<div>you're more than likely right ! annoying mind confusing claims, even in interesting articles !</div>
<div>so you're saying so-called farming practices have damaged the earth. </div>
<div>did you see this chart of what would happen if there were suddenly no humans around:</div>
<div><a href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/doom_1.php">http://www.treehugger.com/files/doom_1.php</a></div>
<div>i figure 50,000 years about does it. Or we could just treat the earth with respect</div>
<div>and live in a healthy environment.</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin J. Smith</b> <<a href="mailto:hockeysk8@gmail.com">hockeysk8@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This was a very good article but it wrongly tries to tie increased land resource use on organic farming when that is simply not the case. An organic carrot and a chemical laden carrot take up the same amount of space. In the article, land use problems were always in conjunction with producing meat and dairy products. A meat/dairy based diet simply does not scale. In our attempts to scale meat and dairy production and drive profits we have perverted the concept of farming so far that we can't reverse the practices to anything close to acceptable from a natural/humane/organic perspective. And as such, they are having difficulty meeting the demand for organic meat and dairy products. This further crystallizes in my mind that the only hope for our society is to adopt a plant based diet, if not for ethical reasons then for the simple survival of our own species.
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">uHuman</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:uhuman@gmail.com" target="_blank">uhuman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div>The Organic Myth <br><font size="+0">Pastoral ideals are getting trampled as organic food goes mass market</font></div>
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