SC -veal longings

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

here cattle are raised for meat in feedlots (ie fed expensive grain),
unless you want to pay premium for "free range", in which case they run in
real grass (and still get huge suppliments of grain---the scrub in eastern
washington doesnt really provide enough)

the arguement may indeed be specious...but its what my bleedin' heart
liberal mom told me :)....

- --AM< who still doesnt like beef, finding it tough and chewy and tasting
like the ironfilled water of her youth....:)

I think much depends on At 09:27 AM 2/7/01 -0600, you wrote:
>How about buffalo?  Eat more buffalo, help restore the tallgrass prairie by
>making buffalo raising economically viable.
>
>I know the argument about resource waste, but I keep wondering how the
>conclusion was reached.  Here in Oklahoma, livestock is normally run on land
>that is marginal for crops with the cropland sometimes serving as winter
>pasturage.  Factoring in the salination and aquifer depletion that would
>occur trying to grow grain on these lands makes me think the general
>argument is specious.
>
>Bear
>
>> actually, the waste of resources is the best reason I've heard for not
>> eating them. I was a vegetarian for many years for just that 
>> reason (ie the
>> amount of land it takes to make a pound of beef vs the amount 
>> of land for a
>> pound of grain). Still dont care for beef much :P
>> 
>> --AM
>
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