Why is raising cattle important?

Answer 1

Cattle ranching is good for both the environment as well as the animals. The cattle graze on the land and eat down the grass. While eating down the grasses they are diminishing the fuel for a grass fire or a wild fire to start.

They are also eating to feed them selves. Grazing is better for cattle than feed lots, because there is more room for viruses to get away. In feed lots viruses can spread faster, and effect more cattle. While they eat they grow. They grow to feed us, and that's where you get grade A beef is, from the cattle who aren't raised close together. I guess you could say good meat comes from happy cows.

Answer 2

Good:

- Attention to environment and ecosystem by using cattle as a system to keep the grassland ecosystem healthy with the use of good grazing practices

- Cows produce calves which are used for beef

- Cattle are not in a feedlot in their own feces; they are out in a natural clean environment where they are free to move around and graze as they please

- Healthy cattle = healthy pastures/rangeland

Bad:

- conflicts with natural predators such as bears, wolves, and cougars

- not much money going into raising cattle these days due to increased prices in feed, fertilizer and fuel

- grasslands always prone to mismanagement or careless management on the human part of running an extensive operation

- calves on a ranch environment don't grow as fast on grass as they do on feed in a feedlot

Answer 3

Raising cattle is very important for the entire world. This is because they provide food to people, and also some types of cattle provide milk to people.