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On this episode of the Sustainable Dish Podcast I speak with Sara Place from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. We break down the components of life cycle assessments for cattle, and the impact on water, land use, and methane emissions.
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This is a great podcast. I find it interesting how beef cattle farming works n the US. Glad, too, that you don’t grow enough… you one of our best customers.
Mind you, cattle urinate in one spot at a time; not distributed evenly. This (here in NZ) has been shown to penetrate the topsoil and move into the aquifer and contaminate those aquifers and streams. This is true mostly of dairy cattle on the flat and mostly irrigated land the dairy farms are on. We have, in my district, water that s so highly contaminated that people are recommended to not drink from their own wells due to that; blue baby syndrome.
Many of us are aghast at the evolution of dairy here.
Cattle urine is a management problem, not an inherent issue with the animals. If they were given more space, this would not be an issue.