From: J. Goard (wyattoil@foothill.net)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 01:51:54 MDT
At 05:09 PM 6/10/01 -0700, James Rogers wrote:
>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.
Yeah. Anyone familiar with the concept of marginal value?
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