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14. For more on the relationship between increased food production and population
growth, see Daniel Quinn, “Population: A Systems Approach.” Center for
Biotechnology Policy and Ethics, Texas A&M University, reprinted in Quinn, The
Story of B (New York: Bantam, 1996).
15. Mario Giampietro and David Pimentel, “Land, Energy and Water: The Constraints
Governing Ideal U.S. Population Size,” Focus, Spring 1991.
16. Worldwatch Institute, Vital Signs 1999 (Washington, DC: 1999), p. 114. “Today
nearly 1,000 major agricultural pests—including some 550 insect and mite species,
230 plant diseases, and 220 weeds—are immune to pesticides, a development
almost unheard of at mid-century.”
17. Giampietro and Pimentel, Food, Land, Population and the U.S. Economy.
18. Ibid.
19. Richard Heinberg, The Party’s Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies
(Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2003).
20. Colin J. Campbell, Peak Oil, Presentation at the Technical University of Clausthal,
Germany, December 2000. See page 7 of http://energycrisis.org/de/lecture.html.
21. Ibid, p. 2.
22. Adbusters Journal, November–December 2002.
23. “Animal Waste Pollution in America: An Emerging National Problem,” report of
the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and
Forestry, December 1997, p. 1.
24. John Robbins, Diet for a New America, p. 373.
25. “Scientists Fear Antibiotics Fed to Animals Pollute Streams,” Iowa Farmer Today
Online, March 29, 2001.
26. Elliot Diringer, “In Central Valley, Defiant Dairies Foul the Water,” San Francisco
Chronicle, July 7, 1997, p. A1.
27. According to The Sierra Club’s 2002 “Rap Sheet on Animal Factories,” a report
compiled after nearly three years of reviewing state and federal regulatory agencies’
records, “Millions of gallons of liquefied feces and urine seeped into the environment
from collapsed, leaking, or overflowing storage lagoons, and flowed into
rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, and groundwater.”
28. “U.S. Sets New Farm-Animal Pollution Curbs,” New York Times, December 16,
2002.
29. “Concentrating on Clean Water: The Challenge of Concentrated Animal Feeding
Operations,” Iowa Policy Project, April 2005. See also “Report Says Factory Farms
Cost Taxpayers,” WOI-TV / Associated Press, April 6, 2005.
30. “Smogburgers Would Be Out Under Air-Quality Plan,” San Jose Mercury News,
September 6, 1994, p. 3B.
31. C. Spedding, “The Effect of Dietary Changes on Agriculture,” in B. Lewis and G.
Assmann, eds., The Social and Economic Contexts of Coronary Prevention
(London: Current Medical Literature, 1990), cited in John Robbins, The Food
Revolution: How Your Diet Can Save Your Life and the World (Berkeley: Conari
Press, 2001), p. 294.
32. “Diverse Diets, with Meat and Milk, Endanger World Food Supply,” Hearst News
Service, March 8, 1997.
33. Robbins, Diet for a New America, p. 277.
34. Vasu Murti, They Shall Not Hurt or Destroy: Animal Rights and Vegetarianism in
the Western Religious Traditions (Cleveland: Vegetarian Advocates Press, 2003), p.
127.
35. Marion Nestle, Food Politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), p. 3.
36. For an historical analysis of how corporations gradually became the powerful “persons”
they are legally and economically today, see David Korten, When
Corporations Rule the World (West Hartford, CT: Kumarian Press, 1995).