Dori Zook wrote: > >No stats to flesh things out (as it were), but the simple fact of thematter >is that land exists that cannot support plant foods but CAN be used to feed >animals. Here in Colorado alone, there are no doubt hundreds of thousands > of acres that could be put to good use. There are *very* few landscapes not suitable to plant foods. Wheat is not the only plant. There are a lot of fruit and nut trees. Barley grows in extreme climate. Here nearby on the island of fuerteventura - a lot of goats live- thats are suitable only to goats - too dry. These goats are milked they produce extremely good goat cheese. Milking yields 25 to 75 percent of the food eaten by the animal. I have never see n goat meat offered Very little meat grows on a very large area. > But vegetarians from the People's >Republic of Boulder would almost surely nip any such efforts in the bud. :) What would be their interest to nip there? Cheers Amadee