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Rewilding: reintroducing missing plants and animals in the wild, stepping back, and letting nature take over. While much of pastureland used for grazing animals cannot be used to grow crops,…

Animals do not create nitrates. Plants do. Instead of manure, rotational or simultaneous plant cropping can fertilize the soil. Documented in ancient Greek, Chinese, Indian, and Native American texts. Photo:…

There is no way out of this. Those who claim that “regenerative” or “holistic” ranching mimics nature deceive themselves. It relies on fencing, while in nature wild herbivores roam freely, often across…

It takes a lot of water to create one pound of animal product. For example it takes 53 gallons of water needed to make a quarter pound hamburger patty.

The UN forecasts that by 2050 feeding the world will require a 20% expansion in agriculture’s global water use. But water use is already maxed out in many places, aquifers are…

Rivers and water bodies near animal factory farms have 4-33 times higher concentration of E. Coli and nitrates, like the pink waste water lagoon near a factory farm.

Excess nitrates from factory animal farms drains off into coastal waters creating massive dead zones. Globally there are about 400+ dead zones near the coasts where waste waters collect.

Manure releases ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide, and other organic volatile compounds. People living near animal factory farms experienced eye irritation, difficulty breathing, increased heart rate, and other acute physical symptoms.

80% of antibiotics in the US are fed to animals so that they can withstand the filthy conditions in which they are raised. This is also linked to E. Coli…

In USA, livestock farming creates 50 times to 130 times more waste than its human population does. According to US General Accounting Office, USA produces roughly 5 tons of animal…