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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] the oil we eat/ the myth of America feeding the world/
  • Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 15:10:14 -0600


Then it would help to see how much petroleum we eat, wouldn't it. Anyone
have the numbers out there?

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
--Henry David Thoreau
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On 6/17/2006 at 2:06 PM Pat Meadows wrote:

>On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:20:39 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>
>>Interesting, Mark. I saw a special on Arctic Russian family groups
herding
>>reindeer. They live where the reindeer feed on lichen beneath the snow,
>and
>>all they eat and use come from their herds. It occurred to me that their
>>meat is so different from the meat we get. Consider what goes into the
>>beef and poultry marketed in this country, hormones, vaccines, excessive
>>oils or fats from grains, and pesticides concentrated in fatty tissue. Is
>>this good for us? So avoiding it may be the healthiest thing for us to
>do.
>>
>>I'd question how healthy those Arctic peoples would be if they had to eat
>>the stuff in our stores. They're actually living on the land. We're
living
>>on the Machine.
>>
>
>You got that right. And The Machine runs on petroleum.
>
>Pat
>--
>Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.
>
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