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Old 08-02-2010, 10:22 PM   #35
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My biggest concern with organics and free range is essentially you are increasing the foot print in takes to produce meat. Meat is one of the most enviromentally destructive and wasteful processes taking 5 to 9 times more energy to produce than plant matter.

So in terms of world carrying capacity the best choice would be veggie but I love meat too much but after that the slaughterhouse model can produce more meat per unit of input energy and be cheaper and more affordable than the organic counterpart.
There is a difference between eating a free-range beef steak twice a week vs. a factory-farmed one 5 days a week.

Mention not eating meat for dinner once or twice a week to an albertan, and you get some pretty hilarious looks.
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