The United States currently has 274 million people, not 376 million.

Arthur McConnachie
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From: "Kenny Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [P-F] yellow rice


> Not that I'm insensitive to these people in the
> developing countries, but has anyone mentioned
> overpopulation here?  In the US along, by 2010 the
> estimate is that we will double.  We are somewhere
> around 376 million right now.  Just wait till the
> governments make it manditory for everyone to be a
> vegetarian because there is no land to feed cows.  I'm
> sure your golf courses will still be in tact though.
>
> We better get started on terraforming Mars pretty
> soon.
>
> --- Bill Dooley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > What kind of a ridiculous thing will they come up
> > with next...
> >
> > If you're poor enough, it might not seem so
> > ridiculous. This is from the
> > Junkscience website   http://www.junkscience.com
> >
> > "'Frankenfood' Frenzy" - From Reason, "In the
> > developing world, a
> > million kids die and millions more go blind every
> > year because they
> > don't get enough vitamin A. Over 50 percent of
> > pregnant women in poor
> > countries are iron deficient, a condition
> > responsible for nearly 20
> > percent of all maternal deaths. The staple food in
> > many parts of the
> > developing world is rice -- a grain that doesn't
> > provide enough of these
> > essential nutrients. Until now."
> >
> >   http://www.reason.com/bi/bi-gmf.html
> >
> > I doubt that paleo is an option for those folks.
> >
> > Bill Dooley
> >
>
> =====
> -kb.
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