Monday, August 4, 2003
Water, Water.
Water is vital for life, but the situation on the planet is getting out of hand. In America, more than half the water used each year goes to the production of livestock, with each beef animal, from birth to slaughterhouse, using sufficient water to float a destroyer. To produce 1 pound (.45 kg) of...
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Friday, August 1, 2003
The Poor Ol' Trees
We've already seen how land-hungry the production of meat is, compared to arable crops to support a vegetarian diet. Of course, that means taking land from our non-human neighbours, most obviously trees. A staggering 260 million acres (1.05 million square kilometers) of U.S forest has been cleared...
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Thursday, July 31, 2003
What About the Soil?
The land itself is of little use for food production if it's desert, or scrub. What makes it useful is the soil. So what effect is the current northern-hemisphere paradigm of industrial agriculture having on the soil? Well, since 1900, when such agricultural practices as intensive crop-growing in...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2003
Land Use
So is it sensible to be using land for livestock? Well, on an acre of land, which is 4,047 square meters, you can produce 20,000 lbs. (9,072 kg) of potatoes. On that same area, if it were used for cattle, you'll produce just 165 lbs. (75 kg) of beef. And despite the fact this is SO nonsensical, 56%...
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Tuesday, July 29, 2003
Wasteful & Lethal
The human population of the United States is around 300 million people. By comparison, the n umber of humans that can be fed by the grain and soybeans eaten by U.S. livestock is 1.4 billion people. Striking, isn't it? Of the corn grown in the U.S., 85% is eaten by livestock. For oats it's 95%. So...
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