You make a post using a persons false assumption about bushels of food per acre;
plants versus animal.

Being a vegetarian is about less fat and cholesterol in your diet. It is about
living longer with less medical costs. Forget the fact that it takes more farming
to grow grain and feed to animals and then eat the animals. It is about less
farming needs and therefore less herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers in the
rivers I catch trout and salmon in. Your entire premise is exactly backwards and
embarrassingly stupid!

You have made a fool of yourself. For the vast majority of people that live on a
plant only diet it is not because they love Bambi in her forest home, it is because
of poverty. They have little land and the implements to grow with. The huge list of
claims are made by misinformed person, much like yourself!



Your

LizH228 wrote:

> Here is a letter to the editor taken out of yesterday's Denver paper (Rocky
> Mountain News):
> Letters to the Editor, February 10
> February 10, 2004
>
> Worldwide vegan diet would be catastrophic
>
> With the recent mad cow disease scare I've noticed a lot of people have
> suggested that we all eat vegetarian. Let's think about that for a minute. Here
> are a few reasons why a total vegetarian planet would be a horrific idea:
>
> 1. We would have to clear billions of acres of land, rainforests, national
> parks, etc., to make room to grow crops.
>
> 2. Deer, elk, cattle, sheep, goats, etc., would wreak havoc on those crops
> because their natural food source would no longer be available to them. We
> would not like that and we would insist that someone do something about it.
> What do we do? Shoot them? Chase them away? To where? We would come to look at
> them as "pests." These predators would eventually become extinct due to lack of
> natural prey.
>
> Until then, I'm sure they would find humans pretty tasty.
>
> 3. Without humans and predators keeping down their populations, deer, elk,
> etc., will die from sickness, disease and overcrowding, eventually becoming
> extinct themselves.
>
> 4. With no room to breed livestock, many goods and foodstuffs, like wool and
> dairy products, will no longer be available.
>
> 5. Our oceans would be fished to extinction. Yes, all the vegetarians I know
> eat fish and seafood.
>
> 6. Without rainforests, global warming will accelerate out of control, creating
> floods in many parts of the world and drought in others.
>
> 7. What would happen if we had a drought? A lot of human deaths would occur, of
> course, but our crops will die, too. The planet will become a desiccated
> tinderbox waiting for something to ignite it.
>
> Human beings are omnivores, meaning we eat fruits, vegetables, nuts . . . and
> meat. If you wish to eat vegetarian, fine. In fact, if we all decided to be
> totally carnivorous (eating only meat products) a similar worldwide catastrophe
> would occur. We need to be omnivorous. Otherwise, this planet will die.
>
> We'll be moving to Mars a lot sooner than we think.