A speaker argues that veganism's three main justifications don't hold up: health benefits are ineffective, livestock are necessary for soil health, and plant agriculture kills more animals than people realize through pesticides and harvesting.
There's three reasons people choose to do the vegan diet. One is health. It doesn't work. One is the environment. As a guy with a regenerative farm in Canada with sheep and pigs and cows and chickens, if you don't have animals, you don't have soil. If you don't have soil, you don't have your stupid kale. And that's just how it works. Kale's gross, by the way. The third reason that we might decide that we want to be vegans is because we want to reduce suffering for animals. When I was in Tibet, learning meditation from the masters, I went to the lama and the monastery on the way to Lhasa, and I said, you tell me. No killing prayer pole. He goes, one death feeds everyone, man. I'm not eating chicken anymore. And if you look at the number of animals that die so that you can have your piece of bread, oh, man. You know what would eat all the wheat? Everything would. So they sterilize the area around farms. You have to. Otherwise the squirrels eat all your almonds. So there's a huge number of deaths in each of those soybeans. That doesn't actually help you nutritionally.
