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Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.
In article <31850B19.3143@super.zippo.com> drddrd <DrD@super.zippo.com> writes:
>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.
GROW HEMP! Produces 4 times the cellulose per acre as timber,
Produces edible oil and seed,
does not deplete soil but actually improves it.
For more complete inforamation do a web search, keyword Hemp!
Todd:-)
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