I used to talk about land use when asked about being a vegetarian(x acres of land can feed y times as many people as cows etc). However, I recently heard a radio program(I think it was on a "Forum with Michael Krasny" http://www.kqed.org/programs/program-landing.jsp?p rogID=RD19) where they were discussing "factory farms". One of the guests who was somehow involved in the raising of cattle remarked that the raising of cattle was a far more efficient use of land for food production than growing crops, because they feed cows not with grain etc, but with OTHER COWS! It's the kind of "creative problem-solving" I would expect from Mr. Burns. I also seem to recall hearing that cow canibalism is what's causing "Mad Cow" disease.
Maybe the same "geniuses" will figure out how to increase the fat/oil content of cows(or some other animal) and use that to reduce our dependance on foreign oil. Better living through canibalism!
(curls up into a fetal ball screaming "Futuuurrre!!!...Futuuurrre!!!...Futuurrre!!!...")
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I used to talk about land use when asked about being a vegetarian(x acres of land can feed y times as many people as cows etc). However, I recently heard a radio program(I think it was on a "Forum with Michael Krasny"p rogID=RD19) where they were discussing "factory farms". One of the guests who was somehow involved in the raising of cattle remarked that the raising of cattle was a far more efficient use of land for food production than growing crops, because they feed cows not with grain etc, but with OTHER COWS!
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http://www.kqed.org/programs/program-landing.jsp?
It's the kind of "creative problem-solving" I would expect from Mr. Burns.
I also seem to recall hearing that cow canibalism is what's causing "Mad Cow" disease.
Maybe the same "geniuses" will figure out how to increase the fat/oil content of cows(or some other animal)
and use that to reduce our dependance on foreign oil. Better living through canibalism!
(curls up into a fetal ball screaming "Futuuurrre!!!...Futuuurrre!!!...Futuurrre!!!..."