blog.wired.com — Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called corn and turkey, but the actual organisms they consumed didn't look or taste much at all like our modern variants do.
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owls27Nov 28, 2008
I only really eat turkey once a year. Not counting the occasional cold cut.
bieberNov 28, 2008
Give me a break. If we truly cared about farming efficiency, we wouldn't be farming animals. Livestock in America eat, IIRC, about 90% of our soy, 80% of our corn, and 70% of our wheat, or somewhere thereabouts. It takes about ten times as much land to feed a population meat as it does to feed them a plant-based diet. So yes, we should just all grow organic, and then eat the food that we grow, instead of feeding it by the truckload to animals that spend years maturing, consuming food and water that we could be using, and creating waste that we have to deal with (oh, yeah, animal agriculture is also one of the top causes of greenhouse gas emissions).If you're looking for efficiency, there are much better ways to accomplish it than breeding billions of birds to spend their entire lives suffering from freakishly oversized bodies for our own fatass greed. That's like tweaking your Hummer to get the best gas mileage out of it you can: even at peak efficiency, its efficiency is still s**t :/
Closed AccountNov 28, 2008
with bacon
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