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Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug
- From: "Ryan Albinger" <ryalbinger@earthlink.net>
- To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 08:14:27 -0500
What is the sustainable use of poor grass land?
Ryan
> [Original Message]
> From: TradingPostPaul <tradingpost@riseup.net>
> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 6/15/2006 12:03:56 AM
> Subject: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/
wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug
>
>
> Skipping over your points I can only agree with, you ask
> > But will small areas save Texas from desertification?
>
> Robert, we know the beef industry sucks big time. The country eats ten
> times the beef that it needs; cattle are by far the most inefficient use
of
> land and increasingly scarce (and expensive) fresh water, compared to food
> grown for direct human consumption. How many people realize the U.S. is
not
> "feeding the world" but is a net importer of food? We can't feed ourselves
> - the way we farm. Those " vast areas of poor grass land that is grazed by
> skinny cattle" should tell cattlemen to give up and get out and leave the
> land to people who know how to make sustainable use of it.
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Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug,
Ryan Albinger, 06/15/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug, TradingPostPaul, 06/15/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug, D Knoll, 06/15/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug, Claudia & Linda, 06/15/2006
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- Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug, Ryan Albinger, 06/15/2006
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Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug,
Ryan Albinger, 06/15/2006
- Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feeding the world/ wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug, TradingPostPaul, 06/15/2006
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