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

On 5/23/2010 11:54 PM, Rupert wrote:
> On May 19, 6:07 am, "Fred C. >
> wrote:
>> On 5/18/2010 12:46 PM, Rupert wrote:
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>>> On May 19, 12:40 am, "Fred C. >
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 5/18/2010 2:18 AM, Rupert wrote:

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>>>>> On May 18, 8:13 am, > wrote:
>>>>>> On May 17, 9:51 pm, > wrote:

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>>>>>>> It takes a smaller amount of land to feed the human population on a
>>>>>>> plant-based diet than on an animal-based diet. What I said was
>>>>>>> obvious, thank you.

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>>>>>> While your claim might be theoretically correct, it ignores the fact
>>>>>> that all land is not arable and some non-arable land can be used for
>>>>>> grazing.

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>>>>> I doubt that that would affect the final outcome.

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>>>> It certainly does.

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>>> Do you have some data to back that up?

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>> Shove it, rupie - you know there is non-arable land used for grazing.

>
> We're talking about the proposition "It takes a smaller amount of land
> to feed the human population on a plant-based diet than on an animal-
> based diet"


We're not, ****wit.