Message-ID: <32DE86E1.1B5B@mind.net> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 1997 19:52:01 +0000 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@MIND.NET> Subject: Re: Vegetarianism and development models To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Joaquim Moura wrote:>By the way, if every human being is
> supposed to live eating meat as American do, besides the same health
> problems Americans have, the planet would have to be completely deforested,
> and covered by grass... To feed cattle with wheat, corn, soybean and oat, to
> then sell expensive meat to the rich people, who can pay for it, will
> condemn multitudes to increasing suffering from hunger and death.
The book "Diet for a New America" points out that the average american house cat consumes more meat per year than the average third world citizen.
B. Diamond