Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
livestock agriculture to provide its non-meat component. This is the ideal farming system
for any society wishing to reduce the number of its farmers to a minimum, or to grow wide
areas of biofuels, or to support large urban populations - all main objectives of modern so-
cial policy. With industrial processing of pea, bean and grain protein into artificial meat and
milk, a semblance of an animal-based diet could be provided for about 200 million people.
TABLE A: MELLANBY'S BASIC DIET 1975
• 5.3 million hectares available
• 5.7 million hectares of pasture
• 7.8 million spare hectares
Population 53 million. Agricultural land 18.8 million ha.
• One hectare of arable plus one of pasture feeds 10 people
TABLE B: CHEMICAL WITH LIVESTOCK
• 4.4 million hectares arable
• 6.4 million hectares of pasture
• 7.6 million spare hectares
Population 60.6 million. Agricultural land 18.5 million ha. Forestry etc 3.69 ha.
• One hectare of arable plus 1.5 hectare of pasture feeds 14 people
TABLE C: CHEMICAL VEGAN
• 3 million hectares arable
• 15.6 million spare hectares
