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On 12 Jan 2007 00:58:33 -0800, wrote:
(o)(o) o o wrote: On 11 Jan 2007 18:00:47 -0800, wrote: Derek Moody wrote: We've done this one to death many times Pearl (Lotus). Jim even offered you the use of enough of his land to demonstrate your principles and show him, and the rest of the farming community, where they were going wrong. It is kind of silly to present these childish challenges since they are totally meaningless. People concerned for animals often become vegetarians because of cruel conditions of factory farming and to contrast the horrible conditions animals have to suffer because the meat industry tortures these animals from birth to slaughter with the free grazing of animals is absurd. The reality of factory farming is so horrible that one has to wonder how any of these people are able to sleep at night or look their wives and children in the face. How would they like if they and their loved ones had to live under the conditions they force those helpless animals to live under? Has anyone made a study to find out if there is a connection to society becoming insensitive to the horrors of factory farming and the rise of brutal crimes especially against those who are too weak to defend themselves? Child abuse, animal abuse, adult abuse, environment abuse are usually linked. I think it's possibly due to some form of inbreeding. They have shown that most wife and child abusers and serial killers started out torturing animals. To me, factory farming is the worst kind of animal torture and I find it hard to believe that it does not impact those who inflict those horrible things on helpless animals. If they are prepared to carry out that kind of task, they obviously don't care about themselves, and if they don't care about themselves, they care nothing for anything else. |
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![]() wrote in message oups.com... They have shown that most wife and child abusers and serial killers started out torturing animals. yep, and PETA has got teams that go round murdering peoples pets, so that puts them in their place Don't worry If you are really lucky then the major food producing countries out there will sell you enough to eat. But they will make you pay for it because as they get richer, they might want to eat more meat themselves (and they don't believe the propaganda put out by a lot of activists with a vested interest) or they might need the fuel. But if you are really lucky, they might sell you some Jim Webster |
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"Jim Webster" wrote in message ...
"pearl" wrote in message ... "Jim Webster" wrote in message ... "pearl" wrote in message ... except that they are still eating more and more meat Some are. Others, many millions, are starving because land that had supported them sustainably for generations was expropriated by and for a meat-eating 'wealthy elite'. You ignore it, because -you- 'profit'. sure, and explain how I profit out of meat production in china? I didn't say that you profited from meat production in China. and now explain why more chinese eating meat, many getting a decent diet for the first time makes them a wealthy elite ".. diseases of affluence are found in the more densely populated rural areas nearer the seacoast where industrial activity and literacy rates are higher ..." 'In many developing nations there has been a rapid increase in the incidence of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, lung cancer and a host of other health disorders concomitant with a rise in economic affluence (Pellett, 1989). In contrast with the communicable and infectious diseases affecting the rural poor, the more economically privileged urban sectors in these countries suffer from a rising prevalence of chronic degenerative diseases appropriately referred to as 'diseases of misdevelopment' by Dumont (1989). Not only do these chronic diseases have a debilitating effect on a productive segment of the active elite but also the costs of treating these diseases tend to absorb a disproportionate share of the public health resources in favor of an already privileged social group. It is therefore of utmost importance to developing nations to avoid creating a new and costly pathology soon after emerging from the scourge of infectious and nutritional deficiency diseases (Pellett, 1989). ... China has developed a unique system of decentralized planning which has recently incorporated private initiative in agriculture, industry, and trade. From the early 1950s to the mid-1970s the Chinese government had strict control over agricultural production and trade. It gave priority to staple foods over preferred foods (legumes, meats, fruits) in order to ensure an adequate supply of essential grain for all provinces. Until recently government policy favored direct consumption of grain over consumption of animal products requiring feedgrains (Jamison and Piazza, 1987). However, policy has changed markedly in the last few years. With the consolidation of the new 'production responsibility system' the government expects a rapid growth in the livestock sector (World Bank, 1985). Cattle production will be limited by the carrying capacity of China's grasslands, which are already overgrazed. Poultry and pig production are more dependent on the availability of feed concentrates. Such production has been increasing for the last ten years, and there is now a concern that it might be necessary to monitor the consumption of high-animal-fat food to prevent deleterious effects both economic and nutritional. ....' http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/rep...ll_china2.html '.. two-thirds of all soybeans and meal imported into the UK came from Brazil, the primary source of non GM soy in the world. .. http://www.pgeconomics.co.uk/pdf/PGE...ments.01.p df 'In Central and South America, ever-increasing amounts of land are being used to grow soya beans and grain for export - to be used as animal feed. exactly, because these people are determined to eat more meat. We're talking about -your- profits here, jimmy. Obviously it will mean they