The myth of food production "efficiency" in the "ar" debate
On May 19, 12:40*am, "Fred C. Dobbs" >
wrote:
> On 5/18/2010 2:18 AM, Rupert wrote:
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> > On May 18, 8:13 am, > *wrote:
> >> On May 17, 9:51 pm, > *wrote:
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> >>> It takes a smaller amount of land to feed the human population on a
> >>> plant-based diet than on an animal-based diet. What I said was
> >>> obvious, thank you.
>
> >> While your claim might be theoretically correct, it ignores the fact
> >> that all land is not arable and some non-arable land can be used for
> >> grazing.
>
> > I doubt that that would affect the final outcome.
>
> It certainly does.
Do you have some data to back that up?
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