Zero Carb Keto: Carnivory and Sustainability

Zero Carb Keto

Carnivory and Sustainability

I am realizing with the more and more research that I do, how important topsoil is. It is extremely precious and takes a lot of time to be produced, from 100 to over 500 years for just one inch of topsoil. And it can be so easily destroyed.

A couple decades ago, I had been vegan for about seven years. It actually seemed wrong nutritionally to me even then in my youth, but I was persuaded to do it because of my environmentalism. I had heard that veganism was less of a strain on the environment.

However, I have learned much more since then! The key to nourishing and maintaining the earth's precious topsoil is not through tillage of grains and vegetable crops. It is through allowing trees and native grasslands to flourish, not breaking the soil by tilling. Even more importantly, allowing ruminant animals and small wild game and wild birds to graze and fertilize the soil, and be moved to new areas by the natural effect of predators. Allowing wild plants to grow to provide food for pollinators.

I think about how the native peoples around the world lived for tens of thousands of years in harmony with the earth. Yet now modern humankind is devastating the earth at an exponential rate, and it seems almost impossible to save now. The mindset has completely changed from thinking of your descendants seven generations from now, to not thinking beyond grabbing a plastic bag of carbs and a soft drink because one is constantly "hangry". How have we gotten to this point? And how can we think it is OK to live like this?

I see these giant interstate road projects, with destruction of the topsoil in huge swaths. Or suburban developments, scraping away acres of priceless topsoil. Then there is mining, for metals, minerals, fossil fuels. And all the agricultural tilling and chemical use. All of this destroys topsoil. We are creating deserts at a rate which is truly alarming!

I believe that getting back to our natural diet, wild meats and fish, is the answer. Refusing plastics, limiting our breaking of the earth for any reason, be it metals, minerals, fossil fuels, roads, subdivisions, agriculture.

One inch of topsoil takes 100 to over 500 years to be created. Most of us will never even live that long. We must be better stewards of this resource. We must show respect for the earth and our part in it.