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Re: John Hagelin: Old vs New Approach in Agriculture



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



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