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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: Combine'd' laziness
- Message-ID: <viking.727866067@vincent2.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: hunting sex beer false analogy ethics straw
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 09:01:07 GMT
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- unglenie@ford.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J Unglenieks) writes:
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- >There is more than the water reason to not eat meat, e.g., health, ethics,
- >and/or environment. Also, you wouldn't have to increase non-meat agriculture,
- >because the reported number of people who can be fed by the grains and soybeans
- >US cattle eat is 1.3billion (US population is about 250 million). Even if the
- >reported number is off by a factor of 5 [one monumental error] we could still
- >feed all americans.
-
- We already do. Farmland isn't being lost to cattle, it's being lost
- to suburbs. That being the case, feed goes to whomever pays for it. If you
- pay $3.00/bu for corn, and somebody else pays $4.00 for meat, the corn goes
- to the cow if it results in a profit. Fact of life, pal -- to the producer
- of the food, you're worth only what you will buy and in what form.
-
- Why else do you think Somolia is starving? Did you think the
- farmers of the world organized a boycott, or did you think they just
- give away their grain to needy causes?
-
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
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- < unusual people. And flame them. >
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