how when cows and horses etc are in a field the grass doesn’t just…go

Question

On train home and I see cows in a field chomping, and the grass is very short, but how come they don’t eat all the grass and ruin the field?

What made me think this is locusts or whatever they’re called which destroy crops and leave nothing behind

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Answer 1

They do. We are having a big fight between animal treatment activists and farmers here at the moment. The farmers are keeping the cattle in the same pasture for longer during winter because the grass doesn’t grow as fast, and the cows eat all the grass so the field is just mud then some of them starve to death in the mud and the farmer moves the survivors to the next field and repeat until spring. The animal activists think this is cruel, so there is a big fight about farming regulations.