Thoughts on the station's biosystem

--- In spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com, "Xenophile"
wrote:
> --- In spacesettlers, "Felicia" wrote:
>
> >> Given the choice of living in a copy of central park or a
> >> copy of Bucktooth Alabama, I'd choose central park. IMHO,
> >> it's more impractical to expect people to want to live in
> >> a space farm than it is to have a separate food ring.
>
> > Putting aside the stereotypes of Alabama, I am certain
> > that at least I would rather live in a farming community
> > than in a planned park. Certainly, our differing opinions
> > indicates that there ought to be a choice.
>
Perhaps this needs to be looked at in a different light - perhaps
the living area needs to have a small amount of animals to help with
recycling - personally I don't know of any small child who eats all
of his meals or does not have a fair bit of edible waste - having
enough chickens or other small omnivores to cycle this and provide a
small return as a special meal later on would be preferable. I would
not want to live in an area that they call a farm on earth but
really enjoy small scale gardens even though we acquire most food
from a distribution system.