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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:21:47 GMT, "ontheroad" <stop@stop.com> wrote:

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>"Jim Webster" <Jim.Webster@pagebankfarm.com> wrote in message 
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>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:13:38 GMT, Simon Harding <srharding@tesco.net>
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>snip ignorant spew...
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>> Veggies use far less resources.
>========
>care to prove this is true for all veggies and all meats....
>I suggest that the veggies you eat cause far more damage and killing than 
>the meats I eat.
>
>The meat I eat requires NO massive inputs from the petro-chemical industry 
>that you love to support with your
>veggie production.   It requires no massive amounts of man-power or 
>machinery.  Too bad your veggies all require far more
>resources than any of the meat I eat. 
>

It's been discussed everywhere, and fact.

Here's an example.


From: j...@mantra.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj)
Subject: Eating Meat Wastes Our Resources
Message-ID: <J+9KwQ9zBYJW084yn@mantra.com>#1/1

Eating Meat Wastes Our Resources

"When it comes to resource and  energy wastage, meat products are a
 class by themselves.

"Scientists compute the energy costs of  foods by the value  of the
 raw  materials consumed  in the  production of  that food. Frances
 Moore Lappe reports:

 "'A detailed  1978 study sponsored  by the Department  of Interior
   and Commerce  produced startling figures showing  that the value
   of  raw materials  consumed to  produce food  from livestock  is
   greater than  the value of  all oil, gas,  and coal consumed  in
   this country.'

"The  same  study  revealed  the  equally  startling  fact that the
 production  of  meats,  dairy   products  and  eggs  accounts  for
 one-third of  the total amount of  all raw materials used  for all
 purposes in the United States.

"In  contrast, growing  grains,  vegetables  and fruits  for direct
 human consumprion is a model of efficiency, using less than 5% the
 raw material consumption as does the production of meat.

"Another way  scientists compute the energy  costs of various foods
 is to assess the amount of  fossil fuel needed to produce them. An
 American scientist,  David Pimental, calculates that  if the whole
 world  were  to  eat   according  to  wasteful  U.S.  agricultural
 practices,  the  planet's  entire   petroleum  reserves  would  be
 exhausted in 13 years.

"- 'Raw Materials in the United States Economy 1900-1977,'
     Technical paper 47, Vivian Spencer, U.S. Department  of
     Commerce, Bureau of Mines, pg 3.
"- Lappe, F.M., 'Diet For A Small Planet,'
     Ballantine Books, New York, 1982, Tenth Anniversary Edition.
"- Reid, J.T., 'Comparative Efficiency of Animals in the
     Conversion of Feedstuffs to Human Foods,'
     Confinement, April 1976, pg. 23.
"- Hur, Robin and Fields, David; 'How Meat Robs America of its
     Energy,' Vegetarian Times, April 1985."
 - Robbins, John, DIET FOR A NEW AMERICA,
     Stillpoint Publishing, Walpole, N.H., 1987.

     Last year in Hawaii, we started perhaps the nation's only
government-sponsored campaign to include more plant-based foods in
our diet.  
     The taxpayer-funded nutritional education program targets kids
and parents alike in our public school system. 
     What is more, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
Washington, D.C., has concluded that not only is an animal-based
diet unnecessary, but is actually harmful.
     In Bharat (also known as India), large-scale efforts are being
undertaken to educate both medical practitioners and the general
population about the benefits of a vegetarian lifestyle.
     The benefits of the healthy, plant-based food culture contrast
sharply the terrorism the animal-eating habit wages on our body,
others and the environment.  That is a future we can all live with.