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- From: robert@isgtec.com (Robert Osborne)
- Newsgroups: can.general,talk.politics.animals
- Subject: Re: Food chain (was Re: Killing animals (was Re: hunting dog wanted))
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 17:50:05 GMT
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- Rosemary Waigh (g9rwaigh@cdf.toronto.edu) wrote:
- : In the states, for each acre of forest cleared for parking lots, roads,
- : houses, shopping centres, etc., *seven* are cleared for meat production
- : (land for grazing or growing feed). I don't have the stats for Canada,
- : but I see little reason to suspect it's much different.
-
- I know for a fact that the situation is different in Ontario.
- A large number of dairy/beef farms in Northern Ontario (about the
- only undeveloped part of the province) are returning to their
- natural state. These farms cannot compete with farms with better
- weather/soil.
-
- Rob.
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