unless you are a master gardener like fukuoka, you're going to need to build your soil to grow crops, and i can't see anything but positives in small-to-medium scale animal husbandry, with its varieties of manure to enrich the compost pile.
even if you're a vegan and raise animals, i bet you can get a whole lot of lentils in trade for a rabbit or duck.
win/win!
~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
at least i didn't say 'designed'!
the ratio of 'canine' human teeth to the others, is pretty self-explanatory...
plus the length of our gut. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
I suppose you mean, "on the front of our heads". It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
So, veganism is not for everyone, as you say Melo... nor is pure carnivorism, though both are valid and potentially healthy human diets. Historically and pre-historically, a base of vegetable/cereal with occasional meat is probably the norm for the great majority of human groups : whether gatherer/hunter or small farmers.
In terms of bang for your buck, not all animals are equal. Pigs are more equal than others (as Orwell noted). Poultry are even better. I'm talking about the ratio of conversion of fodder into meat. Small farmers know this intuitively.
Beef is pretty lousy, except for the fact (assertion?) that there are large areas which are only good for grazing... however, in Europe at least, most of the cattle get most of their food from specially-grown crops, not from grass or hay.
I must look up the numbers for sheep meat. It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II
