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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7649921" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>the speed that protien, in broilers, can be grown, av 32-5 days, is nearly unbelievable, it's virtually manufactured, lab grown, to many of us, it's not 'nice'. But to millions, it's normal. Pigs are moving along those lines. Who can say whether it's ethical or not, it fills a requirement for cheap protien. Why the same effort/research, hasn't gone into beef and lamb, l don't know, they might have 'failed', but if that research, over 50 years, continuously breeding from the fastest growing sheep, or beef, with a bit of selective GM, it should have been possible to get beef, to grow, at similar rates. Our reaction is probably 'thankgoodness', but the requirement for cheap animal protien, is relentless.</p><p> Dairy wise, huge strides have been made in milk production, right down to injecting cows with, forgotten name, drugs to produce more, that proved unacceptable, to the public, and dropped. Dairy also clearly shows, where things can go 'wrong', we ended up with an animal, that was to 'frail' to last, and to expensive to keep, the holstien, and now breeders are back tracking !</p><p> Whatever we say/think, farming has to feed the world, as economies improve, the populations move up a gear, and they want better diets, usually better animal protien. Their guvs, require higher taxes, to provide the better conditions/services, the pop expects, and that, is the problem, you cannot tax basic food, you can only tax consumer goods, so, cheap food = more money spent on taxable goods = increased demand of those goods = faster growth = more tax income = better services. Higher food costs = lower spend on tax goods, etc.</p><p> I don't think it is actually possible to break that cycle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7649921, member: 86168"] the speed that protien, in broilers, can be grown, av 32-5 days, is nearly unbelievable, it's virtually manufactured, lab grown, to many of us, it's not 'nice'. But to millions, it's normal. Pigs are moving along those lines. Who can say whether it's ethical or not, it fills a requirement for cheap protien. Why the same effort/research, hasn't gone into beef and lamb, l don't know, they might have 'failed', but if that research, over 50 years, continuously breeding from the fastest growing sheep, or beef, with a bit of selective GM, it should have been possible to get beef, to grow, at similar rates. Our reaction is probably 'thankgoodness', but the requirement for cheap animal protien, is relentless. Dairy wise, huge strides have been made in milk production, right down to injecting cows with, forgotten name, drugs to produce more, that proved unacceptable, to the public, and dropped. Dairy also clearly shows, where things can go 'wrong', we ended up with an animal, that was to 'frail' to last, and to expensive to keep, the holstien, and now breeders are back tracking ! Whatever we say/think, farming has to feed the world, as economies improve, the populations move up a gear, and they want better diets, usually better animal protien. Their guvs, require higher taxes, to provide the better conditions/services, the pop expects, and that, is the problem, you cannot tax basic food, you can only tax consumer goods, so, cheap food = more money spent on taxable goods = increased demand of those goods = faster growth = more tax income = better services. Higher food costs = lower spend on tax goods, etc. I don't think it is actually possible to break that cycle. [/QUOTE]
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