11-28-2008, 09:24 PM
Bill in NC wrote:
"So if people were to eat the corn fed to cattle rather than eat the cattle fed the corn there would be a several-fold more efficient use of solar energy."
the only reason that corn is planted is for animal feed.
if people stopped eating animal meat, the corn wouldn't be planted.
I put it the way I did for the sake of brevity. The corn reference was simply meant as a placeholder name for all kinds of plants we feed to cattle. It's not like a farmer in Iowa with 300 acres of land isn't going to grow anything on the land if she can't grow a variety of corn best suited for cattle feed.