Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

I've contended before that farm animals are a natural part of the
ecosystem. The other side of the picture is far too many cattle and most of
the manure wasted. And third world countries deforested for pasture. I
think you're correct, much unsuitable land can and should be used to raise
herbivores. But what we have is a large part of corn crops going to factory
feedlots (if it's not subsidized to turn into ethanol), corn grown on flat
agricultural land like Iowa. The millions of cattle might be sustainably
replaced by smaller, more realistic numbers of hardy animals grazing
mountainous regions, like the Navajo-Churro sheep and other breeds. Without
feedlots.

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all
our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to
foster its renewal is our only hope.
   - Wendell Berry 
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On 6/20/2006 at 12:33 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>FYI:
>
>    Vegetarianism
>
>  The vegetarian myth is disproved.  It is often stated that meat produces
>one-fourth to one-tenth the food that using that same land for a
>vegetarian diet would produce.  That is not the whole picture.  Animals
>who transform one-fourth of their food into meat transform three-quarters
>of their food into manures (high value fertilizer if properly managed and
>used) which is transformed into humus which is transformed into crops for
>both livestock and people.  Organic agriculture recycles everything and
>transforms inert minerals, air, water and sunshine into increased biota
>through feeding the microherd a full diet including animal wastes.  There
>is more life created into existence out of the dead planetary chemistry
>than vegetarians are able to account for with their tired false myth.
>[Lion Kuntz]  Much of the land in many countries is suitable only for
>pasture which can be used only to produce meat.  
>   
>  Compost Tea: Will someone please send to me a photo of  the desert
>"before" and "after" with that lush growth.  10 June I drove from Lubbock
>TX to Cuauhtemoc, Chih. Mexico and drove back arriving home 17 June.  That
>is desert.  Should be a lot of sales out there???
>   
>  I have made tea and the time it takes to make and use it makes it a poor
>choice. Increase organic matter in the soil by growing it in the soil and
>leaving it on top of the soil.  Cost is practically 0.
>   
>  Ken Hargesheimer 
>
>
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