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Re: John Hagelin: Old vs New Approach in Agriculture



Jeffrey Ranalletta <poa@expert.cc.purdue.edu> wrote:

>This is reply to Mr. Stehvan's comment about the resource ratio he 
>mentioned in his posting.

>Dear Sir:

>We do have fun times ahead. We have the chance as american 
>agriculturalists to face not only the challenge of feeding the world, 
>which is taken so much for granted that nobody cares, but saving untold 
>Earth area from habitat distruction.  

>Those third world countries are not going to 
>be third world countries for long.  They are going to want to eat just as 
>well as we do today in the very near future.  China's animal protien 
>intake rises at a pace equal to or better than it wealth.  With more 
>than a billion people eating that well, we as agriculturalists better keep 
>cracking at how to increase yield with the land we have now.  
>	I know the first response of "permacultrualists?" is to say quit 
>eating meat.  Right. That will be just as difficult as convincing 
>populations to stop reproducing.  It has not and will never work.  If 
>populations cannot be fed in a way that they want, they will burn any 
>forest to the ground, ignoring our pained cries about habitat.  
>	Folks, the answer is in our own back yard.  Let's take the leg-irons of 
>subsidies, trade restraint and over-reguation off the American farmer. 
>She is the best answer to habitat preservation the world has to offer.

>Direct your flames to:

>Jeff Ranalletta
>poa@expert.cc.purdue.edu

Jeff,

	Some years ago China instituted a state law that couples could only
have one (1) child. They recognized the limit of their resources. They
have made one hell of a sacrifice. 

Mike

P.S. They will have a nation where there are no aunts or uncles. 


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