... as if cultivating hillside after hillside and meadow after meadow for grain and fiber crops (yes, remember that much of the clothing you're wearing right now was GROWN on cultivated ag land) isn't an enormously wasteful and inefficient use of land and, for irrigated crops like cotton and vegetables, water. Cattle, on the other hand, can graze on land that is useless for growing crops because of poor soil, wrong climate, or difficult geography. Those beef animals convert otherwise near-useless land's weeds and grain too low in protein to be of much nutritional value for humans, into meat, milk, medicine, and leather.
When a cow or steer goes to slaughter, every smidgen of the critter is used for something, and it shows up in everything from industrial glues and steel processing to shoes and medicine.
Pound for pound, drop for drop, a beef animal provides ENORMOUSLY more than any crop and with far more efficiency.
Pound for pound, drop for drop, a beef animal provides ENORMOUSLY more than any crop and with far more efficiency.”
That, and they go great sitting beside a baked potato with everything on it, and an ice cold beer in a frosty glass