have less to export to those whinging in Europe who cannot be bothered to grow their own food, but don't moan to me, go on line to the Latin American groups and moan at them You buy their produce. Sadly for you, the meat-eating 'wealthy elite' now includes the massive majority of the people in these countries, and they are going to have their meat and you are the one who is going to have to pay more for your food. They now have three choices They can eat meat They can convert grain to fuel they can sell it to you at an increasingly expensive price "While soybean exports boomed in Brazil to feed Japanese and European livestock - hunger spread from one-third to two-thirds of the population"...."Where the majority of people have been made too poor to buy the food grown on their own country's soil, those who control productive resources will, not surprisingly, orient their production to more lucrative markets abroad." Pro-trade policies like that of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) promotes export crop production and suppresses basic food production. Foreign aid from industrialised countries has supported such free trade and free market policies. ... ' http://www.psrast.org/nowohu.htm |
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![]() "pearl" wrote in message ... "Jim Webster" wrote in message ... "pearl" wrote in message ... "Jim Webster" wrote in message ... "pearl" wrote in message ... except that they are still eating more and more meat Some are. Others, many millions, are starving because land that had supported them sustainably for generations was expropriated by and for a meat-eating 'wealthy elite'. You ignore it, because -you- 'profit'. sure, and explain how I profit out of meat production in china? I didn't say that you profited from meat production in China. and now explain why more chinese eating meat, many getting a decent diet for the first time makes them a wealthy elite ".. diseases of affluence are found in the more densely populated rural areas nearer the seacoast where industrial activity and literacy rates are higher ..." don't tell me, tell the Chinese, they have tried the diseases of poverty and weren't happy with them, so they have obviously decided to give the others a go 'In Central and South America, ever-increasing amounts of land are being used to grow soya beans and grain for export - to be used as animal feed. exactly, because these people are determined to eat more meat. We're talking about -your- profits here, jimmy. exactly All those biofuel plants will produce all sorts of byproducts that make excellent animal food. I suppose we could turn maize gluten into kibble for vegetarians, but cattle love it. Obviously it will mean they have less to export to those whinging in Europe who cannot be bothered to grow their own food, but don't moan to me, go on line to the Latin American groups and moan at them You buy their produce. No, actually no, not in the last twelve months. Sadly for you, the meat-eating 'wealthy elite' now includes the massive majority of the people in these countries, and they are going to have their meat and you are the one who is going to have to pay more for your food. They now have three choices They can eat meat They can convert grain to fuel they can sell it to you at an increasingly expensive price "While soybean exports boomed in Brazil to feed Japanese and European livestock - hunger spread from one-third to two-thirds of the population"...."Where the majority of people have been made too poor to buy the food grown on their own country's soil, those who control productive resources will, not surprisingly, orient their production to more lucrative markets abroad." boy you are out of touch work it out on your fingers The Argentinians stopped exporting beef in 2006 to allow the price at home to fall to ensure Argentinians had plenty of beef As for Brazilians, their growth forecasts are that as their country develops the amount of meat eaten by the local population will increase as they get wealthier They will get wealthier because Brazil is self sufficient in food and converting a lot of it into energy to reduce its dependence on imported oil They also are developing a pretty good manufacturing industry. So their population is pretty well guaranteed enough to eat and enough fuel to shift the food. On the other hand, you have to explain exactly what you have to offer that means the Brazilians will sell food to you. What can you give them in return? After all we have seen the Argentinians stop exports because they didn't have enough for home consumption, perhaps the Brazilians will decide next year to export no soya because they need it to feed their people and their livestock Perhqaps they will decide to cut their soya acreage to what will supply themselves and instead grow sugar for ethanol. After all 50% of their sugar already goes in that direction Why should they worry about you and your need for soya? Not only that but according to a strategic review of Europe's energy situation published by the Commission, EU member states will have to meet a 10% target for the amount of transport fuel coming from biofuels by 2020. This will be part of a legally binding target of 20% of European energy coming from renewable sources. This in itself produces interesting knock on effects. The UK uses about 37.5 million tons a year. If we were to replace ten percent of this with bio diesel produced from Oil Seed Rape, one hectare would produce 1.45 tonnes fuel. Therefore to meet the 10% target will take 2.5 million hectares, which is just less than half the 5.7 million hectares of arable land we have. As an aside at this point, all the biofuel currently being produced has the margarine manufacturers in a spin because their raw material has shot up in price. Soon it may be cheaper to use butter than marge.Indeed margarine production may stop altogether because we haven't enough cheap vegetable oil Now obviously all that OSR leaves behind alot of excellent rape meal, a fine feed for livestock, or again I suppose we could blend it with kibble for vegetarians. Now we could perhaps increase our arable area but there are