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16 Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (CAST) (1999), Animal Agriculture and Food Supply.
17 CAST (1999) ibid . , p 42. And Pimentel, D and Pimentel, M, 'Sustainability of Meat-based and Plant-based Diets
and the Environment' , American Journal of Clinical Nutrition , Vol. 78, No. 3, 660S-663S, September 2003. Neither au-
thor gives any substantiation for this figure. The Pimentels refer the reader back to Pimentel, D and Pimentel, M (1996)
Food, Energy and Society , Colorado University Press, but I couldn't locate the figure in this topic via the index.
18 Ross, Eric (1980), 'Patterns of Diet and Forces of Production: An Economic and Ecological History of the Ascend-
ancy of Beef in the US Diet', in Ross, Eric (ed.), Beyond the Myths of Culture , Academic Press, p 202.
19 Monopolies and Merger Commission, Animal Waste: A Report on the Supply of Animal Waste in Great Britain ,
MMC, 1985, p 12, www.competition-commission.org.uk .
20 Friends of the Earth et al , 'The Oil for Ape Scandal: How Palm Oil is Threatening Orang-utan Survival', Friends
of the Earth research report, 2005. www.foe.co.uk/resource/reports/oil_for_ape_full.pdf
21 The above list comes from Rifkin (1992), op cit. , p 274.
22 BBC News, 'Nigeria Eats its Shoe Leather', BBC News Report, 14 November 2000. For a tempting recipe for
Nigerian cassava salad with pomo, see www.nigerianbloggers.com/Nigerian_Blog_featuring_delicious_recipes/?medi-
a=rss ; Nov 5, 2008
23 Annual Abstract of Statistics (1998), 9.15 and (2009 ), 21.16. Liver was consumed once a week, by 18 per cent
of the population in 1979, but by 2 per cent in 1996. Other kinds of offal (heart, lights, tripe, etc) were consumed once a
week by six per cent of the population in 1979 but only by one per cent in 1996. I can no longer locate the reference for
these statistics.
24 Monopolies and Merger Commission (1985), op cit. 19 .
25 www.tannerscouncilict.org/statistics.htm ; Tara Garnett gives a figure of 7.7 per cent taken from a 2002 Catalan life
cycle analysis. Garnett,Tara (2008) Cooking Up a Storm , Food Climate Research Network, p65, http://www.fcrn.org.uk/
frcnPubs/publications/PDFs/CuaS_web.pdf
26 Garnett (2008), ibid.
27 CAST, op cit. 16, p 35.
28 Reisner, Marc (1986), Cadillac Desert , Penguin.
29 See for example: Welsh Institute of Rural Studies, Final Report to the Milk Development Council , 5 August 2000,
randd.defra.gov.uk/Document.aspx?Document=LS0301_723_FRA.doc
30 Nix (2007), op cit. 11 ; and The Keys to Maximizing Maize Silage Profitability , Pioneer, www.pioneer.co.nz
31 Nix (2007), ibid . , p 17.
32 Elferink, E V et al ( 2007), 'Feeding Livestock Food Residue and the Consequences for the Environmental Impact
of Meat', Journal of Cleaner Production , pp 1-7.
33 DEFRA, Agriculture During World War II, 2008, http://www.defra.gov.uk/esg/work_htm/publications/cs/farm-
stats_web/History/WWII/WWII_stats.htm
34 Fadel, J G (1999), 'Quantitative Analyses of Selected Plant Byproduct Feedstuffs, a Global Perspective', Animal
Feed Science and Technology 79, pp 255-268.
35 Very roughly 25 per cent of the protein, and 29 per cent of calories, according to calculations derived from 1996
production figures in Seré and Steinfeld (1996), op cit. 14.