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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America feedingtheworld/wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug
  • Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:56:10 -0600


I've seen claims that 80% of the US corn crop goes to farm animals intead
of humans and 95% of the oats as well, that the acreage needed to produce
160 pounds of beef could produce 20,000 pounds of potatoes instead, that 20
people could get a complete diet from the land needed to raise one cow, and
that the amount of grain and soybeans eaten by livestock in the United
States could feed over a billion more people. And that half the total water
consumption in the US is for raising livestock.

I can't be sure of exact numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if all that's
in the ballpark. And consider that in view of the fact that the U.S. is now
a net IMporter of food. Don't we have enough land to feed ourselves in this
country?

I'm not a vegetarian, but it's pretty obvious the land, the agriculture and
the people are suffering from excessive beef production and consumption. I
doubt hese problems will be solved by consumers "walking with their dollars
to pasture raised animals". They'll be solved when crunch time comes and
people can't afford beef any longer. They'll be solved when people demand
to eat the grain that's wasted on millions of cattle. That day is coming.


paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
---------------
The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not
television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism. Only
those who know the most about it can appreciate how little we know about
it.
- Aldo Leopold in Round River, 1933

*********** REPLY SEPARATOR ***********

On 6/16/2006 at 7:35 PM Ryan Albinger wrote:

>I respect your choice to be a vegetarian. I don't like how many
>confinement operations are run. But I just state the way it is. It is
>profit based- for better or worse. It will not change until the American
>consumers walk with their dollars to pasture raised animals that the
>industry will largely shift to 'right it's ways'.
>
>Take a look at the Meatrix II. Another funny comic on the American
>confinement dairy industry.
>Ryan
>
>
>> [Original Message]
>> From: ECO FINCA <ecofinca@hotmail.com>
>> To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
>> Date: 6/16/2006 10:24:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] the myth of America
>feedingtheworld/wasCompost tea and bugs in a jug
>>
>> As a vegetarian i am more interested in the welfare of the animal than
>in
>> the money profit of the animal. Personally speaking the meat industry is

>> redundant.
>>
>> My neighbourgs have cattle and they pollute and erode intensively the
>> sorroundings, not to talk about the animals. They make profit but what a

>> price.
>>
>> Movie about the meat industry in a funny way
>> http://www.themeatrix.com/index.html
>>
>>
>> E C O







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