[fantasticshower]

Could a diet where you only eat the meat from one slaughtered cow be the ideal vegan diet? One consciousness killed.

This approach would require purchasing a half from a local farmer who raises 100% grass fed animals and makes his own hay.

The hay definitely kills some animals when harvested though. It would be interesting to quantify the death impact (calories of beef produced per bale of hay) of a hay harvest and compare that to the death impact for some staple vegan foods, and see how things stack up.

Edit: The need for hay is a climate based one. There are places where cattle can graze for more or less days in a year. Hay is used a winter feed in places where winter forage is unavailable.

[myshpa]

While the notion of consuming only one cow's meat appears to reduce number of deaths, we must confront the environmental repercussions of livestock farming.

The resource intensive nature of animal agriculture causes more harm than it's immediately apparent (deforestation, biodiversity loss, eutrophication ...).

https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/publications/grazed-and-co...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/31/avoiding...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37188407

[fantasticshower]

Thanks for that first link. I'm interested to see what the conclusions are.