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   XPost: soc.culture.usa   
      
   It is not milk or meat production per sey, it is the amount of   
   livestock.  From the article:   
      
   "Planet Earth is suffereing.  In large measure, the escalating loss of   
   species, destruction of ancient rainforests to create pasture lands for   
   live stock, loss of topsoils and the consequent increase of water   
   impurities and air pollution have all been traced to the single fact of   
   meat in the human diet.  No decision that we can make as individuals or   
   as a race can have such a dramatic effect on the improvement of our   
   planetary ecology as the decision not to eat mea"   
      
   Looking at s. asia in this regard:   
      
   India has one of the largest livestock population in the world. Fifty   
   percent of the buffaloes and twenty percent of the cattle in the world   
   are found in India, most of which are milch cows and milch buffaloes."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)