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46.David Pimentel, “Land Degradation: Effects on Food and Energy Resources,” op. cit., p. 150, estimates $500 million costs of sediment damage. Philip LeVeen, in “Some Considerations for Soil Conservation Policy,” unpublished manuscript, Public Interest Economics, 1981, p. 29, estimates $1 billion.
47. Soil Degradation: Effects on Agricultural Productivity, op. cit., p. 28.
48. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economics and Statistics Service, Natural Resource Capital in U.S. Agriculture: Irrigation, Drainage and Conservation Investments Since 1900, ESCS Staff Paper, March 1979.
49. Ag World, April 1978, citing work of Clifton Halsey, University of Minnesota conservationist.
50. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Handbook of Agricultural Charts, 1979, p. 19.
51. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Fertilizer Situation, 1980, p. 14.
52. Medard Gabel, Cornucopia Project, Preliminary Report, Rodale, Inc., Emmaus, Pa. 18049, p. 33.
53. C. A. Wolfbauer, “Mineral Resources for Agricultural Use,” in Agriculture and Energy, William Lockeretz, ed. (New York: Academic Press, 1977), pp. 301–14. See also Facts and Problems, U.S. Bureau of Mines, 1975, pp. 758–868.
54. General Accounting Office, Phosphates: A Case Study of A Valuable Depleting Mineral in America, Report to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States, EMD-80–21, November 30, 1979, p. 1.
55. Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 4, no. 12, 1970, p. 1098.
56. Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle (Knopf, 1971), p. 148.
57. Georg Borgstrom, The Food and People Dilemma (Duxbury Press, 1973), p. 103.
58. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economics and Statistics Service, Natural Resource Capital in U.S. Agriculture: Irrigation, Drainage and Conservation Investments Since 1900, ESCS Staff Paper, March 1979.
59. General Accounting Office, Federal Charges for Irrigation Projects Reviewed Do Not Cover Costs, Report to the Congress of the United States from the Comptroller General, PAD-81–07, March 3, 1981, p. 43.
60. Ibid. p. 26.
61. Julia Vitullo-Martin, “Ending the Southwest’s Water Binge,” Fortune, February 23, 1981, pp. 93 ff.
62. Ibid.
63. Federal Charges, op. cit., pp. 3–4.
64. “Ending the Southwest’s Water Binge,” op. cit.
65. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farmline, September 1980.
66. Milton Moskowitz, Michael Katz, and Robert Levering, eds., Everybody’s Business: An Almanac (Harper and Row, 1980), p. 643.
67. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economics and Statistics Service, Status of the Family-Farm, Second Annual Report to the Congress, Agricultural Economic Report No. 434, p. 47.
68. Ibid. p. 45.
69. Joseph C. Meisner and V. James Rhodes, The Changing Structure of U.S. Cattle Feeding, Special Report 167, Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, November 1974, p. 13.
70. “Past, Present and Future Resource Allocation to Livestock Production,” in Animals, Feed, Food and People, An Analysis of the Role of Animals in Food Production, op. cit.
71. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statistics, 1979, pp. 435–38.
Chapter 3. The Meat Mystique
1. Winrock International Livestock Research and Training Center, The World Livestock Product, Feedstuff, and Food Grain System: An Analysis and Evaluation of System Interactions Throughout the World, with Projections to 1985, Winrock, Arkansas, 1981.
2. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Utilization of Grain for Livestock Feed, Washington, D.C., May 1, 1980, pp. 4–6.
3. Kenneth Bachman and Leonardo Paulino, Rapid Growth in Food Production in Selected Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Underlying Trends, 1961–76, Research Report 11, International Food Policy Research Institute, October 1979, p. 29.
4. “Replacing Energy as the Inflation Villain: Agriculture,” Business Week, June 1, 1981, p. 71.
5. Maurice Brannan, “Trade Patterns,” Feedstuffs, September 1, 1980.
6. Interview with J. Dawson Ahalt, Chairman, World Food and Agricultural Outlook and Situation Board, U.S. Department of Agriculture, July, 1980.
7. For