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Most Irish people underestimate the link between eating red meat and climate change (www.thejournal.ie)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Semen isn't the limiting factor in breeding. You can get 1200 straws from a bull in a day.

A thousand bulls could in theory breed our enitre national herd (about 7 million) (not recommended; just making the point that síol isn't the bottleneck; it's wombs as always)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Also makes us more susceptible to pandemics because there is less parent diversity

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago

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