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From: z@cca.UUCP (Steve Zimmerman)
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Subject: Re: RE: starving children
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Date: Thu, 20-Oct-83 08:39:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 20 08:39:21 1983
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Now wait a minute.  Cows aren't held in higher esteem than people in
India, nor are large areas of grain set aside for them.  If you'd ever
been to India, you'd have seen that Indian cows have it a lot worse off
than Indian people.  They don't kill cows in India, but they sure don't
feed them like kings, either.  Most Indian cows I saw appeared to be on
the verge of starvation, at least compared to what I was used to in
America.  Females are used for dairy products, and males for manual
labor, such as farming, which ends up producing more food.  Using these
animals for a lifetime of food production this way makes a lot more
sense than killing them off for a few pounds of meat.  India's problem
is simply that there are more people than its land can support, and that
farming technology remains almost nonexistent throughout most of the
country due to lack of money.

	Steve Zimmerman