How Food is Damaging the Environment and Ways to Fix It

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In most cases, consuming pastured raised beef is one of the worst things you can do for the planet. Food cultivation, of which the by far dominating sector is animal agriculture, is the main driver of:

• Deforestation
• Habitat loss
• Wild life loss
• Species extinction
• Fresh water usage
• Soil erosion

It is also one of the main drivers of:

• Climate destabilization
• River and air pollution

 

Because animal agriculture is the main consumer of fertile land, it is depriving us of the single most essential resource we have to stabilize the earth system. And it is not merely occupying the land, it is actively destroying it. The land we require for the cultivation and preservation of ecosystems that make up the very homeostatic systems which are responsible for maintaining the possibility of life on this planet, in the form it currently exists.

 

Furthermore, the health of individuals and several auto-immune disorders are increasingly found to be correlated to the health of the human gut micro-biome. Soil is what provides us with the nutrition and bacterial species that are necessary to maintain a healthy gut micro-biome, and it's erosion is linked to the weakening of micro-biomes of individuals who live in corresponding societies.

Edited February 14, 2023 by Scholar