[Novalug] [OT] Food and Population was Re: Pen is mightier than sword -- Speech restricted hereon , too

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Bonnie Dalzell wrote:

> Food:
>
> First let me say that to grow large brains in humans need a lot of protein in 
> their diets as infants and children. There are specific mental deficiency 
> diseases that are caused by protein insuficiency in the diets of children. 
> Also cattle, sheep and goats do not have to be fed grain, their value in 
> human nutrition is specificially that being ruminants they can live and grow 
> on cellulosic foodstuffs that people cannot get nutrition out of.
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> Restriction of Wild Animal Habitat:
>
> It does not matter wether you are growing crops for your cattle 
> on an acre of land or you are growing grain for your humans on 
> an acre of land, you are still using that land for human use.
>
> Population:
>
> Based on stuff I learned in my college ecology courses the 
> reproductive potential of any population is - over a large 
> female to male range - proportional to the number of 
> reproducing females only.
 	[...]
> Here is a really detailed site about understaning population dynamics.
>
> http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Populations.html
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 	Thank you! One of the pleasures of my favorite lists, 
including this one, is that when they do go OT for a spell, they 
elicit seriously good info. I'm years behind, if not decades, on 
most these topics, and it's good to get a fresh start. Thanks 
again!

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