From: Francois-Rene Rideau (fare@tunes.org)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 14:18:58 MDT
On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 01:30:08PM -0700, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> 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.
Not exactly. We would have about 17 times more people living on earth,
feeding on vegarian diet, with all the associated nuisances
of that many people.
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