Message-ID: <32E11A14.57C2@mind.net> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:44:36 +0000 From: "B. Diamond" <mailto:bdiamond@MIND.NET> Subject: Re: What kind of technology / vegetarianism To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Stan Sandler wrote:> Please Joaquim, Brett and others remember that the keeping of cattle is very
> much an integral CULTURAL activity for many people such as the Masai, Boran
> and many many other peoples. And it is both culturally and ecologically
> inappropriate for a hunter culture in the arctic like the Inuit (Eskimo) to
> be vegetarian.
Absolutely correct! (I must have missed the vegetarian thread) However, there are those who look at traditional pastoral practices as being "ineficient" and thus these groups are besieged by those who seek to increase production via the use of hormones and the clear-cutting of forest for pastureland.
> I can certainly see and agree with much of the "vegetarian" viewpoint. We
> cannot feed the planet EQUITABLY with the intensive livestock now kept in
> the north. But I hope that you can also see that there our places in the
> world where livestock are appropriate and useful and culturally necessary
> and not everyone need subscribe to vegetarianism.
This is true, the key word is "equitably."
B. Diamond