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11-08-2003, 06:07 AM
Gordon Couger
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Feeding the World?
"Larry Caldwell" wrote in message
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(Don Foster) writes:
An exploration into the notion of how Iowa farmers would fare in feeding
the world produced an unlikely result: the soy and corn crops of
thirty-five Iowa(s) would feed the worlds population at 3500 Cal./day.
And the resultant malnourishment would kill people fast enough that there
would quickly be a large surplus.
Where did you get the idea that humans can thrive on a diet of corn and
soy?
I think they would die of pellagra in short order.
Gordon