livestockboy
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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
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Although, it would be very hard to write SIMD performant code in Haskell, even its string libraries don't use any optimization tricks.
Comment · 10 years ago
Use of pesticides in plant agriculture is mostly driven by huge demand of meat/dairy industry for feed. GMOs also aren't exactly necessary if you don't have 90 billion mouths to feed every day.
There are some vegetables that are easily grown in unsuitable areas with GM, and some people do use pesticides and GMOs to "defeat" the market but if international logistics weren't so hard it would be easier to just import the stuff.
Similar industry, completely plant driven, is cotton agriculture for clothes - to ensure proper demand you need GMO or pesticides.
When it comes to beans, lentils, soybean for humans (although most of it is for fish farms, poultry and livestock), wheat, corn, rice, all sorts of fruits, pesticides come in hand, but there's more than enough if space was taken from dairy/meat and given to those.
91% of Amazon is cut for animal agriculture. http://www-wds.worldbank.org/servlet/WDSContentServer/WDSP/I...
It's just 7 billion people, while you have to raise 50 billion chickens, 1 billion cows, -- about 150 billion animals yearly just to get them from baby form to somewhat of an adult form. That requires a lot of food, way more than 7 billion avg. 150 pound humans.
edit: realistically, this problem is unsolvable, just like US and China and others won't really struggle lowering their CO2 footprint, so will not Brazil, USA, India, Australia, Denmark and others when it comes to reduction of their meat/dairy output. If we were some nice unified Humanity maybe things would be different.
Comment · 10 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4q920m/askscien...
nice AMA from the experts directly.
First answer:
> First, a lot of antibiotic resistance appears to be driven by the agricultural use of antibiotics as growth enhancers. Thus, we can be savvy consumers and support and be willing to absorb the costs of the efforts to get antibiotics out of the meat industry.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=livestock+last-resort+a...
Here's a nice batch of results.
It's a well known problem, not some esoteric trivia. It is also the biggest cause of selective pressure, not antibacterial soaps or human medicine misuse of antibiotics.
Comment · 10 years ago
> is a requirement to not getting sick from eating the products
one gives antibiotics to one's thousands of chickens to spur growth (body growth - gaining mass), not to protect the consumer from disease.
giving antibiotics to poultry extremely increases mass gains. post-slaughter processes add chemicals that keep meat from rotting, eradicating some of those living harmful bacteria that just so happen to turn flesh into unwanted dark piece of s+=t.
Comment · 10 years ago
easy solution is to just heavily tax dairy, livestock and other industries that produce hundreds of billions of bacteria testing grounds (animals) per year at the same time using last-resport antibiotics to spur growth and reap profits.
or give extreme tax benefits to those that don't use antibiotics.
git is a whole different story compared to darcs, darcs is simpler to use, especially when merging.
if it was consistently fast I'm pretty sure git wouldn't be as popular as it is.
there is rust vcs https://pijul.org/ that seems to be doing the same thing as darcs but faster.
so I guess CJefferson's controversial comment stands :D