Lyman quotes

[Guest guest]

" Half of all of the endangered species in the U.S. today are threatened by

cattle ranching. We paid 105 million dollars to support public lands and

received less than 29 million dollars in grazing fees. 94% of Arizona is

public land; being grazed at less that 26 cents an acre. 99% of New Mexico

is grazed and it only receives about 4% of the trust income that is coming

from the ranchers that are out there. We are seeing today in cattle

ranching a loss of topsoil which is an astronomical amount for the amount

of each pound of beef that is being raised. You know, it takes 500 years

to produce one inch of topsoil. We haven't been here long enough to produce

an inch and we've already lost over three-quarters of the topsoil that we

had, much of it from the grazing of animals. "

 

" In North Carolina there is four times more waste from hogs than from all

of the people in the state of North Carolina. In the state of Utah there

is one hog farm that is producing more waste than all the people in the

city of Los Angeles, California. Look at the hundreds of millions of

dollars that are being spent on processing the human waste in the city of

Los Angeles and then look at a hog farm in Utah that is producing more

waste that is not spending anything on it. Hog waste today is 10 to 100

times more concentrated than anything that we ever saw in human waste. "

 

" In the Gulf of Mexico today there is a dead zone that is larger than the

state of New Jersey that is absolutely totally dead because of the

herbicides, pesticides and the wastes that are washing off the central part

of the country. "

 

--- Howard Lyman (from Vol. 01 of 3ABN's " Earth Talk 2003 " segments)