[Note: this message has the wrong "Reply To"] Stephen A. Lawrence wrote:
>This is sophistry at its finest: > >> "The contrived food vs. fuel debate has reared its ugly head once It sure is. >Meat production is hideously inefficient (post-processing soy beans by >feeding them to cows, instead of turning them into tofu, is economically >insane), and meat production is the largest single contributor to global >warming (or so I have read). I have read that it is about 10%. Surely that is less than electric power or transportation. Anyway it is a lot. But help is on the way! Progress is being made in in vitro or "cultured" meat. See: http://invitromeat.org/content/view/14/29/ http://io9.com/379280/vat+grown-meat-about-to-hit-your-local-market - Jed
