Here is an excerpt from this debate. Personally, I agree with everything here. This is Joel Salatin. If you have environmental or nutritional reasons for becoming vegan/vegetarian I recommend you read his books and watch his videos. Do your homework before taking a stand and assuming that eating animal foods is no good for you from a health perspective or an environmental perspective. Also, please feel free to share your thoughts if you are so inclined or want to share some valuable input or ask me what I think. Eating things with faces is great Number one: affirmative studies, affirmative studies impugning animal farming or omnivorous nutrition must be based on pasture-based data, not chemical, pharmaceutical, concentrated animal feeding operations, like CAFOs. On our farm, the nutrient difference in folate -- just pick one nutrient -- is far more nutritious than factory farmed versions. Factory food has no merit in this debate, and none of the studies will hold water if they use factory food, and youll find that they all do. Number two: Plants are sentient beings. They attack, communicate, respond, and build communities. Their language is chemical. Plants have faces, even though we might not recognize them. The affirmative promotes a segregated view toward life. I promote an integrated view. Number four: Domestic livestock are owned by 60 percent of the worlds poor, primarily because they represent portable wealth to the unlanded poor and nutrition density protected from spoilage and vermin. Number seven: Everything is eaten and being -- is eating and being eaten. If you dont believe that, go lie naked in your flowerbed for three days, and see what gets eaten. Number eight: Humans are the ultimate caretaker species, and the notion that my dog is my uncle is my cat is my child does not indicate an evolutionary newfound state of heightened spiritual cosmic awareness, but rather a profound devolution into ignorance and disconnection to our ecological umbilical. Number nine: Killing and eating are interchangeable. If it is wrong to eat, then it is wrong to kill. Killing without eating is an insult to life and resource. Number ten: Environmental integrity demands certain patterns whether we like them or not. Summary: Every single nook and cranny on the planet is full of animals. Why? Because they convert biomass into soil. From kitchen scraps fed to the homestead chickens to caribou converting lichens to manure, animals create ecological integrity. Humans can’t eat most biomass. The few types we can, like vegetables, require extremely fertile soil. Not one single organic vegetable or produce regimen exists that doesn’t rely on animal or fish manures for fertility. The principle of life requiring death or sacrifice is a most profound spiritual and ecological truth. How we treat the plant and animal in life impart sacredness to the sacrifice. The reason herbivores and seafood form the basis of all diets in antiquity is because these were the only nutrient-rich options that didn’t require tillage and storage.
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