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On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:47:18 -0700, Rudy Canoza wrote:
"Raising meat is economically inefficient. Meat animals, such as cows, pigs and chicken, eat plant food. Instead of just growing the plants and eating them, to get meat, we grow plants, feed the plants to the animals, then eat the animal. This, from a purely economic perspective, wastes a lot of resources." http://www.hereandok.com/Inventions.html Couldn't get plainer than that. This ****wit isn't concerned about the environment, he's *explicitly* concerned about economic "inefficiency", Probably not, Goo. Does he appreciate and promote situations where raising animals is more efficient than raising crops, like he does when raising crops is more efficient than raising animals? Without even knowing the details I feel confident that the answer is: NO! Or maybe even more correctly: NEVER! If I'm right about that Goob, then efficiency is not the true objection either. People cut and burn forest areas to grow crops like corn or soy, but it only lasts for a few seasons before the quality of the ground can't support that type crop any more, so I believe then they grow something like wheat for as many seasons as they can get, then when it can't support that any more they try to grow grass so they can raise livestock. From what I understand that's the general cycle Goo. If after a few seasons of grass the land won't support even that any more, then it seems that if they had started with the grass and hadn't grown more demanding crops to begin with, they could have gotten more efficiency out of the land and been able to grow grass for many many more seasons. Even if they can grow grass as long as they want after they have depleted it with the more demanding veggies, grass/livestock eventually becomes the most efficient way of obtaining human food from some of the land on this planet, but some people not only don't point that out but instead don't want to see it taken into consideration at all. |