On Sep 14, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Jon Louis Mann wrote: >> I'd like to see some numbers on how we could feed the >> existing mouths >> at a price they can afford to pay if the latter >> restrictions were enforced worldwide. Do you have any? >> . . . ronn! :) > > > hell no!~) i said that we can't feed the world and dispense with > agribusiness, but i hope we can dispense make food production more > productive and less destructive to habitats. we are approaching 7 > billion people and little sign of reaching zpg. > jon
Any solution yet to the problem that any sort of advance in the efficiency of growing and producing crops is immediately countered by a corresponding increase in population and thus demand for the food being produced? "She was a supersized meal of pop culture. We gobbled her down—in Playboy or on the E! network—felt a little sick afterward and then blamed her, like heart patients suing a fast-food chain." -- James Poniewozik in an essay about Anna Nicole Smith in Time magazine _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