problems here. Much has been lost under urban sprawl, and even more has been damaged by being used as flood overspill because of urban building on the flood plain. So much of it is only fit for grazing because they daren't plough it. Also in many areas they physically cannot plough the land because the soil isn't suitable or there would be a danger of erosian because of the slopes. So with limited arable area, increasing demand for biofuel, there is also the fact that importing food is going to become more expensive. A Green MEP Caroline Lucas produced a report for the European parliament which looked at the effects of high oil prices and biofuel on food prices. If you want to fetch half a kilo (basically a lb for the politically unreconstructed) of baby carrots in from South Africa, at the lowest aviation fuel price for the last couple of years, the fuel cost on those carrots was 9.1pence. At the peak cost fuel hit a couple of months ago the fuel cost on the same carrots was 22.5p per pound. If Aviation fuel doubles in price, then it is going to cost 38.2p per pound to fly the carrots into this country. All these interesting imported protein sources beloved of many vegetarians are going to become awfully expensive So it is about time people woke up to the changing world and decided what they are going to do about it. The Brazilians are under no obligation to reduce their standard of living for the privilege of selling us food. What have you got to sell them in exchange? Jim Webster |
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Hey pearl
now you can help subsidise all these nice South Americans you were so worried about Now you can revel in the fact that Argentinian soya has gone up and this money will go to help the poor. Isn't it nice to know you have such moral suppliers, so reliable and so keen to serve your interests Jim Webster http://www.abcmoney.co.uk/news/1120074898.htm BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AFX) - Argentina's government unveiled a plan Thursday to fight inflation on basic consumer foods, saying it would subsidize some supermarket goods with money raised by a higher export tax on soybeans. The move, in a South American farm country that is the world's top soy meal exporter, triggered protests by farmers and grain exporters. It was the latest step in inflation-fighting efforts by the government of President Nestor Kirchner. Inflation for all 2006 neared 10 percent and Kirchner, a left-leaning member of the ruling Peronist party now facing an election year, has vowed to keep prices in check for consumers still recovering from a deep 2001-2002 economic crisis. Economy Minister Felisa Miceli said the government would raise the tax on soybeans and soybean products from an existing 24 percent to 27.5 percent. The added revenue, she said, would go toward subsidies for producers of key basic foodstuffs. She said the measure would raise an additional $100 million in the coming year for the subsidy program for products ranging from wheat flour to dairy, pork and poultry. Argentines for 11 years until December 2001 had their peso currency pegged by law at 1-to-1 with the dollar, but the crisis that year prompted a more than 70 percent devaluation of the local money and many wages remain badly eroded. Copyright 2006 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. |
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![]() "Derek Moody" wrote in message ... In article , pearl wrote: "Jim Webster" wrote in message news:50m60pF1fu3 ... One instance. Your sort of business has put millions in an early grave. Jim's sort of business has fed millions of people in cities who would otherwise have gone hungry - or worse. A colossal part of the Earth's land surface has been devoted to pasture, Because a colossal part of the Earth's land surface will not grow any crop suitable for human consumption. Sheep, for example, can roam many acres of upland grass and convert a very thin supply of nutrient into a form that humans can eat. We've done this one to death many times Pearl (Lotus). Jim even offered you the use of enough of his land to demonstrate your principles and show him, and the rest of the farming community, where they were going wrong. You declined then when you realised the impossibility of the task you had set yourself and so Jim has continued to graze that same land extensively (look it up - Lotus, don't guess) and to convert its product into food. Consult google or one of the other usenet archives if your memory is faulty. Cheerio, -- http://www.farm-direct.co.uk/ Why do you morons keep crossposting this rubbish? |
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![]() "pearl" wrote in message ... "Jim Webster" wrote in message ... "pearl" wrote in message ... except that they are still eating more and more meat Some are. Others, many millions, are starving because land that had supported them sustainably for generations was expropriated by and for a meat-eating 'wealthy elite'. You ignore it, because -you- 'profit'. sure, and explain how I profit out of meat production in china? I didn't say that you profited from meat production in China. '.. two-thirds of all soybeans and meal imported into the UK came from Brazil, the primary source of non GM soy in the world. .. http://www.pgeconomics.co.uk/pdf/PGE...ments.01.p df 'In Central and South America, ever-increasing amounts of land are being used to grow soya beans and grain for export - to be used as animal feed. In Brazil, 23 per cent of the cultivated land is currently being used to produced soya beans, of which nearly half are for export (13). The Oxfam Poverty Report explains that the subsidised expansion of the EU's dairy and livestock industry has created a huge demand for high protein animal feedstuffs and that the demand has in part been met through the expansion of large-scale, mechanised soya production in Brazil. Smallholder producers of beans and staple foods in the southern part of the country have been displaced to make way for giant soya estates. Soya has now become the country's major agricultural export, "however, it is a trading arrangement which had proved considerably