At 09:16 2001-12-18 -0600, Jim Cales wrote:
> if all the land currently
>used to grow grain was returned to it's natural setting ( grass plains and
>dense forest ) there would be more wild game than one can even begin to
>consider eating.

It would not be ebough at all. Thinkl of the number of hunter/gatherer
plains indians before the palefaces arrived. That is about what that
region can feed. Here in Sweden we are 9 millions. In h/g times it
was no more than a thousand or two. Of course we can get more cattle
on the land if we keep it free from forests and use industrial fertilizers,
but it will still be very very far from enough.

Humanity is caught in the agrarian trap until we start researching for
other non ways for food production. I am pretty shure that insects
would have to be a very important part of the diet, and also roots.

- Hans