Extension webinar answers complex questions on beef
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Dr. Sara Place, chief sustainability officer with Elanco Animal Health, presented a unique perspective on the topic of beef cattle and a sustainable food system in a September 2020 webinar through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.
Dr. Sara Place, chief sustainability officer with Elanco Animal Health, presented a unique perspective on the topic of beef cattle and a sustainable food system in a September 2020 webinar through the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension.
During the first part of her webinar, Place discussed the issue in depth, including trends in the beef industry (related to sustainability) and positives to this idea.
After a brief introduction to these topics, the beef specialist dove deeper into the repeat issues at hand as they relate to sustainability and why these have, or could have, large impacts on the industry.
“So the first of these issues comes down to feed-food competition or just overall resource use competition,” she began. “So what this means is thinking about animal feed as a competition with human food. The idea that animals, specifically beef cattle, are stealing food from the mouths of babes and that we'd be better off without them, without the ‘middleman,’ taking feed resources or taking land resources and diverting it towards the ‘inefficient use of food production.’”
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