Question about production numbers

Sometimes its easy to believe that we know all about the human body and how it works and what it needs...

However we are talking about an alien environment without any of the nuances of the home planet and therefore creating a stress situation for health in human's to a degree we really don't now.

It would seem best to try and minimize that stress where possible, by having as much in the nutrition dept be the 'same' as what humans have had for millennia... So much is being discovered about micro quantities of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients that it keeps anyone from really knowing WHAT is essential from our food...which already has been subverted.

So perhaps NOT having animals products for food is not really a choice... or at least not anymore of a choice for long term health than eliminating air or water, regardless of how inconvenient animal products may be.

Just gonna have to suck it up and figure out someway to truly replicate as much as possible the human environment.

From: Combs, Mike
To: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:24 AM
Subject: RE: [spacesettlers] Re: Question about production numbers

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Felicia

> While I have seen many websites that talk about colonies
> raising animals for food, I think that is a luxury that
> they don't have.

Even if economics rule out the raising of cattle (and I would only
expect that to be the case in the early years of space settlement),
please be open-minded about the raising of rabbits and goats. Keith and
Carolyn Henson wrote about this in the early days of space settlement
discussion.

Regards,

Mike Combs