On Wed, 28 Aug 1996, Harold Ancell wrote:

producing food.  Kill off all the domesticated animals in the US, and
we'd be swimming in grain.  Our food would be relatively boring, but
plentiful.

There a few details with regards to "essential" amino acids (a
handful are rare in plants), but fermentation technology could take
care of that handily.

Wait a second...  are you saying we would drink beer instead of eating
meat?

Hm....  tough tradeoff.  I think I could live with it.