Is Eating Animals Bad For The Environment?

Regenerative Farming Causes Less Harm Than Veganism

It’s actually really hard to grasp onto the complex reality of what it means to raise and slaughter livestock for consumption. Livestock are animals that we have domesticated for our own use over the last 10,000 years. They wouldn’t exist without our meddling hands.

It’s doubly difficult to understand this idea: Slaughtering one cow raised on a Regenerative Farm can actually reduce the harm suffered by many many other animals.

But it is a truth. It is a truth we need to grasp onto in order to move forward in agriculture.

In a conventional feed-lot livestock farm, the health of all the animals involved suffers, including the humans who run the farm.

Other beings suffer: The soil web of life; the small animals, the large animals, song birds and birds of prey, beetles, spiders, honeybees, earthworms, and on and on and on, into the sunset.

These small itty bitty creatures are really animals. They are as essential, if not more essential, than the larger mammals. The ladybug, tadpole, and garden spider all play a minute, but infinitely expansive, role in the circle of life.