Everything you said is fair and valid and seems right to me. Thank you for your thoughtful choices and reasoning.
Edit: I forgot you said entirely pasture/grass fed beef, so this waives the thoughts below.
A quibble:
Sorry, I probably could’ve worded this better, but my original wording was what I meant. My understanding is that crop cultivation for grains and beans causes painful wild animal deaths, but grass-fed cows/lamb do not eat crops and therefore, as far as I’m aware, do not cause wild animal deaths.
It seems that beef and dairy cows both use feed, not just grass. Because eating dairy/beef requires more calories of feed (trophic levels), it is possible the amount of land needed for beef might be large compared to land needed for soy.
Grass crops are a use of land that might have ambiguous effects on animal suffering.
I don’t know about either of 1) or 2) above.
I guess I am saying it is either good to be uncertain, or else get a good canonical source.
Everything you said is fair and valid and seems right to me. Thank you for your thoughtful choices and reasoning.
Edit: I forgot you said entirely pasture/grass fed beef, so this waives the thoughts below.
A quibble:It seems that beef and dairy cows both use feed, not just grass. Because eating dairy/beef requires more calories of feed (trophic levels), it is possible the amount of land needed for beef might be large compared to land needed for soy.Grass crops are a use of land that might have ambiguous effects on animal suffering.I don’t know about either of 1) or 2) above.I guess I am saying it is either good to be uncertain, or else get a good canonical source.