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Default Can we do better?

pearl wrote:
> "Autymn D. C." > wrote in message oups.com...
> > pearl wrote:
> > > http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases...stock.hrs.html

> >
> > Hmm, these seem like meat costs five times less to transport than
> > grains, by heft. Remember that the sun pays for feed, for free.

>
> ???


!!!

> > > 272,000,000 x 7.5 = 2,040,000,000 animals dying in pasture.

> >
> > > over twice as much land is harvested for livestock, ergo
> > > over twice as many collateral deaths than for food crops.

> >
> > dying how??

>
> Sowing, spraying, harvesting- every pass of the machinery.


Let the animals do it.