"Lawrence" wrote in message
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On Jun 13, 9:23 am, "Noozer" wrote:
I just had a thought...

Pushing everyone over to CFLs from incandecent bulbs is supposed to save
a
lot of electricity, right?

Well, how much power does it take to cook a roast for a family of five in
your average electric oven? Bet we'd save a lot more money if we forced
everyone over to microwave/convection systems.

You would save a lot of greenhouse emissions by excluding
conventionally produced meat from your diet. Tremendous amounts of
land and energy is used to grow food for livestock. Conventional corn/
beans agriculture also erodes the soil and introduces harmful ag
chemicals into the ground water. Wild game and grass fed livestock
excluded of course.

You are absolutely correct.
The "efficiency" of of growing animals is about the same as that of a
gasoline engine: 33%.
Which means you lose, from the gitgo, about 2/3 of the food calories the
land can produce in grains etc.
A very very important issue, that will never make through the media.
Not to mention the absolute barbarism of slaughter houses, the
Hitler/Stalin/Saddam-esque cruelty involved in livestock raising, etc.
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