If you and your wife have never tried venison before I would recommend you find a source for a few pounds of wild venison to try before you make the time/money investment into hunting. It would suck to spend $1000 on gun, tag, time, and butcher fees just to learn that you don’t like the taste. And it definitely has a taste, I wouldn’t call it bad, but it is different.

My family only accepts my venison ground in recipes with plenty of seasoning e.g. pasta and tacos.

1 deer will definitely supplement your meat diet, but it won’t allow you to maintain the standard American 1 meat item per lunch/supper diet. I killed 2 deer this year and I ended up with about 130lbs of meat total after butchering and jerky. That was on private land. Expect less success on public land.

Huh, do you have a brand recommendation for a 75 dollar installed inline coolant heater?

Idk how engine heaters in Scandinavia work, but in North America they only heat the oil pan. So your oil won’t be too thick when you start your engine, but it wont heat your cabin.

For that we would need to buy a shore power coolant pump/heater. Which exists but the extra 1000 dollar price doesn’t lend itself to popularity.

You cannot feed 8 billion people with the arable land that we have available without synthetic fertilizer.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-with-and-without-fertilizer

Even if we were to Thanos snap the world population and feed those people with only compost/manure/night soil, a large percentage of the labor force would need to go into food production, and cheap food would no longer be a possibility.

Farmers are using all the manure that they have available in the most efficient manner that the market will bear right now and even then I don’t know about any for profit farmer in my extension office who doesn’t use additional synthetic fertilizer.

Yeah and it didn’t have an affect on slavery as a market force at all.

The Caribbean slave colonies were still the biggest profit producing colonies that the European powers had because of their cane sugar production.

Little people like us sure can help, but what we really need is government policy to force change. There are always going to be too many people driven by cost rather than the ethics of an issue.

For anyone else who might be reading this discussion. Federatingistoohard is intent on lying about this topic for some reason.

My source details the entire state of Illinois.
One of the most agriculturally productive regions in the world.

I could do this exercise for all 50 states and the results would be similar. South Western States and California would have lower livestock usage percentages. The plain states would have higher percentage.

To any one who might be reading this conversation, I want you to understand that anyone in the industry can easily tell that federatingtoohard obviously has no experience with current methods of animal cultivation.

Grazing did work back in the day when you had 10 acres to every head and you didn’t care if your cattle starved in the winter because grass doesnt grow. But now those farmers are out of business because they were out competed by the ranchers that fattened up their cattle with fodder and grains.

Even cattle that have near infinite grazing land on BLM property require calorie supplementation with grain and fodder. The amount depends on the cattle density, annual rainfall, and the local soil productivity.

Here’s the data for Illinois: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Quick_Stats/Ag_Overview/stateOverview.php?state=ILLINOIS

27,000,000 tillable acres total

22,752,030 acres used for livestock/feed production

That leads to a figure of 84% of tillable land in Illinois used for livestock production. So Mr. Bomb is actually underselling how wasteful livestock production is.

Yes some small scale farmers allow their cattle to graze, but on any for profit farm here in the Midwest US, cattle don’t get anywhere near 50% of their calories from grazing.

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