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From: robison@eosp1.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RE: starving children
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Date: Wed, 19-Oct-83 11:31:39 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 19 11:31:39 1983
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It is probably inaccurate to claim that people can get more food by
eating cows raised on grain, than by eating the grain itself.
Traditionally, it is a very good deal to eat meat from animals that
eat GRASS and various kinds of weed plants that grow in soil which
cannot be tilled.  Where the land is good, agricultural prodction
of grains for direct consumption is most productive.

Our view of this problem is obscenely skewed in the USA, where we
feed corn and grains to cows and pigs to produce better tasting meat,
not less expensive food, and not larger quantities of food.

In India, sacred cows certainly destroy part of the grain crop.
If this amount is signifigant (anyone have figures?) it will be
desireable (and not easy) to control the number of cows, but eating
them will only provide a brief one-shot increase in available food.