"Gary" > wrote in message ...
> "C. James Strutz" wrote:
>
> > "Richard Periut" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > Marcelino wrote:
> > > > You really need to check this out... Pork eater especially.
> > > >
> > > >
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs....nahan-pig-farm
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > A video which portrays a few sick and frustrated freaks, doesn't stand
> > > as the standard for killing pigs in the pork industry.
> > >
> > > It's just amazing the way these hypocrites try to raise awareness of
> > > animal suffering, without shedding an iota of evidence to human
> > > suffering; the children dying of hunger and *Curable* diseases in
> > > Africa, India, et cetera.
> > >
> > > I'm sure these people, with their cotton candy lives, driving their
> > > BMW's, and drinking California wine, would rather see a whale, a pig,
a
> > > chicken, or a mink saved, before 10 human children can be fed and
healed.
> >
> > Raising livestock as a food source is a huge inefficiency of resources.
The
> > amount of grain used to feed livestock could feed many times the number
of
> > people than the meat could feed. Livestock also consume huge amounts of
> > fresh water which is in short supply in many parts of the world. And the
> > pork industry, in particular, is a major producer of hazerdous waste.
> > Furthermore, many of the hungry people of the world couldn't afford to
buy
> > meat even if you could get it to them easily (it must be refrigerated).
It's
> > the meat eaters of the world who are contributing more to world
hunger...
>
> Most, if not all these problems could be turned against themselves and
turned
> into solutions, if only people would think. For example, pig waste can be
used
> to produce massive amounts of free methane (and is being used to do so in
other
> countries).

I'll give you that methane could be extracted from animal waste (though far
less efficiently than extracting energy directly from grain, biomass, etc.),
but it still doesn't address the concerns of producing and transporting
enough food to feed the world's hungry.

> Simply blaming the fact that man was designed as carnivores as well
> as herbivores (omnivorous), is not a solution, but is part of the problem.

It's arguable that humans were designed as omnivores. Some of the lastest
research indicates that the substance Neu5Gc in meat/dairy products may be
linked to diseases such as heart disease and diabetes. The presence of these
molelules triggers an auto-immune response that causes systemic inflammation
and is thought to contribute to various diseases in the long term.