Yes, it is true.
I'm from there, (Saskatchewan) and all that need be for proof is go look.
Vast areas of hundreds of miles of cereal grains, not an animal in sight,  
and you can see forever in "Big Sky" country. If you were to walk in a  
grainfield and look between the stalks of plants, there is just plowed  
dirt, no trace of suitable habitat for mice, voles, pheasants etc.
Descriptions of the virgin prairie have it teeming with animal life. Now,  
for animal life, it is a desert.

Farmers always used to keep about 10% of their land wild, they used this  
as a woodlot for heating fuel. No more, they heat with oil or propane and  
have mostly plowed all that was wild.

No point in mentioning that to a vegetarian, they have faith.
Easier to convert a Catholic into a Protestant.

William



On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:16:35 -0500, Ashley Moran  
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> There's something I read a while that I would like to validate.  No idea  
> WHERE I read it - suggestions welcome.
>
> Basically: farming (especially grains), destroys a lot of the habitat of  
> wild animals, and therefore vegetarianism is responsible for the death  
> of more animals than hunting/husbandry.  I believe the specific example  
> was the north american plains, that were once teeming with buffalo, and  
> are now effectively wastelands.
>
> A few questions:
>
> Is this true?
>
> Does anyone have anything to support it?  (books, websites, etc)
>
> Has anyone ever mentioned it to a vegetarian?
>