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  • From: Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>
  • To: ibilio list <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] So what do you really think about long term climate change due to pollution
  • Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 08:23:00 -0700

On 3/27/07 1:49 PM, "Charles de Matas" wrote:

> It takes less land to grow a person's food requirements for a vegetarian
> diet than for a diet that includes meat.

Ah, but let's think permaculturally here. If livestock are competing with
you for food and land, that's a case of bad design. Animals can be stacked
into a system as an additional yield, not as a substitute for some other
yield (or worse yet, as a detriment to yield, as in industrial meat and
diary farms). I know people who are raising chickens almost exclusively on
food scraps, weeds, and insects, others who raise goats on unwanted browse
and cuttings from their abundant food forest, others who graze animals on
land that is no good for raising crops. All those animals add to yield. If
you set up your systems right, it can take less land, not more, to grow a
diet that includes meat than one that doesn't, since animals can eat so many
things that we can't, and turn them into food for us.

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com






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