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To: elmatador who wrote (93096)	8/1/2012 8:53:57 AM
From: Maurice Winn	2 Recommendations Respond to of 217688

What if the rest of us become more like Indians, with little meat consumed? Many people who have free choice on what to eat are choosing to eat less meat or no meat, simply from preference. Some go with it for ideological reasons [save the animals]. The oceans are absurdly huge. It would not be a big problem to build vast ocean aquaculture systems in what is mostly ocean with little life in it. With improved CO2 levels, food supplies for an oceanic food chain are more easily developed, from algae on up. As Hawkmoon points out, iron is a vital nutrient missing from the foundations of the ocean food chain in many areas. Iron is cheap. So are other nutrients needed to feed plants then the fish that depend on them. There is a tendency to think everyone around the world wants to be like Americans, with a dirty great SUV roaring around a freeway to an all you can eat steak-based smorgasbord then shopping at malls and on-line for tons of machinery and gear to play with. "OMG the world is going to run out of resources". No it's not. Even if everyone did go American, there is no shortage of dirt, rocks and bitumen or limestone to build roads and no limit on carbon to fuel SUVs, and that carbon is purely recycled from cellulose. Any amount of steak can be produced by multi-storey crop farms if there isn't enough land. Peak People is coming in 2037 [officially predicted several years ago], if not sooner if a humanized avian or other flu goes pandemic. The proportion of the world's GDP going to basic food [not fancy comestibles in fancy settings] is shrinking and is now insignificant in the wealthy world, aka "the west" which includes Japan, increasingly China, South Korea etc. No worries ElM. Mqurice