At 14:16 26/02/1999 -1000, you wrote:
>>axel (on sustainability in food consumption):
>>
>>all this could be done in a world with much less people. in a world like
>>ours, it is not possible to come up with a sustainable way of having all
>>people have meat if they want. it is just impossible, considering the size
>>of the earth and the number of people
>
>Perhaps you could share some of this mathematical certainty?
>
>>nothing in
>>the world is more damaging at all levels than animal husbandry. i am not
>>exaggerating at all
>
>Sure, you are. Perhaps you can explain these various levels and how damage
>is done...?
hi, kirt. i saved this message for later answering. i am busy right now,
otherwise i would quote a zillon things for you, but i have read about this,
i am not making it up. read for example "beyond beef", by jeremy rifkin
(comprehensive analysis of the many impacts of animal husbandry in the past
and currently), "waste of the west", by Lynn Jacobs (an AMAZING book,
eventhough i do not live in the states, but the guy did an incredible
research into all aspects of cattle ranching in the west of the united
states). there are other things damaging in the earth, but if you have to
single out a human activity, the worst is animal husbandry. just read the
statistics and try to find out something worse. simply put, eating high in
the food chain is more energy consuming and needs more land, more water,
more deforestation, more altering natural environments, etc. this is common
lore. vegans can exaggerate it or distort it, but the fact remains that
raising animals to eat them and their products wastes energy compared to
vegetable foods. animals eat to live and all this food has to be grown
somewhere. there are hundreds of millons of animals being raised for human
consumption.
the worldwatch institute has published info saying for example that the
increased wealth in china is causing a growing demand for grain-feed cattle
there and because there are a lot of chinese , this could alter the whole
worldīs grain market. i think there is a "beyond beef" web site, i am not sure.
later,
axel makaroff
PS: the above does not imply that animal products canīt be good for you!
they are just environmentally wasteful. thatīs all.
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