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Food Shortages Will Force the World to Embrace Grass Finished Beef

by Timbre Wolf - Open-Publishing - Tuesday 28 August 2012
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Due to serious water shortages over the next 40 years the world’s population will have to switch to a whole protein, grass fed, animal-based diet in order to avoid utter disaster.

According to a recent report: “Dire warnings of water scarcity limiting food production come as Oxfam and the UN prepare for a possible second global food crisis in five years. Prices for staples such as corn and wheat have risen nearly 50% on international markets since June, triggered by severe droughts in the US and Russia, and weak monsoon rains in Asia. More than 18 million people are already facing serious food shortages across the Sahel.”

A paper being given in Sweden will make the claim that a vegetarian diet will be the only solution but the corn and wheat, referred to as “staples” in the above quote, are unnatural components of the diet of mankind. Human beings have only been eating these “foods” for 5% or their time in history – that is to say only in the last 11,000 years. Gluten intolerance, coupled with the fact that cultures that consume no corn have no arthritis, are blatant “in your face” reminders that corn and wheat do not belong in the human diet at all.

It is necessary for our survival to pull human beings off of this environmentally devastating “vegan-is-more-sustainable” ideology. It is not. And there is the further complication that land without animals is not getting fertilized, there are no pug marks to collect scant rains, and the land that is required for fossil fuel-sustained GMO corn or drought prone wheat is being grotesquely abused.

“According to the USDA, NASS (National Ag Statistics Services) there were 30,086,000 beef cows and 9,085,000 dairy cows in the United States on Jan 1, 2011.”

It is estimated that the number of buffalo, resident in the US before Europeans nearly wiped out both the buffalo and the indigenous people’s of the plains, was twice that. Only a fool would think that the Great Plains are better off today than they were then.

Now add that the “EPA estimates water use for fracking nationwide was 70 billion to 140 billion gallons in 2010.”

So . . . do we really need to go vegan to stem the water shortage? Or will going “hog wild,” and putting a stop to fracking, alleviate “the water shortage”???

Forum posts

  • It’s interesting that cows appear to put about half of the water that they drink back into the fields as : Water - 95% : Urea - 2.5% : Minerals, Hormones, Salts & Enzymes - 2.5%. This is a perfect organic fertilizer. The rest of the water goes into body weight and, presumeably, perspiration. Of course much of this is reclaimed by humans. It’s a perfect system - even vegie advocate Francis Moore Lappe suggested as much when he called cattle "perfect protien factories." The problem comes when you try to give these grass feeders grains. Even E. Coli can be traced to giving ruminents grains. Then the birds pick it up. And thereby a perfect system is debased for "quick" profits.

  • FANTASTIC! BRING ON THE BEEF! I, myself, would make a terrible farmer because I would turn all of my animals into pets. However that doesn’t mean that I don’t know, having been raised on a farm, that raising cattle, pigs, sheep, and others isn’t really the way that we are supposed to go. But as you stated, they should be raised on a farm where they eat grass, not shut up in a horrible feed lot and stuffed with grain that has been modified with "poisons" that make them grow faster and larger to make more money for the feed lot owners. Huge agrabusinesses that create most of our food now are poisoning us all. Let’s start a movement toward "real food" not vegan or vegitarian, but food that is safe and grown by old time true farmers.