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i am more than willing to engage on any positive claim you want to make (i probably agree with a lot of them). what i’m not willing to do is tolerate personal attacks and dogpiling.

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I haven’t found a compelling reason to do it

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lots of people talk about economics as though it is science.

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Bold claims require bold evidence.

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“basic economic principles” is handwaving. you’re storytelling, not making a scientific postulate

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you already linked poore-nemecek 2018, and I explained some of the problems with the methodology. citing it again doesn’t resolve this

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given that beerf cattle can simply graze, that when they do make it to the feedlot they are fed fodder and crop seconds, what metrics do you think can meaningfully inform the “efficiency”?

our food system is so complex and interconnected that it makes no sense to claim any individual food product has a particular impact: each operation must be evaluated individually and improved in its own context.

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a bit overwrought

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4 points

the vast majority of makes are brought to full weight before slaughter.

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