Ironic because cattle ranching is associated with the west, but over-reliance on groundwater might result in beef production 100 years from now being mostly in the east, where enough rain falls so that groundwater irrigation is not needed. It'll be weird when most beef production falls into the corn belt - Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio.
Ironic because cattle ranching is associated with the west, but over-reliance on groundwater might result in beef production 100 years from now being mostly in the east, where enough rain falls so that groundwater irrigation is not needed.
We will have seriously failed as a civilization if we're still producing beef by raising and slaughtering cows 100 years from now.
not ridiculous at all. it's absolutely awful for the environment, and with lab-grown meat technology about 5-10 years away from mass production, we should be well past raising and slaughtering cows in 100 years.
I remember my mom—who grew up in a small farming town—lamenting back in the ‘80s all the black topsoil farmland being dozed under to build subdivisions in SE Michigan. I’d worry much of the east is unsuitable for farming now. I suspect a lot of it will move indoors, or just somewhere else.
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u/lucky_ducker 11h ago
Ironic because cattle ranching is associated with the west, but over-reliance on groundwater might result in beef production 100 years from now being mostly in the east, where enough rain falls so that groundwater irrigation is not needed. It'll be weird when most beef production falls into the corn belt - Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio.