From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 10:07:48 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
> Part of that other subject is that I've seen figures claiming
> there are some billions of head of cattle being raised for
> slaughter, milk and so on. It takes a large part of the farmed
> land to feed these cattle. Arguably many more people could be
> fed healthy diets for a fraction of the land used if the people
> were vegetarian. This has large impact on the ecological
> balance of earth and on the hunger rate.
THe problem with this logic is that historically, societies based on agriculture
are far more population explosive than hunter gatherer societies. All that
eliminating the cattle does is prolong the inevitable: humanity needs to take
command of its gonads. The organized agriculture, which is primarily focused on
production of plant matter for human consumption, not livestock consumption, is
THE greatest negative impact upon the ecology. It is vegetarians that are to blame
for the ecological devastation of the modern world, not the hunters (even whale
hunting was a side effect of the industrialization of agriculture, as whale based
lubricants were needed for lubricating farm machines and industrial machines that
processed plant food for humans.)
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