----- Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Primates hunting, chimps vs bonobos
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> Ian Murray wrote:
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> > Buffalo burgers anyone?
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> > Ian
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> Actually, that may be more a prediction of the future than a
joke today.
> Perhaps buffalo are the only ruminant appropriate to the great
plains.
> At least there would have to be a radical reduction but _not_ an
> elimination of beef production worldwide. I don't know enough
about the
> differences between cattle and buffalo to know whether that
shift would
> have to be made.
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> Carrol
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I meant it partly as a joke and partly as something that should be done given the knowledge of the pre-16th century North American ecology.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8985.html
Ernest Callenbach Bring Back the Buffalo! A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains