Re: American taste and discretion
Originally Posted by
swimfeeders
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You could say that milk is the by product
(?) of the beef industry, but what is important is that
you cannot have one without the other.
Similar wording confusion with Swimfeeders (tell us about that name?).
Perhaps I need to learn to be more concise.
Your statistics are absolutely correct - as far as they go.
It is your linkage between
beef cattle for
meat and
dairy cattle for
milk products which I dispute.
Aus has some 28 million BEEF cattle - bred for meat.
1.6 million
cows on dairy farms.
One is in no way a "by-product" of the other.
For the most part, they operate in different parts of the continent.
A cattle (beef, meat) property is general huge- often with upwards of a hundred thousand head.
Dairies are generally small with perhaps a few hundred cows.
The cattle station might have a few 'house cows' just to provide milk for the family and staff but very, very rarely as a money-making adjunct.
If the dairy
industry did not exist here at all, we would still have a substantial beef cattle industry.
Therefore we most certainly
could "
have one without the other".