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To: Ish who wrote (101062)	4/12/2005 6:22:49 PM
From: Grainne	Respond to of 108807

It we went back to heritage and stopped all the chemicals, the poor around the planet would be able to provide food for their families and to sell without paying Monsanto and similar companies for seed. This is the way it has been forever, and the way it should always be. Stripping seeds of their fertility is a very negative practice for the planet's health. Can you show me how stopping meat production, pesticide use and GMO seed stripping would reduce food production by 80%? Where are you getting those figures? I would like to see. Here are the real costs of meat production. Eating meat is cruel, and is degrading the environment everywhere it is produced by factory farming methods (almost everywhere): ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION: According to the World Watch Institute in Washington, there are few more inefficient ways to produce protein than through beef production. The grain needed to provide a family of four with just one serving of hamburgers could feed someone in a developing country for over a week. Approximately 16 pounds of vegetable protein (grain, soy, etc.) must be fed to cattle to produce one pound of animal protein. More than 50% of the grain grown in Alberta is fed to livestock. Vast amounts of energy, water and land are required to convert vegetation into meat. It takes 5 to 20 calories of fossil fuel to create just one calorie of energy in the form of meat; ¼ to ½ of a calorie of fossil fuel produces one calorie of plant food energy. In other words production of even the least energy-efficient plant food is nearly ten times as efficient as the most energy-efficient animal food. To produce one pound of meat takes an average of 10 tons of water - the amount a small family uses for all purposes in a month. An average chicken processing plant uses 100 million gallons of water in just one day; enough to service a community of 25,000 people for the same period. As well, wastes from feedlots and meat-packing plants may pollute nearby streams and rivers. One acre of land planted in legumes provides 10 times more available protein than the same acre used for meat production. Endangered wilderness areas in Alberta are also destroyed by cattle grazing and the deforestation of land to create new grazing space. One acre of trees is spared each year by a person on a pure vegetarian diet. Methane is a greenhouse gas. Cattle are one source of this gas. planet.eon.net