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To: Steelfish
“Meat is a wasteful use of water”

Isn't there a large river in India where the dead are routinely disposed of in?

5 posted on 11/20/2009 10:44:49 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

The Ganges.

The drill there is to burn the bodies and dispose of the ashes in the Ganges. Often the burning isn’t complete, leading to some problems.


7 posted on 11/20/2009 10:47:51 AM PST by buwaya
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To: NavyCanDo
Oh and lets not forget about the funeral pyers in India. How much smoke from those millions of burnt bodies each year enter our air?
11 posted on 11/20/2009 10:48:05 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: NavyCanDo

Next they’ll tell us we are wasteful for having separate seewage and drinking water systems. An arrogant indian, aka WOG is difficult to stomach.


44 posted on 11/20/2009 11:05:08 AM PST by ichabod1 ( I am rolling over in my grave and I am not even dead yet.)
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To: NavyCanDo; Steelfish
“Meat is a wasteful use of water... ”

... as if cultivating hillside after hillside and meadow after meadow for grain and fiber crops (yes, remember that much of the clothing you're wearing right now was GROWN on cultivated ag land) isn't an enormously wasteful and inefficient use of land and, for irrigated crops like cotton and vegetables, water. Cattle, on the other hand, can graze on land that is useless for growing crops because of poor soil, wrong climate, or difficult geography. Those beef animals convert otherwise near-useless land's weeds and grain too low in protein to be of much nutritional value for humans, into meat, milk, medicine, and leather.

When a cow or steer goes to slaughter, every smidgen of the critter is used for something, and it shows up in everything from industrial glues and steel processing to shoes and medicine.

Pound for pound, drop for drop, a beef animal provides ENORMOUSLY more than any crop and with far more efficiency.

46 posted on 11/20/2009 11:05:57 AM PST by Finny ("Raise hell. Vote smart." -- Ted Nugent.)
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