Comments on: Getting Real – Really?!? http://corncommentary.com/2009/08/23/getting-real-really/ The blog about U.S. corn, corn products, and the family farmers behind it all. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:22:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Buck Slocombe http://corncommentary.com/2009/08/23/getting-real-really/comment-page-1/#comment-2900 Buck Slocombe Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:19:40 +0000 http://corncommentary.com/?p=2202#comment-2900 <i>"So, some guy in California is raising black Angus cattle on a pasture overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California – really. “He believes that his way of raising farm animals – in the open air, with no chemicals or drugs and with maximum care – is the only truly sustainable method.”"</i> But, you do have to admit raising free-range beef in the open air on a bluff overlooking the Pacific that sounds attractive. Of course, we could never raise enough beef for seven billion people doing it that way. The real problem is those seven billion people, which neither you nor the Time author will readily admit. If the earth's population were down around one billion, we could all* be eating organically-raised, grass-fed, free-range beef, and wouldn't need to use factory farming to raise corn and soy. It would be an attractive, sustainable, and better world. But it's not possible at seven billion people. _____________ * At least the 1 our of 7 that would be left. “So, some guy in California is raising black Angus cattle on a pasture overlooking the Pacific Ocean in California – really. “He believes that his way of raising farm animals – in the open air, with no chemicals or drugs and with maximum care – is the only truly sustainable method.””

But, you do have to admit raising free-range beef in the open air on a bluff overlooking the Pacific that sounds attractive. Of course, we could never raise enough beef for seven billion people doing it that way.

The real problem is those seven billion people, which neither you nor the Time author will readily admit. If the earth’s population were down around one billion, we could all* be eating organically-raised, grass-fed, free-range beef, and wouldn’t need to use factory farming to raise corn and soy.

It would be an attractive, sustainable, and better world. But it’s not possible at seven billion people.

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* At least the 1 our of 7 that would be left.

]]> By: Cyndi Puyear http://corncommentary.com/2009/08/23/getting-real-really/comment-page-1/#comment-2876 Cyndi Puyear Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:49:50 +0000 http://corncommentary.com/?p=2202#comment-2876 Amen, sister Amen, sister

]]> By: AgWired » Blog Archives » TIME for Yellow Journalism http://corncommentary.com/2009/08/23/getting-real-really/comment-page-1/#comment-2873 AgWired » Blog Archives » TIME for Yellow Journalism Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:02:33 +0000 http://corncommentary.com/?p=2202#comment-2873 [...] spent more time on this fantasy story than it is worth writing a post on Corn Commentary about it, and several other agricultural reporters have done the same. See in particular – [...] [...] spent more time on this fantasy story than it is worth writing a post on Corn Commentary about it, and several other agricultural reporters have done the same. See in particular – [...]

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