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The Vegetarian Myth

Food, Justice, and Sustainability
“According to the British group VegFram, a 10-acre farm can support 60 people growing soybeans, 24 people growing wheat, 10 people growing corn and only two producing cattle,” Motavalli continues. And he believes them? Set aside the fact that a diet of soy, wheat or corn will result in massive malnutrition – along with fun stuff like kwashiorkor, pellagra, retardation, blindness – and ultimately death. The figures of two cattle might be true if you assume grain feeding, though I can’t make the math come out right. By contrast, a ten acre farm of perennial polyculture in a mid-Atlantic climate could produce: 3,000 eggs 1,000 boilers 80 stewing hens 2,000 pounds of beef 2,500 pounds of pork 100 turkeys 50 rabbits