Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Fair points. I want to see ruminants grazing sustainably in areas unsuited 
for crops, esp where they get water we don't need and fertilize the land for 
more growth. Of course none of that applies to corporate feedlots that 
furnish most of our meat. What I favor is the European style using small 
amounts of meat mainly for flavoring and broth etc. That would end the 
feedlot disgrace. I recycle local horse manure for better food production.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/3/2010 at 2:29 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>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