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[christopher nesbitt <christopher.nesbitt@mmrfbz.org>]

I seem to have deleted the original post, but here is an interesting article 
on the same topic.

http://news.mongabay.com/2012/0426-hance_organicvsindustrial.html 
On Apr 26, 2012, at 6:04 PM, Toby Hemenway wrote:

> On Apr 26, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Dieter Brand wrote:
> 
>> That would mean that there would have to be nearly 300 millions hectares 
>> of farmland in the US.  That seems a lot.
> 
>> From http://www.ers.usda.gov/statefacts/US.HTM
> 
> Total US cropland 406,424,909 acres in 2007
> Total US pasture 408,832,116 acres
> 
> Assuming we should count all the pasture, and since it's land that is being 
> ruined by agriculture, I think so, that's 815 million acres of land for 
> food production, or 
> 
> 330 million hectares. One per US person. The Egyptians did much better.
> 
> Thanks for the exercise, Dieter.
> 
> 
> Toby
> http://patternliteracy.com
> 
> 
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