Hi Darryl
Hope you don't feel I was getting at you, it was just a general comment.
In Canada, local, small scale ethanol production is effectively illegal.
The permitting process is so difficult, I understand most people simply
give up rather than try to make their own. Making it without a
No pressure felt at this end, just thought is was worth clarifying.
No idea what the official rationale is, never bothered to ask. The
sense amongst those I have spoken with is threat to corporate profits
and very high tax revenues collected on liquor sales at both federal and
provincial
Hi Darryl
The FAO report referred to is Livestock's long shadow -
Environmental issues and options, see below.
We dealt with it before, it's a little unfocused in some ways but
basically it's a critique of industrialised agriculture and factory
farming. It's often used by militant vegans and
Hi Keith,
I do vaguely recall this being discussed before. I concur that CAFO is
unsustainable, and personally I am an advocate of CSA, local/home food
production, and generally (in the North American context) a less meat
rather than meatless diet. I noted in the article that they did mention
A more recent FAO report - see also:
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062007G.shtml
A Domestic Breed Disappears Every Month
The FAO sounds the alarm over a global threat to farm animal diversity.
Tuesday 19 June 2007
The full report:
The State of the World's Animal Genetic Resources for Food
Ignoring the meat of the global warming issue
We all emit greenhouse gases simply by breathing -
one kilogram of carbon dioxide a day, on average,
per person. Since there are six billion of us, we
collectively emit more than two trillion kilograms of
carbon dioxide a year. Scientists don't hold
