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This is actually propaganda. Most cattle farms have shit loads of inputs. Lime and corn especially. But also, nearly every farm has hay as an input. Also, would gues over 50% of farms actually do ha...

David II 1771194273

When you remove the animal and its bones (consume) overtime minerals are removed. Eventually the land and animals will suffer. There is no paying Paul without robbing Peter.

Not exactly, that's not how an open ecosystem works. In this case, most farmers are just shitty farmers operating on subsidized inputs.

Nunya Bidness · 4d

If the soil is healthy then the sheer amount of minerals lost is mined from the underlying soil horizons via the release of organic acids (mostly from soil fungi). Only dead or dying soils (caused by mostly conventional agriculture) lose minerals permanently. Unless biology is brought back in.