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con_carne I think you'd be pretty surprised at the environmental "impact" growing fruits and veggies has.

Posted by TWuG Aug 17 '09, 12:54

Lots and lots of water. Fertilizer (organic or otherwise, not all of it stays where it's put). The large tracts of land required. Shipping costs. Storage costs.

I see lots of Veg people say "I grow my own or buy locally grown!" And that's great. But there's no way that would work for a city the size of New York.

On the meat-eater side, Ted Nuggent is all about hunting a living of what he catches and thinks others should live that way, too. But there's no way a city the size of NY would ever even exist if people lived that way.

It's all eminently practical on the small scale and completely impractical on the large scale.

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I don't think I would be. Since animals have to *eat* in order to be raised, they take the environmental impact of these raised crops - con_carne Aug 17, 13:03 2
- Yes, they do. But if people stopped eating meat, they'd require a LOT more veggies and grains. Maybe not as much as - TWuG Aug 17, 13:12 1
  - we could exist with out cow milk -- nm - Guy Aug 17, 13:15
farming has a fraction of the impact of ranching. there's not really any getting around that. -- nm - mafic Aug 17, 12:57 4
- exactly. You're feeding something to something to make food, instead of eating that first something directly. - Reagen Aug 17, 13:09
- It would be interesting if NASA or someone did a study to see how effectively food could be grown for large populations in dense regions - Beryllium Aug 17, 13:01 2
  - look up "vertical farming" -- nm - znufrii Aug 17, 13:04 1
    - *looks up* it's so taaaaalll. It hurts my neck! -- nm - Beryllium Aug 17, 13:05

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con_carne I think you'd be pretty surprised at the environmental "impact" growing fruits and veggies has.

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