I don't hunt wild meat, Ardeith. My cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens are fed
on hundreds of thousands of acres of land used for animal feed. Vegetarians
are just eating grains directly instead of waiting until they fatten up
animals. I believe that you are hinting at population problems which, if not
addressed, will and probably already have destroyed a great deal of habitat.
This is sad (and scary). It's discussed in Daniel Quinn's ISHMAEL.

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>From: ardeith l carter <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [P-F] food production for the masses
>Date: Tue, Mar 7, 2000, 7:54 AM
>

> On Tue, 7 Mar 2000 05:53:10 -0600 Justine Shrider
> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> The vegetarians I know are all ages. They try to eat wholesome,
>> unprocessed
>> foods. They believe in "living lightly on the land" and tend to be
>> independent thinkers.
>
> Ardeith writes:
> How does putting hundreds of thousands of acres of land
> to the plow to raise wheat, barley, rye, beans, corn, and all
> the other grains and vegetables constitute "living lightly
> on the land"?   I think vegetarians pat themselves on the
> back far too often in this regard.....without justification.
>
> In "Diet for a Small Planet" I remember reading something
> about how much food....protein, I think....could be reaped
> from ten acres of land.   The comparison was between
> how much vegetable protein could be grown vs how much
> animal protein.........seems more vegetable protein could
> be grown, which would feed more people......which I
> think is the root of the whole thing.......this planet doesn't
> need to be feeding more people at the expense of other
> lifeforms.
>
> Every now and then I have a nightmare about this little
> world of ours......one in which every scrap of land is
> covered with human crops.....the only trees are those
> that can live in very high rocky land or in swamps that
> are too big to drain........no animals.....except our pets
> that we can feed the same stuff people eat......diversity
> gone......the planet becomes one huge food production
> organism to feed humans......awful...........and the humans
> live underground or in towers..........equally awful....
> IMNSHO.................
>
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