On 06/12/2014 09:55 AM, Drew Lawson wrote:

Can you be more specific. Which fats do you say should be grown?

Any kind that doesn't come from a test tube.

Interesting response from someone who advicates more hybridization
of our food crops.

You are not following. All produce we eat has been
hybridized for one thing or another.

When I say "test tube", I mean synthetic. Not found
in nature.

I also include in that "gene splicing" (a.k.a GMO).
When you hybridize a plant, you are doing it the
old fashioned way. Not splicing genes from a weasel
onto a dove.


Grow cows. I love to eat cows too. What a silly argument.

Perhaps you can show me a cite for a means to raise cattle that
produces anywhere the same calories/acre that grain does. Without
that, your proposal still reduces the effective food supply.

You missed the point. On soil that won't grow anything
else other than cellulose (grass), grow cows (livestock)
on it. Use the good soil to grow other stuff.

Every summer out here in Nevada, since the Fed took over
managing it from the ranchers, we have range land fires.
Some of the localities bring in sheep to mow the
cheat grass off the hill sides to help prevent these
fires. AND YOU GET TO EAT THEM AFTERWARDS! It is
a good use of land that would not otherwise grow
anything edible. (Lamb -- YUK! Okay, other gets to
eat them.)

-T