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From: Rudy Canoza on 27 Aug 2008 00:12
On Aug 26, 5:22 pm, use...(a)mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr.
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Fact City 19
>
> Eating Meat Wastes Our Resources
>
> When it comes to resource and energy wastage, meat products
> are a class by themselves.
>
> Scientists compute the energy costs of foods by the value
> of the raw materials consumed in the production of that
> food. Frances Moore Lappe reports:
>
> A detailed 1978 study sponsored by the Department of
> Interior and Commerce produced startling figures showing
> that the value of raw materials consumed to produce food
> from livestock is greater than the value of all oil,
> gas, and coal consumed in this country.
>
> The same study revealed the equally startling fact that the
> production of meats, dairy products and eggs accounts for
> one-third of the total amount of all raw materials used for
> all purposes in the United States.
>
> In contrast, growing grains, vegetables and fruits for
> direct human consumprion is a model of efficiency, using
> less than 5% the raw material consumption as does the
> production of meat.
>
> Another way scientists compute the energy costs of various
> foods is to assess the amount of fossil fuel needed to
> produce them. An American scientist, David Pimental,

Not a scientist, of course.

> calculates that if the whole world were to eat according to
> wasteful U.S. agricultural practices, the planet's entire
> petroleum reserves would be exhausted in 13 years.

So, rupie, once *AGAIN*, we see that the bogus "inefficiency" argument
is *not* about environmental concerns, but is, as I have always
maintained, a *BOGUS* argument about resource allocation, and a
complete *misperception* of the notion of value.
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