[ExI] Paleo diet and sustainability

[Samantha Atkins]

On Apr 12, 2011, at 5:44 AM, Dave Sill wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Samantha Atkins <sjatkins at mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Wait a second.  To raise cattle takes a lot of agriculture to grow enough
>> vegetable matter to feed the cattle.
> 
> Not true. Cattle and other ruminants require no agriculture, just wild
> forage.

That is grossly inefficient for the size of the modern appetite for meat.

> The vast herds of buffalo that used to live in North America,
> for example, weren't supported by agriculture. I can raise half a
> dozen cattle on my 10 acres of pasture with no agriculture whatsoever.

Sure.  Now try to scale it up..

> 
>>  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.
> 
> Citation required.
> 

No, I have better things to do.

-s