Anyway I want to point out that the reason why Zuck is raising a very small number of extremely pampered cattle is almost certainly because he’s claiming his compound as a farm and taking advantage of extremely favorable tax breaks on personal land that will never feed as single person in Hawai’i.
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tami lam
This post reads like rich people satire
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Not me, but some.
https://jacobin.com/2023/06/agriculture-property-tax-break-use-value-assessment-superrich-mark-zuckerberg-investment
his billion$ are the porkchop around his neck.
the tax man comes even when the atmosphere is boiling i suppose
I hope they can preserve those Native Wagyu breeds. Heritage breeds are extremely valuable genetically.
Who knows.
If anyone else did this it would be called a "hobby farm" but his ego requires him to make a huge deal about it.
Japan banned the export of their native cattle breeds in 1997. This includes both live animals and sperm.
So, it appears he is raising Angus and likely American Wagyu, which is an American-created breed descended from exports before that crossed with Angus.
I had an uncle that did this, which is why I have an early memory of chasing sheep around hills in Oregon in a cherry red Cadillac. (Late seventies...)
I went down this rabbithole when someone said our very large garden qualifies as a farm (it doesn’t) and looked it up. But it’s especially heartbreaking when you consider that local farms in Hawaii are essential given the limited land and this dude is hoarding huge swaths of it.
(Remembering in high school, when the wanna-be cowboy clique would talk about spending hours handrubbing manure into their boots for that authentic look and smell.)
Macadamia Meal is not proper feed for cattle of any bread. If he only feeds Macadamia Meal to those cattle they will not live. I mean did he not do a whole no processed foods for a while? But he will feed his food animals with it...