On May 7, 2:46*am, Sidney Lambe > wrote:
> On alt.food.vegan, Romanise > wrote:
>
> > On May 6, 6:17=A0pm, Sidney Lambe > wrote:
>
> >> You can't keep goats or cows or buffalos without land.
>
> > In India many without land often living in mid size towns keep a cow
> > or two, a buffalo, or a couple of goats.
>
> If they don't have land to graze these animals on, how do they
> eat, Einstein?

They buy cattle-feed. Most towns have markets for cattle-feed where
farmers from neighbouring villages bring their green corn stock,
alfalfa, carrots to be sold. Farmers have daily supply contract with
farmers too, which is supplied every morning like milk.

Take a trip to Mumbai, walk around and count cows and goats on the
street. For buffalo pens each having hundreds of buffalo take a ride
on western railaway's suburban line. You will find them on both sides
once you leave Andheri where Mumbai International Airport is. But do
check out how the cows in Fort, Kalbadevi, etc manage. There you will
not find any one with cattle-feed loaded on carts making early morning
rounds.

Does in USA every Dairy Farm produce its own cattle-feed?

Perhaps you are unaware that cattle-feed too is a marketable
commodity.


> Do you have any idea how much vegetation those
> creatures consume?
>
> And what do those plants grow on? LAND. Duh.
>
> So they have land they can use. That land can be used to grow food
> for people rather than animals. *This is much more efficient.
>
> Otherwise, you are telling us that those peasants

Those who keep cattle in towns and cities are not all in dairy
business. Some are like those with buffalo pens of Mumbai.

> have fodder for
> their animals shipped to the animals, which is absurd. They couldn't
> possibly afford that.
>
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>
> Sid