Global Warming?

[Short Game]

So, my being a vegetarian helps 54 other people get a unit of protein each time I don't eat meat?

 

[patrick_g]

"If all the grain currently fed to livestock in the United States were consumed directly by people, the number of people who could be fed would be nearly 800 million," David Pimentel, professor of ecology in Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, reported at the July 24-26 meeting of the Canadian Society of Animal Science in Montreal. Or, if those grains were exported, it would boost the U.S. trade balance by $80 billion a year, Pimentel estimated."

Rob

Or if we quit kidding ourselves about grain to ethanol for motor fuel we'd have enough grain for people and cattle.

 

[tallyho8]

The world needs less people not less cows.

This is where I agree with you 100%. Also, this would solve a majority of the world's environmental problems.

 

[Rob-D]

Or if we quit kidding ourselves about grain to ethanol for motor fuel we'd have enough grain for people and cattle.

Another monster of corporate lobbies.

Let's not kid ourselves here. When Monsanto can sue Vermont, when they can patent life, the show is just about over.

 

[Rob-D]

Grass fed beef on land not suitable for crops. That is a growing trend, that's what I raise. I could sell more but I only have ten acres.

The only way you're making a living raising beef on ten acres is if you're bringing in grain. Either that or it's a 'hobby' farm.
Rob

 

[powerpace]

The only way you're making a living raising beaf on ten acres is if you're bringing in grain. Either that or it's a 'hobby' farm.
Rob

Never said I make a living at it. That is not the bread and butter. I raise cows horses and chickens and bees. I do have to buy some hay for the steers. No hormones no vitamins, wormer only. I buy some grain for the horses in winter. They don't get any hay other than grass. Contrary to what a trader will tell you a horse gets along just fine on grass hay. The chickens get some feed but they free roam.

 

[newbury]

Populations of Countries that have a near starvation diet usually have a ineffective government.

And bleeding heart people, both liberals and conservatives, in Europe and North America are determined to save them, feed them, and let them breed. And they have been very effective at it for the last 60 years.

If we hadn't basically treated them like pets (raising them, feeding them and letting them overbreed) they could easily feed themselves with modern agriculture.

The total number of people in Africa grew from 221 million in 1950 to 1 billion in 2009, this does not take into account those that emigrated to Europe and the US and there seems to be no net immigration statistics into Africa. The US grew from 151 million to about 300 million in the same time period (but about 40 million of the 300 million is immigrants). The world went from 2.5 billion to about 7 billion, and there is no immigration or emigration from Earth.

If the world had only doubled in population we wouldn't be so worried about climate change. And perhaps there would be less pollution.

 

[ham]

Good grief. I can not believe this topic still exists.