what's a sample of a three day menu?
At 02:48 PM 5/24/2006, Carrol Cox wrote:
>Andy F wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't read Singer, but from the Alternet article it sounds like
> > he's is making a point about environmental resource use -- that
> > there's not enough to equally share use of animal products among
> > humans, plus leaving something for the critters. My fear is that he
> > might have a point with that....
>
>I and others on this list has made the following point a number of
>times. It applies to longterm conditions, not the immediate present, but
>that seems to be the context of the present thread.
>
>A huge amount of the world's available protein exists in the form of
>plants (e.g., grass) that the human stomach cannot digest. There also
>exists huge expanses of the planet (e.g., the Great Plains of North
>America) which, because of the limits on water supply, should not be
>plowed but should grow grass only.
>
>Over the long haul, among the consequences of these conditions, are (1)
>a great _reduction_ of meat in the diet and (2) the continued place of
>meat as a core part of the human diet, since the protein in grass &
>other plants only becomes available after being processed through
>animals. Less meat, much less meat -- no grain fattened cattle -- but
>never _no_ meat.
>
>This is not a moral issue.
>
>Carrol
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