by the way, since no one seems to get this - you NEED LIVESTOCK FOR REGENERATIVE FARMING. HOLY SHIT. Yes the massive fields of feed-grade corn monocultures are bad. If you exchanged that for a sustainable permaculture farm focused on cyclical production, you need the fucking animals.
Livestock produce manure to feed the plants. Chickens peck through and scatter livestock feces to distribute it. Pigs rut through and turn the compost to oxygenate it and make it usable. Those animals die and any uneaten or unused remains return to the compost to nourish the soil. The meat of those animals feeds the livestock guardian dogs that keep the whole operation from getting destroyed by a group of coyotes. The selective breeding and slaughtering of the livestock allows for guaranteeing a long line of hardy and healthy animals that can live happy, healthy lives in their environment. The plants feed the animals and the animals feed the plants. Any agriculture that does not lean into this natural cycle results in greater damage to the environment. You cannot eliminate death from nature, and agriculture is just doing our best to rein in nature in a way that both benefits the organisms needed and nourishes us. You can be a fool and a coward who wants to insist no animals die for your food, ignoring the fact that consequences exist outside of direct slaughter and industrial production of anything results in the death and misery animals, plants, and people, but outsourcing the death that occurs as a result of your consumption so that you can pretend you didn’t have any hand in it will not stop it from happening, it just makes it easier to ignore and thus never address or improve.
If tomorrow, we eliminated animal agriculture period, food systems across the entire world would collapse. There is a symbiotic relationship between producing meat for eating and producing plants for eating. This is what I mean when I say people who don’t understand the impact of agriculture. I mean you are speaking on something you have no fucking hands on experience with. Watching Food Inc doesn’t mean you now know how to fix global agriculture. Everyone wants an easy answer. Everyone wants to say “well, if I go vegan I can make a difference!” because that’s simple. To confront the ways that global capitalism has made food production universally damaging is complex. I don’t care if you have your reasons for going vegan. I think personal ethics is a perfectly fine reason to do anything. But to claim it’s any kind of solution is just trying to use a simple answer for a much more complex question.
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