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To: elmatador who wrote (64886)	6/13/2005 7:57:00 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Re: Extensive areas in Brazil and in the US used for cattle extensive cattle raising (not the confined cattle raising that doesn't use much land) can be switched to agriculture. That is possibly the case in Brazil, but in the U.S., cattle production has become industrialized. The market cattle in this nation are only briefly "on the range". Very quickly the young heifers are rounded up and sent to concentration camps, er, concentrated feed lots from which they don't escape until sent to the abattoir. Cattle production in the U.S. is a completely unnatural process for the most part. The sort of open range cattle that roam certain portions of the U.S. West are on lands that are simply too dry and too far from irrigation sources to ever be considered for agricultural production.