brennan
Argumentative Brit
a) I never ignore things I know about.
b) Explain.
b) Explain.
Read your book, Mr. Gore!
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Dr Tiny
Warlord
By acres of feed production I assume you mean the acres of grass doing that crazy photosynthesis thang?
Ecofarm
Deity
Most of the time when we calculate the impact of industrial meat, we end the equation at the boundries of the meat facility itself. We do not include the millions of acres used to produce feed that are industrial production themselves. Then there is the disposal of waste from both the meat factory and the feed farms. Alot more goes into meat production that may appear at first glance. The antibiotics require energy to produce, the hormones, the pesticides and fertilizers of feed lots...
@Dr. Tiny: like industrial cows, pigs, etc eat naturally produced grass! haha
They eat low-grade industrially produced (fertilizer and pesticide intensive), high irrigation crops, processed into feed (and mixed with random animal parts - excluding cow brains and spinal columns).
You, sir, are in need of:
The Meatrix
@Dr. Tiny: like industrial cows, pigs, etc eat naturally produced grass! haha
They eat low-grade industrially produced (fertilizer and pesticide intensive), high irrigation crops, processed into feed (and mixed with random animal parts - excluding cow brains and spinal columns).
You, sir, are in need of:
The Meatrix
brennan
Argumentative Brit
Got any figures?
Dr Tiny
Warlord
@Ecofarm - crops don't photosynthesize?
If as you say, It requires 10 lbs of plant protein to produce 1 lb of animal protein. That seems an awful lot of CO2 would be sequestered from the atmosphere.....
oops, sorry Brennan my post was directed at Ecofarm.
If as you say, It requires 10 lbs of plant protein to produce 1 lb of animal protein. That seems an awful lot of CO2 would be sequestered from the atmosphere.....
oops, sorry Brennan my post was directed at Ecofarm.
brennan
Argumentative Brit
Er, no, obviously not.
I think we may be talking at cross-purposes.
I think we may be talking at cross-purposes.
Ecofarm
Deity
Not off-hand, but worldwatch.org probably has some decent ones.
The UN numbers cited by peta are probably rather inclusive as well.
