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Default Anti-Vegetarian Article in Denver paper

pearl wrote:

> "Ms Libertarian" > wrote in message 7.142...
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>>"pearl" > wrote :
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>>>"Ms Libertarian" > wrote in
>>>message
96.97.142...
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>>>>dh@. wrote :
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>>>>>From a grass raised dairy cow
>>>>>people get thousands of dairy servings.
>>>>
>>>>Yeah, AND meat. What could be more environmentally friendly.
>>>>Input grass and get meat and dairy products!
>>>
>>>'.. Livestock are directly or indirectly responsible for much
>>>of the soil erosion in the United States,

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>>So is the growing of crops, ace. You grow things and it turns
>>soil to food, it gets shipped off and someone somewhere else eats
>>it and poops it out in a different place, then guess what. It
>>turns back to soil. Whoa! Closed loop ecosystem.

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> Firstly, in the U.S, the total land area used for food crops
> is about 13 million hectares. For livestock, it's more than
> 302 million hectares


You're completely full of SHIT, you lying ****. There
are only 190.2 million hectares TOTAL under cultivation
in the U.S. Your numbers are SHIT, and so are you.

And it DOESN'T MATTER if a huge percentage of it is
used to produced food for livestock - that's how we
choose to use it, and it's our business.