We live in a very industrialized world. A very disconnected world. Kids today are taught that food comes from grocery stores, from packages. Many kids have never met an animal other than cats, dogs, and whatever is running around on the streets of big cities. Many don’t understand the art of nature, hunting, fishing. Most people have never seen a bird eat a mouse, a moose running in the trails, and truly don’t understand nature. This creates a generation of vulnerable people who can easily be indoctrinated.
The most vegan food is meat, beef raised on the pasture. Modern farming today consists of tilling the soil (killing all of the animals, insects, etc), seeding, harrowing (again, killing all of the animals, insects, etc.), spreading herbicides to kill everything but the single crop that is growing, spraying pesticides to kill all of the animals that would otherwise try to eat the plant, and then the harvesting with large machinery. There is nothing from that process that is sustainable for the environment, who saves animals, and who helps stop the rising temperature of the planet. Yet, environmentalists have brainwashed an entire generation of people to think that eating plants on a large scale, is the only way that the planet will survive.
In the past, before everyone moved to cities, we used to do something called Mixed Farming. A farmer would have chickens, cattle, crops, vegetables and rotate the animals every year, which would keep the soil healthy.
Eventually, if we keep up monocrop agriculture without putting livestock on the ground, or practicing regenerative agriculture practices, the soil will die. It will turn into a desert. If let’s say the whole planet goes vegan, all of the land where vegetables are grown would become desert in 50-100 years because there is no nutrients going into the ground. In the past, nutrients would come from livestock manure.
Thankfully, it doesn’t have to be all doom and gloom. There is a way for us to get back to nature, while preserving our environment that we all love. Regenerative agriculture is the art of preserving the topsoil (which is eroding quickly right now under industrial farming practices). Regenerative agriculture preaches using livestock, reducing tilling, growing cover crops, having more diversity in the plants grown.
Educating our youth about where their food comes from will help them make informed decisions for their own health but also for the health of the planet. This will create a shift in the market, in which regenerative agriculture practices will be more in demand, making the much needed shift. Working with nature, instead of against it, will keep our everyone fed, while also keeping our Earth happy.