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Can you do the math on how much land you would need to have all the cattle in the world graze? To save you time, it does not compute with our Earth.

Suggesting any solution which is not scalable to the whole world is not a solution at all. For example Joe Rogan is talking about how hunting as being ethical way to get meat. But what would happen if 7 billion people hunted their meat?

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Somehow 60 million bison wandered the prairie for millenia without the world ending... shall we kill all of the wild ungulats? Cap the volcanoes? At what point should humans just commit mass self sacrifice in the interest of saving the earth?

60 million is a drop on the bucket compared to how many cows humans raise for the purpose of food. This is a dumb take.

U.S. currently has ~95 million cows. That 60 million figure for Bison was U.S. population pre-westward expansion. 60/95=63% - that’s a rather large “drop in the bucket”... dumb take seems to be on your end here bud.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/194297/total-number-of-c...

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