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Re: Brashears on Hanson
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Subject: Re: Brashears on Hanson
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From: dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
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Date: 5 Dec 1996 20:44:35 GMT
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Article: 16981 of alt.sustainable.agriculture
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On Thu, 05 Dec 96 02:34:11 GMT, charliew@hal-pc.org (charliew) wrote:
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>So what do you propose? Sewage treatment for animal waste? This
>particular point is ridiculous, unless you are trying to tell me that we
>need to get rid of cattle, introduce a bunch of predators to keep animal
>populations down, and all become vegetarian.
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Charlie,
Containment and rational treatment for animal waste, including feces,
urine and offal, strikes me as really pretty fundamental. I can still
remember back in the early sixties when the feedlot operators
maintained that it was ridiculous to prevent them from simply dumping
both waste from the lots and offal from the slaughterhouses straight
into the Mississippi. It was a real bit of education for them to
realise that they were profiting at the expense of everybody
downstream, and it had to stop.
Now we find that every farm in the country is polluting their various
downstreams. Pounds of poisons where ounces should do. Tons of
fertilizers where pounds are called for. And every damn cow pissing
in the neighbours' water supply of six months later.
Yes, Americans should eat less meat, in order to improve their diet.
Yes, reintroduction of wolves is probably a god idea, if only to stop
the ungulates from breeding into moronity. And yes, everybody has to
larn that picking up your garbage is part of having a life.
-dlj.
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