RE: Childhood indoctrination
June 7, 2013 at 12:07 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2013 at 12:09 pm by KichigaiNeko.)
Rhythm Wrote:Rgr that about feeding the multitudes. Resources are limited and not evenly distributed. Just to try and keep this thread at least near the rails - I sometimes wonder how much of what we absorb as children leads us to conclude that the earth is even -capable- of providing for us left to it's own devices.
My point in bringing up my own local soil structure Rhythm. Left to it's own devices (see that bit in the middle where nothing grows?) the majority of it would be isolated pockets of vegetative edibles/ fauna and if it wasn't for the indigenous "fire farming" would barely feed the human population of 8000 that were found in the South West corner of this state. Currently we have around 2 million people in this state (large as it is) and the majority are concentrated in this tiny South-West corner where the cattle/ sheep/ pigs/ fowl/ kangaroos/emus and other meat edibles are concentrated. Also the granite, you will notice is concentrated.
Essentially I guess I am striving to point out that this "vegan/ vegetarian utopia" is an unrealistic aspiration from a first world-elitist-city dwelling-intellectual who has never gotten their hands dirty.
I grew up on the east coast and really do miss my clay soils!

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