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Posted on 02-22-11 09:51:46 PM (last edited by Gabu at 02-22-11 06:52 PM) Link | Quote
This makes me seriously consider going vegetarian. But hands off the eggs and cheese.

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Posted on 02-22-11 10:24:15 PM Link | Quote


Plant?

Either way, it dosen't matter what the scientists think, the world will be completely renewed in 2012.

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Posted on 02-22-11 10:27:30 PM (last edited by Waffle Ryebread at 02-22-11 07:28 PM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by CB
Either way, it dosen't matter what the scientists think, the world will be completely renewed in 2012.
Sure thing, boss!



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Posted on 02-22-11 10:29:13 PM Link | Quote
Hm- isn't this Malthus' argument all over again?

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Posted on 02-22-11 10:31:20 PM Link | Quote
So on the one hand they want people here to get children because of the strong population decline, on the other hand we already have too much of them. They really can't decide.

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Posted on 02-22-11 10:38:05 PM Link | Quote
Originally posted by Prince Kassad
So on the one hand they want people here to get children because of the strong population decline, on the other hand we already have too much of them. They really can't decide.


Dem darn blackies are takin' over our world, dagnabbit. :U

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Posted on 02-23-11 12:14:46 AM Link | Quote
I wouldn't really struggle going vegetarian, actually. Well, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, that is. I rarely eat meat, anyway. My favorite dishes are white rice with beans, white rice with eggs, fried rice with scrambled eggs, among others.

Now, if someone takes away my rice, there will be war!
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Posted on 02-23-11 02:51:34 AM Link | Quote
Rice is I believe a grain, and grain is the most basic foodstuff for human life.

So rice would likely be very safe.

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Posted on 02-24-11 01:07:29 PM (last edited by misterj at 02-24-11 10:07 AM) Link | Quote
The United Nations has predicted the global population will reach seven billion this year, and climb to nine billion by 2050, [...] To feed all those mouths, "we will need to produce as much food in the next 40 years as we have in the last 8,000,"

You mean we already feed the ~6 billion mouths today? I don't think so.

This seems like such a silly prediction to make. The planet will be unrecognizable 40 years from now. How bold! Still, in the past 25 years we've made more technological progress as a species than we've ever had. I'm optimistic! I want to be, after all; I want to have a well off family.

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Posted on 02-24-11 01:32:01 PM Link | Quote
That is kinda true, but I think they're estimating that Africa and South Asia is going to use western technologies to create farming systems much like in the Great Plains. Though it seems that the agreed upper limit of supporting human eating habits is at about 9 billion.

But still, it does kinda make sense for more food needed to be produced in order to make meat, and considering since there's only going to be more people running around in the future to lighten the load by a ridiculously small amount by going vegetarian by myself. However, if 300 million people did that, there'd be a massive impact.

Too bad like 95% of America would rather have their meat. And in all honesty, so do I, but I kinda have this ironic-nonironic fear of death through such an extended suffering. It is something to seriously think about in terms of posterity (and perhaps even animal rights, despite a certain degree of hatred about saying that), anyways.

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Posted on 02-24-11 01:47:22 PM (last edited by misterj at 02-24-11 10:49 AM) Link | Quote
Originally posted by Gabu
That is kinda true, but I think they're estimating that Africa and South Asia is going to use western technologies to create farming systems much like in the Great Plains. Though it seems that the agreed upper limit of supporting human eating habits is at about 9 billion.

I'm not an expert in anything agrarian at all, but I don't think that most of Africa and South Asia is cut out for the things that are done in the Great Plains. I base this on very limited knowledge of the area and only knowing of a heap of pastoral tribal peoples in the area. We'd also have to get over the constant resource wars that our government funds African dictators with guns with...


Originally posted by Gabu
Too bad like 95% of America would rather have their meat. And in all honesty, so do I, but I kinda have this ironic-nonironic fear of death through such an extended suffering. It is something to seriously think about in terms of posterity (and perhaps even animal rights, despite a certain degree of hatred about saying that), anyways.

It'd definitely be worth it to feed more people, but I don't see how that'd happen. If any species could escape the need to destroy other organisms with CNSes and live healthily, it'd be us. But I don't see it either. People get raised on meat and want to stick to it. It's part of nearly every culture in the world.

Oh, and I'm SO not going to eat insects. Fuck.

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Posted on 03-28-11 08:26:24 PM Link | Quote
I actually found a two-sided poster in this sweet catch I got at the library today (Ironically, both covers of the two issues of National Geographic I nabbed for a dime contain water and are 42 years apart exactly). This one side in particular more or less showed how many gallons of water that is used to produce something (usually a pound)

tl;dr, eat chicken, yogurt, strawberries, eggplants, and drink tea/water itself. Though I guess I can see some overlap between having one pound of chicken and a pound of eggs.

Also wash your jeans and shirts as little as possible to keep them from falling apart. Apparently it takes 2900 gallons of water to make one pair of jeans, and 770 for a shirt. D:

And by make, it's basically how many gallons it takes to grow the cotton for the clothing, and then the additional water needed to produce the clothing.

So yeah the more we know. --*

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