10oz of coconut product per day from 5,678 square feet.
128oz of goat milk 2/3s of the days from 500 square feet.
Goats produce 97 times as much product per square foot. CNN made a big deal about the land, water, and other resources to feed cows.
500 square feet. Goats harvest their food themselves and fertilize their crops, too. Nobody needs to climb an eighty-foot goat with a machete.
Trees are better for the environment than palm plantations:
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[T]o produce palm oil in large enough quantities to meet growing demand, farmers across Southeast Asia have been clearing huge swaths of biodiversity-rich tropical rainforest to make room for massive palm plantations. Today palm oil production is the largest cause of deforestation in Indonesia and other equatorial countries with dwindling expanses of tropical rainforest. Indonesia’s endangered orangutan population, which depends upon the rainforest, has dwindled by as much as 50 percent in recent years.
The clearing of these forests is a big factor in global warming, given how much carbon dioxide (CO2) trees store when left alone. Once forests are cut, tons of CO2 heads skyward where it does the most harm. Also, when not replaced by palm oil plantations, rainforests help maintain water resources by absorbing rainfall and then releasing it into streams and rivers, thus minimizing flooding and soil depletion.
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