From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 18:09:07 MDT
On 6/10/01 1:30 PM, "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com> wrote:
>
> I am not so sure. It would be good to have the numbers. I have
> read somewhere (reference not at hand) that without feeding
> cattle (billions of head today) we would only need 1/17 of the
> land now cultivated to feed everyone a vegarian diet.
Except a substantial percentage of cattle aren't fed on cultivated land and
some of the land that *is* cultivated to feed cattle would be pretty much
useless for cultivating human food. Simply cutting back on the quantity of
cattle consumed to eliminate the areas of cultivatable land use overlap
should be sufficient; no need for everyone to go vegan.
-James Rogers
jamesr@best.com
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