>Bissell here: not where I live.
Ok Steve. I understand. But it isn't an either/or issue, unless you do no
shopping at all. Again, with the situational aspect of this issue, I have
no problem with the true "mountain man" doing what he or she needs to to
survive. If you just don't want to be a vegetarian, then you won't be. But
if most people wanted to, they could.
Bryan H.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Bissell <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, March 21, 1999 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: Justified Hunting
>
>(snip)
>>I think you exaggerate the cost of your tofu burger. And I also think you
>>severly downplay a consideration of the experience of the elk (in the
>>context of your sentence, not necessarily in your actual experience).
>>Couldn't a possible alternative for escaping the global madness be to have
>a
>>small and managable organic garden? And I'm not suggesting to you what
you
>>should do, I'm only exploring possibilities.
>>\
>Bissell here: not where I live. Actually I do have a small organic garden
>(whatever that means, I've never seen an inorganic garden). One of the
>experts on edible plants, (I want to say Errington) wrote many years ago
>that the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains would not support a human if
>they tried to live on plant material alone. I don't know about that, but I
>do know that at this latitude and elevation, gardening is possible for
about
>six to seven months out of the year *as long as you can use excess water*.
>If you depend on rain fall, that figure falls to about three months. So,
the
>answer is "no, I cannot live on a small garden, or probably even a big
one."
>Ted Kerasote in "Bloodlines" wrote more about this issue, and quite well
too
>I might add.
>Steven
>
>
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