"Leif Erikson" > wrote in message .net...
> pearl wrote:
>
> > "Ms Libertarian" > wrote in message 7.142...
> >
> >>"pearl" > wrote :
> >>
> >>
> >>>"Ms Libertarian" > wrote in
> >>>message
> 96.97.142...
> >>>
> >>>>dh@. wrote :
> >>>
> >>>>>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,
> >>
> >>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.
> >
> >
> > 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 ****.
Projection.
http://www.iol.ie/~creature/boiled%20ball.html
> There
> are only 190.2 million hectares TOTAL under cultivation
> in the U.S.
'The 7 billion livestock animals in the United States consume
five times as much grain as is consumed directly by the entire
American population.
...
About 26 million tons of the livestock feed comes from
grains and 15 million tons from forage crops.
...
More than 302 million hectares of land are devoted to
producing feed for the U.S. livestock population -- about
272 million hectares in pasture and about 30 million hectares
for cultivated feed grains.
...
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases...stock.hrs.html
> Your numbers are SHIT, and so are you.
Projection.
http://www.iol.ie/~creature/boiled%20ball.html
> 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.
"Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been
poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize
we cannot eat money." - Chief Seattle