more efficient at feeding European cattle than with maintaining the livelihoods of poor Brazilians." (16) ..' http://www.viva.org.uk/guides/feedtheworld.htm And I hardly think the Chinese shopper who buys a live chicken and takes it home and wrings the neck of the animal themselves is going to worry about whether it was killed in a heartless and industrialised fashion These people are eating more meat, Chinese government planners are ensuring that they have the output to supply people what they want Chinese planners are worried. You posted the following on 09 January, (it's from: http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=35910 ). exactly, and they are worried that they will not be able to provide them with enough meat, so are making sure they can By abandoning an alternative fuel, and increasing imports of grain? Grain from where? See what you snipped. What you've ignored. they aren't worried about a long of whinging westerners, if they want a bizarre ideology they already have one, they don't need yours What "bizarre ideology" do I have? A healthy diet? Food for all? Recovering and thriving wildlife and ecosystems? Oh, excuse me! Why do you morons keep crossposting this rubbish? |
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![]() "pearl" wrote in message ... "Jim Webster" wrote in message ... "pearl" wrote in message ... "Jim Webster" wrote in message ... "pearl" wrote in message ... except that they are still eating more and more meat Some are. Others, many millions, are starving because land that had supported them sustainably for generations was expropriated by and for a meat-eating 'wealthy elite'. You ignore it, because -you- 'profit'. sure, and explain how I profit out of meat production in china? I didn't say that you profited from meat production in China. and now explain why more chinese eating meat, many getting a decent diet for the first time makes them a wealthy elite ".. diseases of affluence are found in the more densely populated rural areas nearer the seacoast where industrial activity and literacy rates are higher ..." 'In many developing nations there has been a rapid increase in the incidence of cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, lung cancer and a host of other health disorders concomitant with a rise in economic affluence (Pellett, 1989). In contrast with the communicable and infectious diseases affecting the rural poor, the more economically privileged urban sectors in these countries suffer from a rising prevalence of chronic degenerative diseases appropriately referred to as 'diseases of misdevelopment' by Dumont (1989). Not only do these chronic diseases have a debilitating effect on a productive segment of the active elite but also the costs of treating these diseases tend to absorb a disproportionate share of the public health resources in favor of an already privileged social group. It is therefore of utmost importance to developing nations to avoid creating a new and costly pathology soon after emerging from the scourge of infectious and nutritional deficiency diseases (Pellett, 1989). .. China has developed a unique system of decentralized planning which has recently incorporated private initiative in agriculture, industry, and trade. From the early 1950s to the mid-1970s the Chinese government had strict control over agricultural production and trade. It gave priority to staple foods over preferred foods (legumes, meats, fruits) in order to ensure an adequate supply of essential grain for all provinces. Until recently government policy favored direct consumption of grain over consumption of animal products requiring feedgrains (Jamison and Piazza, 1987). However, policy has changed markedly in the last few years. With the consolidation of the new 'production responsibility system' the government expects a rapid growth in the livestock sector (World Bank, 1985). Cattle production will be limited by the carrying capacity of China's grasslands, which are already overgrazed. Poultry and pig production are more dependent on the availability of feed concentrates. Such production has been increasing for the last ten years, and there is now a concern that it might be necessary to monitor the consumption of high-animal-fat food to prevent deleterious effects both economic and nutritional. ...' http://www.mcspotlight.org/media/rep...ll_china2.html '.. two-thirds of all soybeans and meal imported into the UK came from Brazil, the primary source of non GM soy in the world. .. http://www.pgeconomics.co.uk/pdf/PGE...ments.01.p df 'In Central and South America, ever-increasing amounts of land are being used to grow soya beans and grain for export - to be used as animal feed. exactly, because these people are determined to eat more meat. We're talking about -your- profits here, jimmy. Obviously it will mean they have less to export to those whinging in Europe who cannot be bothered to grow their own food, but don't moan to me, go on line to the Latin American groups and moan at them You buy their produce. Sadly for you, the meat-eating 'wealthy elite' now includes the massive majority of the people in these countries, and they are going to have their meat and you are the one who is going to have to pay more for your food. They now have three choices They can eat meat They can convert grain to fuel they can sell it to you at an increasingly expensive price "While soybean exports boomed in Brazil to feed Japanese and European livestock - hunger spread from one-third to two-thirds of the population"...."Where the majority of people have been made too poor to buy the food grown on their own country's soil, those who control productive resources will, not surprisingly, orient their production to more lucrative markets abroad." Pro-trade policies like that of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) promotes export crop production and suppresses basic food production. Foreign aid from industrialised countries has supported such free trade and free market policies. .. ' http://www.psrast.org/nowohu.htm Why do you morons keep crossposting this rubbish? |
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