The wonders of Google Maps. And adipophilia.

[sime42]

So my brother has just sent me this, (he must of been idly google maps scrolling, obviously a busy day at work).

 

Google Maps

WWW.GOOGLE.COM

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Find local businesses, view maps and get driving directions in Google Maps.

 

Cattle farming, Texas style. The scale and nature, (or lack of), of it is a bit obscene. It's vast. Those crop circles are weird too, due to centre pivot irrigation.

 

Anyone else seen interesting stuff somewhere?

 

 

Edited February 29 by sime42
Topic evolution

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, sime42 said:

Cattle farming, Texas style. The scale and nature, (or lack of), of it is a bit obscene.

The fallout from this form of intensive farming affects dairy and beef farming here as people erroneously attribute the same carbon and methane emissions to the, largely, grass fed cattle in UK when they try to persuade people to avoid beef and dairy products.

 

Not to mention Rishi wants us to have hormone fed beef.

[Steve Bullman]

Yep seen stuff like this before. All this talk about eating only grass fed beef and not from these farms is all well and good but the simple fact is there’s too many of us to feed. Farms like this are the only way 

[openspaceman]

7 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Yep seen stuff like this before. All this talk about eating only grass fed beef and not from these farms is all well and good but the simple fact is there’s too many of us to feed. Farms like this are the only way 

We will definitely have to disagree about that where's @farmer rod?

 

The issue is also about feeding cereals fit for human consumption to cattle

[john87]

7 minutes ago, Steve Bullman said:

Yep seen stuff like this before. All this talk about eating only grass fed beef and not from these farms is all well and good but the simple fact is there’s too many of us to feed. Farms like this are the only way 

Maybe, but vast acreages in the US are used for the production of maize, purely to make the shitty ethanol that nobody wants in petrol. Apparently 40% of the entire maize production of the US is used in this way..

 

I think it is shameful when so many people are starving, more than shameful, obscene..

 

john..

[GarethM]

2 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

We will definitely have to disagree about that where's @farmer rod?

 

The issue is also about feeding cereals fit for human consumption to cattle

That and corn for ethanol, alfalfa grown in the circles and exported to Dubai.

[openspaceman]

56 minutes ago, GarethM said:

alfalfa grown in the circles

If they are drawing water from aquifers faster than they recharge it is not sustainable either.

[GarethM]

9 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

If they are drawing water from aquifers faster than they recharge it is not sustainable either.

I'm sure there was something last year in California banning new farms, as the water comes via that open air canal which supplies las Vegas.

[sime42]

1 hour ago, Steve Bullman said:

Yep seen stuff like this before. All this talk about eating only grass fed beef and not from these farms is all well and good but the simple fact is there’s too many of us to feed. Farms like this are the only way

 

It's not quite the only way. The other way is to not eat copious amounts of meat every day. The American diet is probably the worst in the world, from various perspectives.

 

 

[sime42]

38 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

If they are drawing water from aquifers faster than they recharge it is not sustainable either.

 

Ogallala Aquifer - Wikipedia

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