07-10-2009, 01:49 PM
Quote:Also consider that the US exports quite a bit of its agricultural production to feed the rest of the world.The times with the USA being one of the largest grain exporters (most of it to 'enemy' Russia, oddly enough) are over, in case you missed that. Nowadays, the USA imports far more food as it can export.
There is the huge amount of imported foodstuff for your lifestock to consider, yes. Don't you know that 'growing' one Kg meat can take 5 to 30 times the amount of land needed to grow a Kg of grain? No, that's not the size of the pastures they are in.