Hi,

Just would like to make some comments/observations about some of the 
replies I got from my post on "Nutrition Action and other things".

In North America the white man basically forced the native population off their 
land. In a sense they were displaced to reservations. I don't want to compare 
any people to animals but could you not say that farming displaced the animals 
that once were there? Yes, I realize that animals were killed because of 
farming but it is no longer happening day in and day out on the same piece of 
land (as oppossed to meat production).  

I live in the suburbs in a detached home which occupies a modest piece of 
land. Once, this land could have been occupied by people and many animals.
Should I be feeling guilty about this and donate my land back to the Indians 
with the provision that only native plants and animals be allowed back on it?

Human population growth, it seems to me, is the result of farming and farming 
requires land. 

I argue that certain areas should be free from human occupation (protected 
national parks). 
 
If all the 6 billion inhabitants of Earth became zero-carb eaters would we have 
the land or the resources to feed these people? 

Can anyone suggest some reading material that discusses the possibility of a 
non-farming solution to feeding mankind?

I'm not sure how much of this is valid but what about the case of over-fishing 
and the people of Japan? Is this a case where fish re-population can not keep 
with human demand? 

Also, someone made an argument that vegetation seemed to have the same  
"value" as an animal. Sorry, but I can't equate a carrot to a cow and I don't 
believe most people think like that.

Anyways, all this aside, I still am trying to go as low-carb as possible.

Regards,

Mike


 

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:29:14 +0100, Geoffrey Purcell 
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>Precisely. Agriculture has done a huge amount of damage to local wildlife. As 
a kid, I used to travel from London to Birmingham by plane and was horrified by 
the vast monoculture of hedge-free empty fields(after harvest), realising that 
little if any animal life lived there, due to pesticide-residues etc.By contrast, 
many hunters, such as those in royal families in past centuries, would routinely 
set aside special forests so that wild animals could thrive and repopulate the 
area after each hunting season.
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>> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:37:25 -0400
>> From: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Nutrition Action and other things
>> To: [log in to unmask]
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>> >> Another issue I find a bit hard to get around is the whole idea of 
>> >> killing. ...  At least when you're eating a tofu-burger there wasno 
>> >> violence involved in its production
>> You must not know about the millions of small animals killed when crops 
>> are reaped.  The fields are their home.
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