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Default The myth of food production "efficiency" in the "ar" debate

Jim Webster wrote:
> "Jill" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Julie wrote:
>>> Horse shit!!! is around in abundance. In fact the world cannot give
>>> it away these days, more than enough to go round.

>> With plenty of wormers and other substances in which would kill the insect
>> life in the soil.
>> Clever one
>> There are also not enough equines in the right places so you would be
>> increasing your carbon footprint drastically moving this high bulk low
>> quality item around the country.
>>

>
> interesting that pete advocates keeping equines as pets.


Took me a while to spot his grubby fingerprints all
over "Julie's" posts.


> The one problem with them is that actually their muck only fertilises the
> areas they are in. If you haul their muck away, then you have to find
> something to replemish the fertility of the area they are grazing
>
>> Then we have seaweed
>>
>> So you are advocating stripping and decimating our marine environment to
>> produce food for too many people, let alone the colossal transportation
>> problems and its effect on any carbon footprint.
>>
>>> etc In fact we could always go back to what farming is really about.
>>> Farming and working with nature!

>
> good old fashioned organic rotation, alternating livestock and cropping
>
>> Ahhh that is your method of population control :-- starvation and disease.
>> I know there had to be some logic somewhere.
>>

>
> The interesting bit is what we use in the UK when we can no longer out bid
> the Chinese for soya. Ironically they seem happy to pay more to use it for
> animal feed than we are to use it for human consumption
>
> Jim Webster
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