in rural Wisconsin, you're going to see a lot of cows hanging out in vast fields of grass everywhere you go. You'll smell their **** being used as fertilizer too.
To be fair, they are raised for milk rather than meat, so the entire operation has a different focus.
Livestock grown to be slaughtered at the earliest opportunity for its meat is the real problem.
I think we've got a bit of both on our farms, but I'm no farmer. Wisconsin, in general, never seems to fit the mold. People talk about deforestation, destruction of habitats, the expansion of the concrete jungle, etc. In our city of 30,000 I can climb 3 stories up and look out the window and wonder where in the heck the city is, because there are trees as far as the eye can see. Every yard usually has at least 3-5+ of them. Even then, our city is an island, in a sea of trees for miles. I see deer (in the city) almost every single day. We've got sprawling city, state, and federal parks all over. I always like to think of our state as one giant forest, with some cities sprinkled throughout it. Milwaukee and Fond Du Lac, maybe Madison, are holes, but they account for an extremely small portion of the landscape. We've got plenty of logging, but we'll never run out of trees.
