

He wants to use plant-based agriculture









Source: The Washington Post

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RE: Sounds great to me
By FITCamaro on 8/7/2013 12:59:48 PM , Rating: 3
The only thing raising the price of beef right now is ethanol and ridiculous "emissions" regulations (because even crap needs to be regulated now).

On what basis is beef farming not sustainable? The land use? America has a crap ton of unused land. Try looking at a damn population map. Less than 10% of land in the US is being used by the population. We have plenty of room to let cows roam.

Food costs? You don't have to feed cows anything other than grass. They do to fatten them up quicker. And again because of ethanol, they are resorting to things like candy to feed them because actual feed is getting so expensive. More cows in the US would lessen the need for fattening them up faster than grass allows.

We produce plenty of food to feed the world. Even with liberals ending farming in places like California to save a non-indigenous fish. All we need to do is lower the price of fresh water using nuclear power and desalinization plants. Know what that means? Jobs. But those are evil unless its a government job to this administration.

RE: Sounds great to me
By Reclaimer77 on 8/7/2013 2:21:19 PM , Rating: 3
Fun fact: America (and other developed nations) throw away annually about half (50%) of all meat sold/delivered.

Half! Let that sink in for a minute in regards to the discussion.

Humans only occupy about 1% of the land mass on Earth. The amount of land required to keep us fed is infinitesimally small. Population growth rate? Just 1.1%!

Yet here we have Liberals rehashing the same failed ideological assaults dating back to the 1950's about population growth, humans running out of land, and the inability to feed our numbers. ALL of these have been proven wrong and wrong again. Anyone using these talking points is a certifiable moron and should be ignored.

If you want to eat artificial meat, fine, just do it and shut up. But don't sit here and make a political statement about it. And don't use outright lies and fabrications to back them up.

RE: Sounds great to me
By cfaalm on 8/7/2013 6:04:59 PM , Rating: 3

It has even been stated in a documentary (The Taste Of Waste) that the waste of food in developed countries (USA and Europe mainly), if well distributed, could more than feed the ones in hunger now. So right now there isn't a shortage problem as well as a distribution problem. Now before we go on producing more food, we'd better find a way to get it to the right place.

This will put away with the discussion on lab meat vs real cattle for now. Later on we will eventually face the question if we need such technology, if it is world population or living on Mars. Plant based protein or lab meat vs real cattle. If the new technology becomes economically feasible both will exist for some time to come.

RE: Sounds great to me
By w8gaming on 8/7/2013 10:35:21 PM , Rating: 2
Well, if you expand the hunger issue to the whole world then it is not as simple as it is. Can United States make enough food to feed the whole world? The hunger issue really is a world problem, not just limited to a single country. You are correct to think that we are not running out of space for food that soon. Other problem will hit us sooner, and the most obvious problem is oil and energy. There is also issue such as drinkable water, raw materials etc. Food is merely one aspect of the population issue. A lot of lands are being converted to energy and biofuel purpose now which effectively reduce the amount of farmable lands available.


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