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- From: mmwang@adobe.com (Michael Wang)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: religion in general
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.015700.25209@adobe.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 01:57:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.150032.5145@wkuvx1.bitnet> <1johe2INNk9@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1johe2INNk9@gap.caltech.edu> keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider) writes:
- >westsh@wkuvx1.bitnet writes:
- >
- >>re:religion in general
- >>mostly, i agree with your letter. my problem with it is your comment about
- >>using religion as a reason of abstaining from the consumption of animal
- >>flesh. you say instead of worrying about religion, we could be solving
- >>world hunger. the key to solving world hunger is surprisingly simple.
- >>if all americans became vegetarians, we would be able to feed the world
- >>three times over!!!!! albeit, religion is not a good reason for this, but
- >>it works just the same. i agree religion of any kind is bull, but some of
- >>it has good ideas: like not killing people or animals. i am also glad that
- >>someone pointed out that christianity is not the only culprit. all
- >>religions are is a way to explain things without thinking.
- >>susan hamilton west
- >>the info on world hunger can be found in VEGETARIAN TIMES(i'm not sure what
- >>issue).
- >
- >It is well known that vegetarians are often fanatical and like to bend
- >the truth a little. Actually, just based on energy concerns, I suppose
- >we could feed the world if we stopped cycling food to the animals.
- >However, the people and animals don't really eat the same kinds of food.
- >The corn grown for pigs is not meant for human consumption. I suppose
- >it could be eaten, but it is rather course. Also, humans have a hard
- >time digesting various grasses. You can't just let a human graze in
- >the open range. In fact, most of the land used for cattle probably
- >couldn't be used for anything else (well, sheep, I guess). If somehow
- >you could get humans to eat grass, then I suppose youru statements
- >might be true.
-
- Well this is getting way off the subject of atheism, but it doesn't
- take much effort to replant fields to grow crops more suitable for
- human consumption (what is sorghum anyway?). Also, allowing cattle to
- graze on open ranges leads to desertification and contamination of the
- water table.
-
- In any event, the problem of world hunger is not one of supply but of
- distribution. Look at what the U.N. had to do to make sure people are
- getting food in Somalia. Before the troops arrived, warlords were
- stealing all the food that was being sent in to that country.
-
- --
- Michael Wang
- mmwang@mv.us.adobe.com
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