[GJM] Misallocation of Resources leading to insanity?

[robert searle]

.....Ofcourse, if we did not eat meat we could save an a lot of land which is being wasted........

R.Searle


--- On Tue, 10/6/08, mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net> wrote:

> From: mary rose <maryrose333 at att.net>
> Subject: [GJM] Misallocation of Resources leading to insanity?
> To: FixGov at yahoogroups.com, "Discussion Forum for Global Justice" <discussion at globaljusticemovement.net>
> Date: Tuesday, 10 June, 2008, 4:10 PM
> Did you know that the U.S. uses 60 - 80% of its oil fighting
> wars in order to get more oil? 
> 
> Did you know that the largest U.S. agricultural sector is
> LAWNS?  Incredibly, lawns use more equipment, labor, fuel,
> and agricultural chemicals than all large-scale farming in
> the United States, making it the largest agricultural
> sector. 
> 
> What happened to food and nutrition as a first
> consideration? Well, what happened to food and nutrition is
> that the average transport length from producer to market in
> the U.S. is 1500 miles!!!!!!!!   
> 
> Did you know that it takes 3200 gallons of water to get one
> pound of beef to market, and that cattle (including milk
> cows) are now considered to be the number one contributer
> to global warming through methane emissions?  And we
> haven't even mentioned yet how many more people could
> be fed if we stopped cycling grain through beef and ate
> grain direct. Yet raising beef cattle for market is number
> three in revenue production in the world?
> And now, people not only have to compete with beef cattle
> for food, they have to compete with cars as well? 
> Wheeeeh!!!!!  
> 
> Did you know that the U.S. became the most prosperous
> nation in the history of the world in the years since World
> War II, yet in the same amount of time did more
> environmental damage than at any time in all of past
> recorded history? 
> 
> And now the solution to the problem is concentration camps
> and genocide?  
> 
> LETS STOP THE INSANITY !!!!!!
> 
> I'm going to be posting more of these facts and figures
> regularly.  Why don't all of you put on your thinking
> caps and help me accumulate a big list that we can begin to
> address by "being the change we wish to see in our
> lives." That is, by voting our dollars in the
> marketplace to create change where it really counts.  We
> may not be able to gain control of the monetary system and
> create reform at the present time, but we-the-people can
> give money a SOUL by wisely directing where it goes through
> modifying our spending habits. 
> 
> with love and gratitude to all of you for all that you do
> and all that we do together. 
> 
> mary rose_______________________________________________
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