Jennifer Dube' wrote:
 The fields
> that corn is grown on would have to lie fallow for up
> to 12 years in order to have enough nutrients to grow
> so much as a blade of grass, if they ever recovered
> from the herbicides & pesticides that continue to be
> pumped into them.

A bit of an exaggeration. Corn fields grow plenty of grass,
and other plants, weeds, even with all the pesticides. Leave
a corn field only a few months untilled and it is carpeted
with grass and other plants. In just a year trees start to
grow. It is a few years before a stable ecosystem starts to
appear. The first few years are all the hardy invasive species.
>
> People would have to die. That is a stark statement,
> and it takes a harsh academic mind to consider that
> that might not be such a bad thing. In my secret
> heart,

Stalin said, "A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths
a statistic."

Of course he presided over some 70,000,000 murders of his
own subjects, so I guess he knew something about the topic!
I suppose some might think all these deaths a good thing...?

Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, benefactors of the Earth. Who
would of thunk it!