Disagreement re... giraffes (???)
User:KVDP: This article contains some important issues (such as methane & animal husbandry) which need numbers and sources to make them more valuable.
But... who raises giraffes, other than zoos, nature parks and game reserves? And okapi? Rhinos? All the other wild animals mentioned here? These are rhetorical questions - don't answer them here, but either provide a source when writing about unorthodox things like this, or just don't add them. (Sources need to show not just that someone does raise giraffes or gerenuk for meat, but it needs to back up the claims made - if you're saying that these can be good choices, show why - does it have a lower environmental footprint? Do the animals have a different impact on native grasses? Details, facts!)
And stop implying that native is necessarily the suitable or appropriate choice, without considering the whole context. We have discussed this, but the article still assumes this, and it is not demonstrated, and there is not even a case made for this assumption.
Please stop adding content that you do not understand and have not fact-checked.
We need to come to an agreement about how you edit, as these problems continue to occur and we have to spend time trying to resolve them - I find this very frustrating. If you try sourcing each claim you make, that might be a good start - could you try that?
I have removed the following section - I haven't gone through the whole article to remove all problems:
Note that cattle is discarded alltogether/not included in the list since it isn't a native animal anywhere (it is a species crossed by the human population, from the aurochs -itself now extinct-). the same is true for the zebu. Animals such as pheasants (which do not much plants, but rather berries, nuts, grain) are also not included in the list. The wild turkey also eats nuts, berries, grasses (it's an omnivore) but still consumes allot of grasses aswell.
The ancestor of the domestic pig, or rather the wild boar (Sus scrofa) is also not included in the list because, although it does consume grass aswell (actually omnivore), the many different subspecies (Sus scrofa scrofa or the european wild boar, Sus scrofa cristatus: (indian), Sus scrofa leucomystax (eastern), Sus scrofa vittatus (malaysian, Northern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean Region (including North Africa's Atlas Mountains) and much of Asia as far south as Indonesia) would lead us too far, and too much text would need to be placed on the map.
Other grazers in grasslands can also be considered, not necessairily living off grass, but ie off shrubs, trees, ... An example is the giraffe, gerenuk, dik-dik (all feed on acacia).
Also note that many other animals can be added, ie: rhinoceros, hippopotamus, deer, antelopes (ie impala, Ugandan kob, Topi, hartebeest, ...), other gazelles (Thomson's gazelle, ... ), common eland, springbok, blackbuck, Tibetan and Mongolian gazelle), alpine ibex, zebra, okapi, the European rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), cottontail rabbit (genus Sylvilagus; 13 species), and the Amami rabbit.
Thank you --Chriswaterguy 20:08, 18 June 2012 (PDT)