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As I asked earlier, please give a bit more of an explaination, if you can
invent some more bullshit, er sorry, scientific research results.
Baz
I doubt crainal-rectally inverted, such as yourself, would understand,
but here goes. Please excuse the paucity of invectives that I know you
rely on to communicate, and apologies for lack of any pictures that are
probably necessary to maintain your attention. This forum is usually
used by adults, but give it a go anyway. You have nothing to lose, but
your profound ignorance.
I'm trying to get this information to you before you go into cognitive
collapse. A mind is a terrible thing to lose, but in your case it might
be an improvement ;O)
In response to your request, here is another paquet of information to
fill that void between your ears. Don't want that dormant organ in there
rattling around making noise, do we?
The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability by Lierre Keith
http://www.amazon.com/Vegetarian-Myt...ability/dp/160
4860804/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1281718588&sr=1-1
250 The Vegetarian Myth
Remember that pine forest that built one-sixteenth of an inch of soil in
fifty years? Cue those angels again: Salatin's rotating mixture of
animals on pasture is building one inch of'soil annually.4
Peter Bane did some calculations. He estimates that there are a
hundred million agricultural acres in the US similar enough to the
Salatins' to count: "about 2/3 of the area east of the Dakotas, roughly
from Omaha andTopeka east to the Atlantic and south to the Gulf of
Mexico."5 Right now, that land is mostly planted to corn and soy. But
returned to permanent cover, it would sequester 2.2 billion tons of
carbon every year. Bane writes:
That's equal to present gross US atmospheric releases, not
counting the net reduction from the carbon sinks of existing
forests and soils ... Without expanding farm acreage or remov-
ing any existing forests, and even before undertaking changes
in consumer lifestyle, reduction in traffic, and increases in
industrial and transport fuel efficiencies, which arc absolutely
imperative, the US could become a net carbon sink by chang-
ing cultivating practices and marketing on a million farms. In
fact, we could create 5 million new jobs in farming if the land
were used as efficiently as the Salatins use theirs.6
Understand: agriculture was the beginning of global warm-
ing. Ten thousand years of destroying the carbon sinks of perennial
polycultures has added almost as much carbon to the atmosphere as
industrialization (see Figure 5, opposite), an indictment that you,
vegetarians, need to answer. No one has told you this before, but that
is what your food‹those oh so eco-peaceful grains and beans‹has
done.7 Remember the ghost acres and the ghost slaves? What you're
eating in those grains and beans is ghost meat, down to the bare
bones of whole species. There is no reconciling civilization and its
foods with the needs of our living planet.
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I forgot to ask, can you read?
If so, do you have any questions about the information that I most
humbly have presented to you?
Or do you have no appreciation for the effort that I've made to help a
clueless soul, such as yourself?
I'm sure that you'll have some snappy response, like uh-uh. Don't feel
bad, some people just aren't literate.
Good luck, and try to get a life.
Now go away, you bother me.
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- Billy
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the
merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini.
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