A vegetarian, or a vegan, especially a low fat diet, is not sufficient nutrition for a long term maintenance and repair of the human body. To put it bluntly, it will damage you. Honestly, most people who are strict vegetarians, usually would not go more then 5 years without experiencing some sorts of health related symptoms or conditions. Fatigue, low thyroid, joints pain, tooth decay, depression, anxiety, dry skin, etc.
Okay. Now, let's take a fruit for example. How about an apple. A fruit, so non-violent, that anyone can eat it and people who can live by eating fruits alone. So, eating fruits is fine with vegetarians since no death is involved. Well, so the story goes. The problem is that no human plant those seeds. We discard them, and consciously remove the core and throw away the seeds, "Away", in industrial countries, means sealed in a plastic bag that get entombed in the landfill. Or, if we are eco-righteous, we throw the seeds on the compose heap, where time, heat and bacteria will kill them. None of this, is what the tree had in mind.
Why are humans allowed to take without giving away? Isn't that called exploitation? The reason why the tree expands tremendous resources accumulating fibers and sugar, is to secure the best possible future for its offspring. And we take that offspring in its sweetness, and kill it. This is not what moral vegetarians want to hear, and nutritional vegetarians who believe that animal products are the root of all dietary evil.
Moving on, the origin of an apple, is suppose to taste bitter long time ago. Apples are domesticated. Fruit trees are grafted, not sprouted. An apple falls from the tree, we eat the sweetness out of it, and despite claims to the contrary, we kill the seeds. Does any of us ever thought about this when we are all eating fruits? I would say almost none of us even really care about the food available to us in this modern environment.
Then, there was the soil. Was the soil actually eating? What is soil? Was it too alive? Well, one table spoon of typical soil, contains more then one million microorganisms. A gram of healthy soil, could easily contains up to six million living microorganisms. Soil isn't just dirt. We basically have a city of tiny creatures living in a single gram of health soil. Soil is not a thing, it is a million things and they are alive. In organic farming, one of the most important commandment, is to feed the soil, and not the plant.
In industrial nations, synthetic fertilizers destroyed the soil. It is the synthetic fertilizers that created the green revolution, with its 250% increase in crops. Besides the fact that anything made out of fossil fuel is not sustainable, we cannot grow fossil fuel and it doesn't reproduce itself. Nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, are the elements that rule plant growth. The irony is that, either source of nitrogen, synthetic or organic, comes from animals. Most people doesn't know that. All we know is eating tons of junk food and fast food and we all fall sick and grow fatter. Has anyone ever read the labels of the fertilizer? Blood meal, bone meal, dead animals, dried and ground. Yes, those are the ingredients of various fertilizers used to grow plant. Guess what? Great number of vegetarians DON'T know that! Honestly, I've never met any vegetarians or vegans who is aware of this fact.
Globally. phosphorus is available in extremely limited quantities. It will be one of the most inexorable limits to human occupancy on this planet. Without vast amounts of fossil fuel, would that even be possible? What will happen when we used it all up?
Next, we have potassium. It's available in ash, bones, manure, urine and probably some crops. And without calcium, the growth of plants stops. There is a give-and-take,or what I would call it reciprocal relationship between animals and plants. It is only our attempts to remove ourselves from that cycle that destroy it. Majority of the vegans and vegetarians are ignorance. Well, same goes to most people when it comes to health related concerns. Since killing is a sacrilege in this moral 'vegetarian' system, he or she, can't acknowledge that the actuality of eating something alive.
What about non-tillage systems? They are effective at slowing topsoil losses. But, in order to clear the land, the plow is replaced by herbicides. Do any of us need to argue that spraying poison over the continents is a bad idea? Countries such as US and Brazil, are two biggest producers of soy. Yes, it increases the rural income, by does is it really a sustainable production practices?
So, here is an agriculture without animals, the plant based diet, which supposed to be life affirming and ethically righteous. First, take a piece of land from somebody else, because the history of agriculture is the history of imperialism. Next, burn or bulldoze every life out of it, trees, grass, wetlands. That includes all animals great and small, including wolves, mice, locusts, etc. Now, plant your own annual monocrops. Your grains and beans will survive at first, living off the organic matter created by the now-dead forest. But like any other starving beast, the soil will eats up its reserves, until nothing left, no organic matter, no biological activity left. As your yield begins to dwindle, you now got two options. Take another piece of land and starts over again, or apply some fertilizer. Since 'moral vegetarian' ethical way of farming are not suppose to use any animal product, we have to rule out manure which contains bone or blood meal. So, you supply nitrogen from fossil fuel. As we can't produce fossil fuel ourselves, this production is an ecological nightmare. When oil and gas run out, what will happen then? How about phosphorus from the rocks and potassium from the wood ashes?
In industrial nations, synthetic fertilizers destroyed the soil. It is the synthetic fertilizers that created the green revolution, with its 250% increase in crops. Besides the fact that anything made out of fossil fuel is not sustainable, we cannot grow fossil fuel and it doesn't reproduce itself. Nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus, are the elements that rule plant growth. The irony is that, either source of nitrogen, synthetic or organic, comes from animals. Most people doesn't know that. All we know is eating tons of junk food and fast food and we all fall sick and grow fatter. Has anyone ever read the labels of the fertilizer? Blood meal, bone meal, dead animals, dried and ground. Yes, those are the ingredients of various fertilizers used to grow plant. Guess what? Great number of vegetarians DON'T know that! Honestly, I've never met any vegetarians or vegans who is aware of this fact.
Globally. phosphorus is available in extremely limited quantities. It will be one of the most inexorable limits to human occupancy on this planet. Without vast amounts of fossil fuel, would that even be possible? What will happen when we used it all up?
Next, we have potassium. It's available in ash, bones, manure, urine and probably some crops. And without calcium, the growth of plants stops. There is a give-and-take,or what I would call it reciprocal relationship between animals and plants. It is only our attempts to remove ourselves from that cycle that destroy it. Majority of the vegans and vegetarians are ignorance. Well, same goes to most people when it comes to health related concerns. Since killing is a sacrilege in this moral 'vegetarian' system, he or she, can't acknowledge that the actuality of eating something alive.
What about non-tillage systems? They are effective at slowing topsoil losses. But, in order to clear the land, the plow is replaced by herbicides. Do any of us need to argue that spraying poison over the continents is a bad idea? Countries such as US and Brazil, are two biggest producers of soy. Yes, it increases the rural income, by does is it really a sustainable production practices?
So, here is an agriculture without animals, the plant based diet, which supposed to be life affirming and ethically righteous. First, take a piece of land from somebody else, because the history of agriculture is the history of imperialism. Next, burn or bulldoze every life out of it, trees, grass, wetlands. That includes all animals great and small, including wolves, mice, locusts, etc. Now, plant your own annual monocrops. Your grains and beans will survive at first, living off the organic matter created by the now-dead forest. But like any other starving beast, the soil will eats up its reserves, until nothing left, no organic matter, no biological activity left. As your yield begins to dwindle, you now got two options. Take another piece of land and starts over again, or apply some fertilizer. Since 'moral vegetarian' ethical way of farming are not suppose to use any animal product, we have to rule out manure which contains bone or blood meal. So, you supply nitrogen from fossil fuel. As we can't produce fossil fuel ourselves, this production is an ecological nightmare. When oil and gas run out, what will happen then? How about phosphorus from the rocks and potassium from the wood ashes?
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