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Old 05-06-2009, 11:17 AM   #414
Hack&Lube
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Originally Posted by Shazam View Post
Although your conclusions are mostly correct, your knowledge of food production is just as bad as Sowa's.
Please elaborate. Those things are all there. They do grind up chicken feathers as protein supplement (there's nothing wrong with that at all, unless it makes you cringe). They did use brain and spinal matter as feed as well that likely led to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow). But in the big picture of how large and massive in scale the entire food production industry in the world it, it doesn't really matter. Fertilizer is great. Antibiotics are used. In the long run, it is inevitable that resistant pests or microorganisms will evolve and adapt. GMO crops are amazing and should be the mainstay of the industry if the cost was lower due to the whole patent thing (like patent drugs). The efficiency of the food industry in reusing byproducts is what makes food so widespread and affordable.

I don't claim to be an expert in anything, much less food production. I just know what I've read and my general feelings of the big picture.

Last edited by Hack&Lube; 05-06-2009 at 11:23 AM.
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