On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:30:06 -0000, "Jim Webster"
> wrote:

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>"Buddenbrooks" > wrote in message
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>> "Jim Webster" > wrote in message
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>>> "pearl" > wrote in message
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>>>> "Buxqi" > wrote in message
>>>> news:ab0f0832-283c-411c-b7b9- .
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>>> And I hereby offer pearl the use of an acre so that she can prove to us
>>> all how she can survive on an acre in the UK with an vegan diet purely
>>> off that patch of land
>>>
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>>
>> I assume that there is a difference between a claim that one acre can
>> produce enough food for a person, and that a specific acre can do so.
>> A million acres can support a million people may be correct (or not).
>
>had I a million acres I might possibly be able to offer that ;-)
>It is just the fact that it is only when you put it in these hard practical
>terms that people realise exactly what is meant.

No jimmy it was a nonsense statement and has rightly been treated with
the contempt it deserves.

> For example the
>Mediterranean diet people talk about, in its classic form is shown us by the
>Spartan mess accounts which consisted of grain, wine, cheese, figs and
>opsonion, the latter mainly being olive oil. Meat was actually included but
>was provided at sacrifices, and came would probably be once or twice a week
>on average.

Was that in code or something?