Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "How Dutch Gouda Cheese Is Made On A 150-Year-Old Family Farm | Big Business" video.

  1. the difference originates in how much of the cattle's energy supply is covered by grazing or by the same farm's hay production vs. how much industrially produced feed is used (typically compared to grass or hay very highly energy-dense stuff made of grains and byproducts of grains and other crops). the netherlands are a tiny and densely populated country, and the reason why they have livestock producing lots of manure is that they're keeping far more livestock than dutch land could feed, and they import most of the necessary fodder. and at the same time, there are not enough fields to be capable of absorbing anywhere near the total manure production in a beneficial way. in other nearby countries, the situation is similar, so there also isn't anyone around who would gladly take the manure and pay for transport. the lowlands of the netherlands, northern germany and denmark are full of factory farms overproducing manure. and they're part of an agricultural system that produces in rich countries food prices meat with a really crazy shift relative to the traditional affordbility ratios before factory farming, in that the cheapest grades are extraordinarily cheap. correspondingly, most people can afford to and do eat a lot of meat.
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