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(Obamanomics in Action) Eat the Old: Could Mass Cannibalism Solve a Future Food Shortage?
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| October 28, 2011
| Adam Hadhazy
Posted on 10/28/2011 8:36:16 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
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Soylent Green is already for sale ... over at ThinkGeek.com
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posted on
10/28/2011 8:37:11 PM PDT
by
DogByte6RER
("Loose lips sink ships")
To: DogByte6RER
just about every bad thing started out as grotesque speculation in the media.
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posted on
10/28/2011 8:47:45 PM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(...then they came for the guitars, and we kicked their sorry faggot asses into the dust)
To: DogByte6RER
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posted on
10/28/2011 8:50:21 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
To: DogByte6RER
There are no problems growing food for 10 billion people if EPA, regulations and
corrupt governments around the world don't deliberately prevent it.
Africa has always been starving, and will continue to do so, until the local potentates start
working for their people instead of lining their own Swiss bank accounts.
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posted on
10/28/2011 8:55:29 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
To: DogByte6RER
There's a very good chance that generating food from traditional farming and livestock practices will not be able to keep pace with this boom.Where does that fake factoid come from?
We can feed several billion more with slight advances.
And obviously, the bozo that wrote this doesn't realize that we've been making much more than slight advances for the last 100 years.
Think log curves.
/johnny
To: DogByte6RER
“If everyone is eating each other, the species wont last very long,”
Yet, Barney Frank still exists.
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posted on
10/28/2011 9:08:42 PM PDT
by
Terry Mross
(Where is the OPPOSITION party? I'll only vote for a SECOND party.)
To: DogByte6RER
Does the report come with any recipes?
To: DogByte6RER
Warning. Be damned careful about which old people you pick for lunch. Some of us armed to the teeth and are mean as tormented vipers.
To: Terry Mross
Barney Frank’s partner consumes a little bit of Barney each night.
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posted on
10/28/2011 9:25:47 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: DogByte6RER
Obama will just keep redefining what “old people” mean. 70 one day, 35 the next.
“I had to eat Bobby, he was 10 but I’m 5. He was OLD!”
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posted on
10/28/2011 9:28:31 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: DogByte6RER
Oh horse shit!
We throw enough food out each day to feed a billion more people...
Then get the Governments off of peoples backs with all there OVER regulations and taxes and fees etc and they will be enough food. If not then we eat the politicians first..
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posted on
10/28/2011 9:30:45 PM PDT
by
SECURE AMERICA
(Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
To: JRandomFreeper
"We can feed several billion more with slight advances.." Well here is a hint on how many we can feed.
If we gather all the people in the world currently alive for one of those aerial group photos and you packed them in tightly they would cover an area less in size than the state of Rhode Island.
It takes less than 1 acre of farmland to feed a person for a year that means if we put all the people on one continent (say South America) everyone could live comfortably with plenty of room that would leave the rest of the entire planet to grow food in. The reason I use such an example is to give one an idea how big the planet is compared to the human population. (I am not advocating moving all the people around or anything its just so one can see that this crap about overpopulation is one of the biggest farces ever uttered.)
In other words there is plenty of space to grow food. Its just that most countries won't grow and produce enough food for themselves.
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posted on
10/28/2011 9:49:01 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: DogByte6RER
Mmmmm ... Soylent Green ...."
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posted on
10/28/2011 9:56:25 PM PDT
by
Lmo56
(If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
To: Mad Dawgg
Are there 7 billions of farmland in S. America? As opposed to acres of the Andes mountains or desert or Tierra del Fuego or flooded several months of the year Amazon river bottom?
To: Bernard Marx
Warning. Be damned careful about which old people you pick for lunch. Some of us armed to the teeth and are mean as tormented vipers.
Mmmmmmmm...extra crunchy!
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posted on
10/28/2011 10:09:44 PM PDT
by
Chickensoup
(In the 20th century 200 million people were killed by their own governments.)
To: DogByte6RER
But us skinnier old roosters are only good for soup, like our old hens. You gonna eat soup for decades, or what?
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posted on
10/28/2011 10:16:33 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --Deacon character, "Waterworld")
To: Mad Dawgg
In other words there is plenty of space to grow food. Its just that most countries won’t grow and produce enough food for themselves.
You are right ofcouse, but, around here, most of the homes, stores and factorys are build on the flat and best agricultural land, as is the roads and airports an what have you, soon all agricultural land will be under concrete and pavement, you can’t grow good crops on rocky and poor soil, I could go on
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posted on
10/28/2011 10:39:54 PM PDT
by
munin
(s)
To: heartwood
Except for thick alkali flats and the like, there’s farmland everywhere. Not much of the earth has a climate more brutally cold, dry and windy than mine.
People with a will to do so can install various kinds of water systems for wells or even desalinization plants. Most stories of local water shortages are false and are driven by corrupt political business agendas.
That’s why we’re eventually headed for technocracy...or else. For now, though, lazy-minded morons are most supported in leadership, academia and other comfortable positions. That’s the greatest current threat to the human population—not overpopulation.
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posted on
10/28/2011 10:41:33 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --Deacon character, "Waterworld")
To: munin
"You are right ofcouse, but, around here, most of the homes, stores and factorys are build on the flat and best agricultural land, as is the roads and airports an what have you,..."
Most of our North American population is in the east, because our elite, close neighbors keep them regulated away from the West. About half of my State is government-owned, and the rest, too exclusive for lowland peasants from the arable east.
"...soon all agricultural land will be under concrete and pavement, you cant grow good crops on rocky and poor soil, I could go on"
I looked at your FR page, and I'm south of you on the Range. I'm at over 9,000 feet elev. and can grow just about any garden vegetable despite the climate (freezes during summer, July hail storms, less than 13 inches of rain per year, winter temps. -35 F or lower, winter wind gusts over 100 mph, etc.).
As for your area, Germanic generations past did much farming up toward Bruderheim and the like. ...regulated out by environmentalists and animal worshipers, their children gone to the cities for lazier "service industry" incomes.
Another Freeper grows quite a garden each year in Alaska, very near the Yukon. Saskatchewan corporate socialists plotted, schemed and shut down the seed potato deal between farmers there and potato growers in Idaho years ago. ...could go on and on, but you see.
North and south of the border, we will use our resources and develop them...or else. We're not reproducing much, ourselves, but we have foreign hordes of cheap labor from the direction of the Equator to feed.
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posted on
10/28/2011 11:07:35 PM PDT
by
familyop
("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --Deacon character, "Waterworld")
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