Out of the Past

Our grandparents were mostly farmers and ranchers, but now food is produced by less than 3% of the population. This tenuous situation is spreading across the world, from developed countries to the grasslands of Mongolia. The threat to remaining family ranchers in the US and herders of Mongolia has never been more pressing. Can we find a place for the form of livestock production that sustained civilization for thousands of years, or will the pressure of overpopulation and modern production relegate true sustainability to something Out of the Past? [2/2010] [Agriculture] [Show ID: 17772]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• livestock
• production
• modern
• ranchers
• america
• mongolia

[falcoperegrinus82]

I understand how grazing cattle is the most ecologically sustainable option for meat production. However I think it's sustainable only when the livestock is grazing in the appropriate ecosystems that coevolved with this type of foraging. Obviously, cutting down forest to create pasture (i.e. in the American tropics) is not sustainable.

[watercup123456]

@Uaz31 Uh, WRONG, WHAT THE FUCK IS A KIND?

FUCKING STUPID LYING PIECE OF SHIT CREATIONIST READ A BOOK YOU FUCKING DIP SHIT!

THERE ARE NO KINDS! THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A KIND YOU FUCKING IDIOT YOU MADE THAT UP!

Evolution acts on the SPECIES. Species can display large variation, and indeed this is needed and required for adaptation, without enough individuals to spread genetic information, a species can be considered extinct even before all the individuals of the population die off.

[pamelbia2011]

And so now we realize how important farmers and ranchers are. They are very much part of sustainability.

[watercup123456]

@Uaz31 Adaptation IS evolution you fucking idiot!

READ A FUCKING BOOK YOU STUPID FUCKING PIG

THEY DID CHANGE FROM SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHAT THEY ARE NOW YEP YEP THAT IS EVOLUTION ITS WHAT HAPPENS OVER TIME PLANTS EVOLVED YOU EVOLVED EVERYTHING EVOLVES! OMFG WHAT A FUCKING LOSER THEY STILL MAKE CREATIONISTS WTF HELLO INTERNET TRY LOOKING UP FACTS DICKLESS THERE WAS NO JESUS EVOLUTION IS REAL LOSER GET THE FUCK OFF YOUTUBE!

[watercup123456]

@Uaz31 Like I told you you fucking idiot adaptation within the species IS evolution! HOLY FUCKING SHIT creationists are FUCKING DUMB! STOP BELIEVING IN RELIGION THERE IS NO GOD YOU STUPID FAGGOT THERE IS NO JESUS IT IS A MYTH FUCKING BRAINWASHED PUPPET!!

Evolution is proven science, YOU SAID IT YOURSELF SPECIES ADAPT that IS evolution right there YOU SAID IT SPECIES EVOLVE YOU PROVED EVOLUTION THANKS HAVE A SHITTY DAY FUCKING LOSER HAHAHAHAHAHAHA YOU GOT OWNED BITCH!!!

[Uaz31]

Wrong. Evolution is the idea that they are changing into other kinds, that doesn't happen.

What happens is adaptations within species they don't "evolve" into other kinds they only adapt within their kind.

They don't change into anything other than what they have always been.

Evolution is false its not a science its a religion.

[watercup123456]

@Uaz31 Evolution IS adaptation. Adaptation is one aspect of evolution. Evolution is the reason organisms can adapt. The two words used as such are congruent with one another and could conceivably be interchanged.

[schestowitz]

What a beautiful film.

[Uaz31]

She said the plants evolved, they didnt evolve they adapted. Saying they evolved makes it sound as if they changed into something other than what they are and that it in fact a lie.

[creosotegirl]

This is soo well done. Thank you so much.