Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

Why do we have to have any use of poor grassland in the first place?

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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On 6/15/2006 at 8:14 AM Ryan Albinger wrote:

>What is the sustainable use of poor grass land?
>Ryan
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>> [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
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>>
>> 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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