On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:11 AM, Joseph McAllister <pentax...@mac.com> wrote:
> You realize, don't you, if we all went vegan to "save the animals", there > would not be enough flora food on the earth to feed us, and we'd go back to > killing animals for food, if they hadn't already all been killed to turn > their grazing land into farmland. It may sound like I'm splitting hairs here, but I'm not vegan to "save the animals", I'm vegan because I don't want to cause harm to or exploit animals. There's a difference. As my exploitation of flora, I don't eat wild veggies. All are raised on farms. Raising meat is much a much less efficient way of deriving nutrients from land and sun than fruits and vegetables (don't forget, we have to set aside lots of land to grow the food for the meat factories - er, livestock). There's more than enough plant life to feed the earth. On a related note, a group in Toronto is organizing a drive to pick backyard fruit, that normally goes unpicked, falls off the trees and rots in backyards all over the city. It's a really cool programme: http://www.eyeweekly.com/food/feature/article/24325 I read somewhere that in Toronto alone it's estimated that over three million pounds of "backyard fruit" remains uneaten every year. Extrapolate that worldwide and I'm thinking feeding the world wouldn't be such a big problem if we could focus our energies in the right places. cheers, frank ps: Joe, I recognize that your post was somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but I couldn't help responding anyway. ;-) -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
