Real Environmentalism

[Guest guest]

Serious business sense requires numbers: margin, bottom line, break

even, projected costs, etc. Charts are a great tools for assessing

where a business is and where it is going. Lay it all out. Real

environmentalism should do the same. Let me see the numbers.

I was just curious as to how much actual produce comes from an acre of

vegetables vs. an acre of well managed pasture. But how do you

compare milk to potatoes? Try calories. If I am off, someone let me

know.

30,000 pounds potatoes per acre

at 21.8 calories per oz of potato

that is 348.8 calories per pound

or 320,000 calories per acre for potatoes

If our cow gave 5 gallons per day

on one acre of well managed pasture,

at 146 calories per cup milk at 3.5% butterfat

that is 2,336 calories per gallon

or 11,680 calories per day.

At a 340 day lactation,

that is 3,971,200 calories per year per acre.

Therefore, if these figures hold out, a cow, one year on one acre well

managed pasture outperforms a harvest of an acre of potatoes by ten

times, calorie per calorie.

This sounds like the answer to world hunger, not vegan

environmentalism. It would seem that pastoralism controlled by

families and individuals could be the great boom for self reliance.

But perhaps wealthy industrialists have known this all along and have

been riding us for their profit. Traditional, well managed, pastured

farming may be the last tree that stands against the storm of total

tyranny. It produces so much more per area of well managed land, that

they must extinguish the personal power it creates and suppress any

advantage it gives to the individual. They make up stories about the

evils of animal fats and cholesterol. They artificially keep animal

fat prices low, hoping that we will not discover its true value for

energy and health. Ruminant protozoa are great powerhouses of

production. They seek every opportunity to make us dependent on

crude oil and won't even let us pump it out of the ground in our own

country so that the money funnels to their multinational industries.

No wonder they are trying to scare us with animals disease paranoia

and get our animals radio tagged. Not only do they want a monopoly on

black gold crude oil, they want a monopoly on yellow gold--butter fat.

I think that we might also find that saturated fat is a far superior

form for energy for the human body. If only we knew. But we listen to

industrial propaganda to our own peril.

Produce yellow gold; reduce black gold.

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