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I read somewhere that going all out vegetarian would not necessarily be a solution. Animals are able to feed off poor soil that is not capable of producing crops. Therefore nutrition based solely on vegetarian foodsource would not be the best solution. Hugely reduced meat consumption, yes.

Have meet once a week, going down to twice a month - maybe every second Sunday a Roast and Fish on Fridays...

by PeWi on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 08:40:04 AM EST
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That would be returning to normal human levels of meat consumption then?
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 08:49:04 AM EST
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Well, my comment with the Sunday roast and fish was meant to be snarky and is really not base on what I had read/ heard. So that is really not based on anything.

Having said that. From a psychological point of view, it is probably easier to ween off meat consumption by slow reduction - as a special treat - that way, rather then a complete ban, it might actually be realised...

(Well I luuuuooove me Sausages, don;t I? And wouldn't want to be without them (-: )

by PeWi on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 08:56:27 AM EST
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Sausages are a good use of pigs, which are a useful way to process inedible agricultural products into usable protein and potentially useful biomass.

We're getting perilously close to setting me off on a rant about eating habits and no-one wants that.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 08:59:33 AM EST
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may I  set you off? ej je ej ej

meat once a week is more than enough?...or becom vegetarian now.... :) which one fits you better

A pleasure

I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 10:20:21 AM EST
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Feel free to rant ;-)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 10:53:38 AM EST
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Not to mention wasting less meat - huge amounts are thrown away - and using cheaper cuts of meat properly. Meat should be a relatively expensive luxury.
by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 08:57:18 AM EST
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Cheaper cuts used not to be wasted away. But then tree-huggers said feeding them to animals wasn't proper. Tsss....

Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 09:12:17 AM EST
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Tree huggers?  Wasn't it Mother Nature who had to remind the agribusinesses that cows and pigs, etc., aren't carnivores?

I'm guessing your comment was snark, though, right?

Karen in Austin

'tis strange I should be old and neither wise nor valiant. From "The Maid's Tragedy" by Beaumont & Fletcher

by Wife of Bath (kareninaustin at g mail dot com) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 09:18:05 AM EST
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Actually, as a PN point, pigs actually aren't picky:

Pig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pigs are omnivores, which means that they consume both plants and small animals. Pigs will scavenge and have been known to eat any kind of food, including dead insects, worms, tree bark, rotting carcasses, excreta (including their own), garbage, and other pigs.

When you think about it, they're inherently much lower-maintenance than cows.

The fact is that what we're experiencing right now is a top-down disaster. -Paul Krugman

by dvx (dvx.clt ät gmail dotcom) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 09:54:24 AM EST
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they shouldn't be thrown away...the fat should be rendered into biodiesel, blood and bone meal used for bio-adjuncts to soil and compost, and everything else good for petfood.

indians used every part of the buffalo, why can't we?

tsss....i know you were snarkin', linca

~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Wed Nov 14th, 2007 at 02:09:50 PM EST
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