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Re: British Beef Situation
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Subject: Re: British Beef Situation
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From: cmb <cmb@chalex.demon.co.uk>
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Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 06:55:45 +0100
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Article: 11920 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Distribution: world
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Newsgroups: alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Organization: intermed maritime
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References: <416@vishwa.win-uk.net>
In article <416@vishwa.win-uk.net>, David Scott Libby
<dslibby@vishwa.win-uk.net> writes
>Why don't we castrate them and turn them to work as Oxen.
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>Forget beef altogether we can do without can't we? It would reduce
>a hell of a lot of forest destruction and would benefit numerous
>ecosystems.
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>We could simply keep the dairy industry going and use all males
>for draft work.
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>It'll give people jobs and the beasts won't have to suffer.
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>They do it in India, why not elsewhere?
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>Obviously it couldn't be done overnight. There probably aren't many
>farmers who would give up their warm tractor cabs for a bullock
>cart. But it's not beyond the realms of possibility.
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>A thought for the future/sustainability/employment and the
>re-vitalising of rural economy.
the last para is the most important; david's is not a practicable short
term solution, but unless we ask these questions, and find solutions, we
shall destroy ourselves (social collapse may well come before the
environoment is no longer able to sustain us) what is the real cost of
intensive farming? many of the urban unemployed would be delighted to
earn their keep in a rural environment....have todays economists and
agro-industrialists been an unqualified success? - I don't think so
good on you david - at least you're prepared to think beyond
conventional economics....
cmb
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