Originally Posted by Ms Arielle

This has been a linger question for a long time. I raise animals for food and work on having a veg garden, and fruit trees...... and struggle with the constant " meat is killing the earth" speil. Traditional animal raising was in harmony with the earth, grazing the animals over large areas, moving on to a new area day after day. Eating shrubbery and grasses that humans cant and wont eat. Moving on to let the area regenerate. Cattle, hogs, chickens kept confined in a building is a new method.

The grazing keeps the grasses eager to grow and pull more carbon out of the air-- forests become carbon collectors, too.....all without tractors, fertilizers, herbacides, fungacides, irrigation water, etc. and perhaps less energy to get the nutrients to market, and home.

The vegetarian vs the LC and the effects on our earth keeps me asking is one better than the other.....or is it HOW the food source is managed...?