• Acute_Engles [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Um i was doing the math and if i need to eat a goat a week but it takes years for the goat to get to size and i also need some for milk ill need like a shitload of breeding pairs which seems like they will eat a lot of grass and also what do i feed my chickens?

    Is it possible i could just eat the food I’d need to grow for my animals? Nooooo

    The literal easiest and cheapest thing to produce out of all of this is the honey jesus fucking christ

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t been able to find it since I got a new computer, but there was a copypasta-worthy bazinga cope screed I read once that was in a published magazine about some techbro in Silicon Valley dismissing climate collapse as a non-issue, and the way he said it was something like this: “The planet doesn’t matter. We can have sustainable habitats in space. We can build orbital ranches that slaughter beef cattle for meat. Elon Musk.

    I remember that last part the most. The bazinga said “Elon Musk” as if that was the decisive closing argument. so-true my-hero

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    The whole reason livestock ever were domesticated in the first place in agricultural societies is because livestock could eat the stalks of harvested plants and crop waste (something something humans couldn’t eat or digest), and turn it into something humans could eat (diary and meat), could use to plant and fertilize more crops and fields (in manure), and could use to clothe and insulate ourselves (wool and animal hides). That’s what made the whole situation effective and efficient thousands of years ago, that’s what made these systems self sufficient. You cannot remove the largest component (the crops themselves) and expect the system to still work. That’s a fantasy land that has never existed.

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      They think literally everyone was a hunter gatherer, there was no communities that weren’t family units and every one of those family units that never interacted ever with anyone else unless doing warfare ALL got the Agriculture Perk when Humans got enough Evolution EXP by eating mammoths and all individually started small yeoman farms. Then some strong guy got other strong guys and called himself a king and united all these individual yeoman farmers against their will and made them share so he could something something cause that’s their current stupid paranoia and they don’t understand how culturally malleable people are. We may be genetically the same as the frozen cave dwellers we dig up but if you went back to even the time of your great grandparents you’d find yourself in a totally foreign and to you probably hostile place.

  • simplefluorine [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Interestingly you can multiple vitamin deficiencies from consuming only goat products. The eggs may keep that at bay but that’s not much of a backup plan

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          2 months ago

          This is demonstrably false if you are talking about chicken eggs unfertilized.

          Go ahead and talk about the ethics of keeping chickens and harvesting their eggs or eating chicken periods but I am almost 100% certain this is bullshit.

          • Krem [he/him]@hexbear.net
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            eggs come from chickens. chickens are bred. half of all hatched chicks are male. because they are useless to the egg industry, they are dumped into a big grinder (while fully conscious) and crushed into a paste. half of all chickens bred for the egg industry are immediately killed. seven billion every year, thirteen every minute.

            of course, female chickens are also killed at a fraction of their natural lifespan once they stop being productive.