even directly feed humans).
Which is a shame if they're trying to protect their own farms, because they'd probably be a lot more successful in that if they focussed on persuading meat eaters to eat better meat, even if that means they can afford a bit less of it.
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