Israel has water because they screwed everyone else, like building a huge ass wall to separate the Palestinian farmers from their own wells and then controlling the access to that water. They were serious when they said they would starve them out.

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the Israelis cannot claim sole ownership of the invention of drip-irrigation. This technique has been used since biblical times but was refined by the Israelis and others.

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2,500 gallons per pound - primarily because of irrigated pasture. (Alfalfa is worse than rice for water use.) And, apparently about 2/3 of all US water consumption is irrigation...

Let's say the computer takes 10,000 gallons of water to produce, and you get a new one every year... still small compared to that cow.

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According to Juliette Bairacli Levy, who wrote, "The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm and Stable", the natural diet of a goat should consist of:

Abundant sweet water
Iodine-rich foods
Foods rich in aromatic oils
Rock salt, especially in hot climates
Leafy and woody food, other than grasses – woodland grazing
Oats planted along with vetches
Barley (the goat cereal)
Alfalfa
Sunflower – the whole plant and the seed heads
Linseed
Corn, including the inner cobs
Flaked barley and rolled oats
Wheat bran
Dried beet pulp
In the winter: silage (fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo) prepared with molasses (a nutritious change from dry hay)

As a result of the wide variety of foods goats consume, goat products are very nutritious, far more so than the products from cows.

Another huge bonus with goats is that these animals adapt well to a wide range of environmental conditions.

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old shirts.

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Tires, car seats, tin cans, rope, paper, and much, much more.

I do wish these so called experts would actually travel to places where goats are common and left to forage for themselves, unpenned.

That above list may be the author's opinion of diet for Goats, in my experience the Goats do not agree.

is the author's point of reference. It's the time before human thrash polluted the planet.

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Thank you. The author of the book I referenced is talking about a herbal diet. If you want a healthy goat, New World domesticate or not, you're not going to feed them human thrash.

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but it's hard to beat pigs for putting on lots of weight, fast from basically trash. They can also be used to prepare one of the best garden plots possible. A season of pigs, followed by a season of gardening is like, wow. They shit, till and aerate so it's a plot of compost by the time they're done with it.

Pigs were called 'mortgage raisers'. They paid off a lot of homesteads.

Re tilling: My potbelly wandered onto my neighbor's lawn and 'rototilled' about a 20x20 patch - nice neat corners, too. Neighbor had the house on the market, so wasn't too pleased. I re-sodded it and fenced the pig, which did not please her.
In the Fall, she was used to pigging out on apples from the trees that dated back 150 years when the land was a farm. She ate anything, include xmas tree bulbs and poinsettia but daffodils nearly killed her.

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...two other common domesticates in the same territory (assuming the pigs are slaughtered at the correct weight) for efficient conversion of feed into meat calories - chicken and dogs (and the latter is culturally out for most North Americans).

"The latter does not, BTW, taste like chicken. Additionally, when your survival instructor says 'It tastes just like chicken' he/she fucking lies." ~ me

by Stephen Ambrose, William Clark wrote, "All the Party have greatly the advantage of me, in as much as they all relish the flesh of the dogs" As the Corp of Discovery canoed down the Clearwater, Snake, and Columbia Rivers..., they traded with the Indian tribes for dogs to eat. The Nez Perce tribe in particular looked down on them for this practice.

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they ain't good for our body. Pork is very high in fat. That said, I always look forward to my once a month ration of cold smoked organic bacon. The farmer says that because he treats his pigs with respect they treat him with respect ... lol.

Oink! Oink!

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Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you, but pigs treat you as equals.
:-)
BTW: You can starve to death on a fat-free diet and I'd rather get mine from ham than Twinkies.

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I'm a vegetarian but once in while I cheat. Gotta have my monthly treat of superior bacon and an occasional exquisite Filet Mignon smothered in mouth-watering gravy with a touch of cognac. But vegetarian or not, wild salmon from BC is a weekly favorite of my family.

Try this fish sauce (for two pieces)

One tablespoon lemon juice
One tablespoon maple syrup
One tablepoon Stone Ground Brown Mustard

Mix and spread over fish prior to baking.

It's to die for :-)

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Thanks for the recipe - will try it soon.

I recommend Raye's of Eastport Maine, the last stone-ground mustard mill in the country.

Particularly recommend:
Dundicott Hott if you like stuff like habeneros or jalapenos.
Old World Gourmet - very good traditional Dijon style.
or Jameson Tavern Style the best mustard I ever found.

Enjoy!

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straddle the Canada/US border. Future Canada/US war?

The Great Lakes could be bone dry in 80 years.

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Just let it run.