Home |
Search |
Today's Posts |
#11
|
|||
|
|||
Vegans, facts, ranting, bigotry and other related subjects....
Michael Percy wrote in message ... Oz wrote: Michael Percy writes I do not mean Sahel, but a good part of Sahel must be arid. By all means post how much beef is produced from it if you know. I've been to parts of it, and similar areas round kenya-Tanzania. They are almost all pastoralists (like the masai) although in wetter areas some grain is grown. It's not the sort of place that does government records, and even if they did I wouldn;t believe them. Of course livestock must be of extreme importance to people living from arid land. They can't grow a crop! My point is if the land is arid, it will carry only a low density of people and livestock. If as I suspect only a few % of all beef cattle feed is produced from arid land, it seems silly to seek justification THERE for the use of ressources for beef production. One does that much better by pointing to the quite efficient use of ressources in mixed farming livestocking system in more rainfed areas. check with the Israeli's, the Negev and much of Israel is arid but it doesn't stop them growing an awful lot of crops on it. Indeed the whole of the top end of the Persian Gulf is arid but civilisation developed in Mesopotamia Arid never stopped anyone provided you could ship water in somehow. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' Mike |
Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Forum | |||
Joke--not for vegans or vegetarians. | Gardening | |||
Tinaroo Dam [Was: Vegans, facts, ranting, bigotry and other related subjects....] | sci.agriculture | |||
Neutron probes [Was: Vegans, facts, ranting, bigotry and other related subjects....] | sci.agriculture | |||
Sugar cane [Was: Vegans, facts, ranting, bigotry and other related subjects....] | sci.agriculture | |||
Malaysian Trumpet Snails - Keeping them alive? and other Related Ideas | Freshwater Aquaria Plants |