So I was off by a 100 million, big deal.  <g>  I had
heard it on the radio while in one of my low carb
dreams.

Btw, has anyone actually been sleeping on the floor or
a mat with no pillow lately?  I found that I am much
more flexible among other things.


--- Arthur McConnachie <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The United States currently has 274 million people,
> not 376 million.
>
> Arthur McConnachie
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kenny Brown" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 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
> > >
> >
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