Go Vegan? No, Go Away. Please come back when you’ve learned something about human history, about human physiology and nutrition, about the degradation to the environment caused by tearing up and destroying the soil for plant crops. I have no issue if you and others choose not to consume animals for food. Your choice. But your arguments about the superiority of adopting an all-plant diet are way off base.

May I suggest you start by reading a recent history, The Worst Hard Time, about the “Dirty 30s” dust storms and draught, caused by plowing up the ancient grass plains and planting wheat? It’s not an “eat meat or plants” book, but an intense look at how, in just a few short generations, humans destroyed a perfect and ancient balanced ecosystem of deeply rooted grasses and foraging bison (that had perfectly supported Native Americans); depleted the soils of several states (many of these storms dumped as much as 350 million tons of topsoil all over the eastern states and into the Atlantic Ocean – the worst of the storms went on for about a decade); nearly drained one of the world’s largest underground aquifers; and perpetuated the boom-and-bust economic devastation that is inherent with commodity crops.

Then learn something about wildlife habitat degradation from
cropping, the random killing of wild animals during the cultivation harvesting of plant foods, the intensive use of fuel and petrochemicals to create higher yields to feed the growing “plant-based diet” agenda. I highly recommend any of Joel Salatin’s books, but Holy Cow and Hog Heaven is particularly good.

After that learn how agriculture dramatically changed human existence in nature – creating a population explosion that continues today, cycles of famine and massive starvation, degraded health, inequality in power and wealth, and unsustainable attempts to control nature. However, nature will have the last laugh. It always does.

Sunshine + pasture raised animals = energy-efficient, clean, natural, healthy, and physiologically correct food for humans.

Plant crops, unless done in a biodynamic, polycultural diversified small farm system that mimics nature instead of subverting it, is disastrous on numerous levels.

I mean, what does it take to convince you vegans that human’s best chance at survival hinges on adopting a diet based on pasture raised animals foods that are raised *with* nature instead of polluting and destroying nature with artificial crop systems?

And as far as this Prop2 piece… it’s not about “cuteness” – it’s not even about giving a damn chicken a bigger piece of paper to stand on – Prop2 just delays confronting the issue. The issue of ending all of it… About recognizing that there is no justification to eating meat.

Your meat product and meat consumption is riddled with no-no’s…

Negatives concerning animal murder, environmental impacts, water

contamination, deforestation, wasteful use of resources, world

hunger, mono-cropping, plant and animal extinctions, zootonic and human pathological diseases. I’m mean really… what does it take to convince you people that man’s best chance of survival hinges on adopting a plant based diet?

It is consistent with efficient use of water, land and fuel. It is consistent with feeding 6 times more people a healthier diet… And it is certainly consistent in our ethics towards animals. Our ethics (and society) says to be kind to animals. To human animals, to dog animals, horse animals, to pig animals, chicken, cat and cow animals. Accepting any other creed is to perputate “speciesism” – a variation of the “racism” that existed 200 years ago.

Go Vegan.

Great post, and very good timing Chris.