Guest guest Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 > As for the cow and grain, I had never thought of it that way.... sure makes sense to me. > > Trish Burrows It is discussed in Diet for a New America...I highly recommend it. Jen > In response to Miss Denise [cocoasunrise], children are starving > around the world because NOT ENOUGH people are insisting on eating salads. > According to Caryn Hartglass, executive director of EarthSave.org (who guest > lectured down here at the institute last month) the earth's agricultural > rescources used as they are now to feed animals for slaughter can only > properly feed 2.6 billion people. However, if feeding animals for > slaughter/consumption were removed from the equation, our present > agricultural resources could properly feed well over 11 billion people. > (Take fresh water for instance. Each cow requires many gallons of water and > many pounds of grain to raise; and each pound of GRAIN needs many gallons of > water to grow. Pound for pound, it takes 12,000 gallons of fresh drinkable > water to raise one pound of beef. 20 pounds of grain to raise each single > pound of beef. Imagine, each pound of beef sold at the super market taking > away 20 pounds of grain from the world's resources and 12,000 gallons of > fresh drinking water. Talk about greedy and self-serving!) > > Demand a salad and save the starving children of Bangladesh! > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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