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 On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 16:46:58 -0500, penny  wrote: 
  
 >You must have a very busy life. 
  
 Indeed I do. 
 But not too busy to waste time on usenet. 
  
  
 >The vegetarians are not in competition with any "meat" 
 >If people gave up eating commercial meat, more  than the population of 
 >this planet could be fed on grain. 
  
 You should take a two week trip into China and take a very good look 
 at the vegetarian diet they have there. Not by choice either.  There 
 is no land left for the wildlife. 
 Cereal crops displace wildife habitat, they are a monoculture that 
 does not provide the wildlife with all the requirements to survive. 
 In some places the wildlife have to be fenced out of their tradional 
 habitat so that crops of vegetables can be grown. 
  
  
 >The world's cattle alone consume a pile of food that'e equivalent to 
 >the caloric needs of 8.7 billion people. 
  
 And is this the same quality of food that people can eat? 
 Your average cow has four stomaches and the ability to digest a whole 
 lot of plant cells that the average human can not. 
  
 Cattle, goats, sheep, pigs, and chickens all allow humans to live in 
 areas that would not support humans with the local crops they could 
 grow. 
  
  
  
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