rick etter wrote:
>>>>yes, and Rick Etter is promoting this effect by promoting his grass fed
>>>>beef
>>>>agenda
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>>>
>>>Nope, especially since my diet, descenteds', and yours are not tied to
>>>the sahara.
>>>
>>>I suggest you and beachbum learn a few real facts about the
>>>desertification that has been ongoing for 1000s of years...
>>>Again, for the reading impaired, crop production is habitat destruction
>>>and environemntal desturction. Using natuarl grass lands as they are
>>>and have been is not.
>>
>>You can take that a step further, Rick. Where's the evidence for mass
>>desertification caused by human activity (much less grazing) anyway?
>>Consider the following.
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> Whoa Usual, don't hit 'em with too much at once!

I realize they have learning disabilities, either organic or diet-related, but
they need to hear the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

> they first have to learn
> that cows aren't the problem, the vegans are... :-)

Got that right.

>>...The wholesale deforestation of the Eastern United States...
>>seems only to have caused the extinction of one species of
>>bird. While in Puerto Rico, the island's loss of 99 percent of its
>>forest cover caused the loss of 7 out of 60 species, but after the
>>deforestation, the number of bird species on the island actually
>>increased to 97. The species-area relationship (plotted as a linear
>>function in 1859) seems to be a poor model on which to base extinction
>>rates.
>>
>>So the model is suspect and the extrapolation invalid. What about the
>>link to global warming? The researchers assume that global warming will
>>reduce habitat. Yet this isn't the case. The earth is not shrinking.
>>The reduction of one area of habitat does not mean that it is replaced
>>by void. Other habitats expand. And so far, all the evidence we have
>>points not to desertification or other changes to less hospitable
>>climates because of global warming. Instead, the increase of carbon
>>dioxide in the atmosphere seems to have led to a 6 percent increase in
>>the amount of vegetation on the earth. The Amazon rain forests
>>accounted for 42 percent of the growth...
>>http://www.cei.org/gencon/019,03797.cfm
>>
>>The link provided by Beachboob states that the Sahara "started drying up
>>6,000 to 8,000 years ago." Rome was founded in 753 BC. That means the
>>Sahara started drying up at least 3000 years before Romulus settled in the
>>Seven Hills, not to mention before man made the transition from
>>hunter-gatherer to local farmer.
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> Yeah, I loved that part. Just think of all those massive cattle ranches in
> Africa 8000 years ago.

If you were to put the ridiculous claims of vegan activists to a math test
(especially issues like water, land, and feed related to livestock production),
you'd find that humans should've become extinct from lack of resources or global
warming sometime in the last millenium (if not sooner!). The information I
provided above debunks these idiots: increased CO2 levels have resulted in an
increase in our planet's vegetation, and much of that is in the Amazon (the very
point which Beachboob raised in his initial post in this thread -- see
http://snipurl.com/b03a)! So much for another false tenet of the vegan religion.