[ExI] Paleo diet and sustainability

Max More max at maxmore.com
Tue Apr 12 01:01:40 UTC 2011


Samantha: It doesn't seem like you read any of the relevant references J.
Stanton and I provided on this exact point.

--- Max



On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:

> On 04/11/2011 11:22 AM, J. Stanton wrote:
>
>>
>> Ben Zaiboc said:
>>
>>> And no, this can never be a diet for the majority, it wouldn't be
>>> sustainable.
>>>
>>
>> The same can be said about agriculture, particularly industrial
>> agriculture -- which depends on:
>>
>
> Wait a second.  To raise cattle takes a lot of agriculture to grow enough
> vegetable matter to feed the cattle.  The amount of land needed for that is
> roughly 17 times as large as that needed for just growing human consumable
> vegetable matter on the same land.  You don't get away from agriculture by
> having diets with a lot of meat in them.
>
> - samantha
>
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