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Originally Posted by GGG
Actually we would have a larger world carry capacity if we reduced meat comsumption. Land currently being used for Corn and other cattle feed could be used to produce food for humans. THere is definately marginal land that can be most efficiently used for grazing but the conversion rate of plant calories to animal calories is something between 5 and 15 to 1.
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This may be, but with the growing movement towards ORGANIC vegetables, from the last information I saw (documentary, or online video I can't recall), the world could not support a vegetarian diet. This may not be incorrect, but without the use of modern pesticides etc, we could not support the earth's population.
On the other side of the coin, we aren't really supporting the earth's population right now either. Although it would supposedly be a larger portion of the population that would go hungry...
Meh, I'm too lazy to look up the info on where I saw that sooo..
Either way, I've been trying to eat less meat these days. If I could eventually turn that into being a vegetarian, then great, but extremely unlikely.
I think thats the big problem, we eat too much meat. It doesn't need to be a part of every meal.