----- Original Message ----- From: "The Fool" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2002 2:05 PM Subject: Re: Efficiency in Genocide
> The farmland from say Iowa, alone could feed the entire population of the > world. As it stands 99% of food produced in Iowa and other states goes > to feed animals. Well, my father-in-law is a farmer who lives about 20 miles from Iowa. A darned good yield for corn is 200 bushels/acre. Assuming that 100% of Iowa yields this much (which is clearly an overstatement), we have a yield of 7.1 billion bushels of corn from Iowa's 35 million acres. The world's population is about 6.3 billion. That is slighly more than 1 bushel of corn per person. Do you stand by the claim that the entire population of the world could be fed from crops produced in Iowa? 1.1 bushel of corn per year converts to to about 0.1 liters of corn on the cob per day. I cannot imagine that amount of food being enough to live on. Dan M.
