Thread by @homemadeguitars

Meat.
Here's the deal about telling people to stop eating meat.
It is an economic fact that we do not "raise grain to feed to meat."
Cattle do not prosper on a diet of grain. It's not even good for them.
We raise cattle to consume grain, to create a market for grain. No reverse.

I'm not saying, eat meat. I'm saying, when we didn't eat enough meat, they had to start feeding corn to cars.
After feeding 10% processed corn to cars, we found that we still were not providing sufficient market for corn.
So we raised it to 15%.
Motorcyclists screamed NOOOOOO!!!

3. It is a production fact that at the time a bushel of corn moves from the combine to the grain truck at the edge of the field, that corn contains more fossil fuel BTUs of energy than are present as corn BTUs.
Then we haul it, heat it, distill it - add more fossil energy -

4. Then truck it to refineries, where it is added to gasoline - or, in the case of soybeans, to diesel fuel - and burned.
Running the fossil fuel through corn before burning it in cars and light trucks is a net loss of energy.
Should have left the cornfield to grow Johnsongrass.

5. Taken the gasoline that produced the corn, burned *that* in the cars and trucks, and taken a team of horses and a mower, mowed down the carbon-containing Johnsongrass, and left it to rot, sequestering carbon.
Would have required less total energy and emissions.
It ain't the 🐂

Mow the Johnsongrass like this. Don't waste a bunch of fossil energy for the primary purpose of turning a livable climate into cash for a few rich people.
But, you know... Lies.

PS. Raise cattle on grass. If that means meat costs more, and w can't produce as much, perfect. Then people will eat less of it. Win-win.
Quit screaming at the suckers at the bottom. They're not running the system.