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Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.
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Subject: Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.
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From: drddrd <DrD@super.zippo.com>
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Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 14:31:53 -0400
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Article: 12224 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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Robert Blackburn wrote:
> STOP EATING BEEF!
> Free our land for organic arrable farming / tree growing.
> Cows produce huge amounts of methane, which is a greenhouse gas.
>
I really would like for you to visit the western half of the North American
continent, the mid-latitude steppes of Asia, Patagonia, and the bulk of
Australia. And then I would like for you to tell me what kind of trees or
crops are going to grow in podzolic and other low organic matter soils
where the mean rainfall doesn't exceed 30cm per year and monthly mean
temperatures range from -5 to greater than 30C. The next task will be to
fill me in on how to harvest a profitable crop and still maintain
productivity over the long run without destroying the topsoil in these
ecosystems. And when you can give me an answer that is superior to a
self-replicating, mobile system, capable of converting the cellulosic
products of climax grasslands into a product that has sustained mankind
throughout his evolutionary history, I will be willing to listen to your
politically naive plans for humanity. Until then, I will regard you as an
extremist (read: idiotic fool) who has not the slightest idea of the role
of beef cattle and range management in helping feed a world gone slightly
mad.
Steve Denham
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