Why I banned the word sustainability on our farm.

Greetings

I keep asking folk who visit the farm what in the world should we sustain at current levels? No one has yet to name anything. Hence, regeneration is where our focus should be.

If you would rather watch me discussing this issue you can watch my TEDx talk by clicking here.

Human beings are committing species wide suicide and we are using agriculture as the tool to accomplish this. 36 football fields of rain forest are cut down every hour of every day to plant 4 crops (maize, soya, palm oil and sugar), none of which nourish the human being. We lose 300 square kilometres of topsoil every day due to erosion caused by agriculture. There are over 400 dead zones in the world’s oceans directly attributable to the leaching of Nitrogen fertilisers into the rivers. Equal amounts of people are dying of obesity and of starvation. Cancer rates are going parabolic. Male sperm counts are less than half of what they were 35 years ago.

I could go on and on but the point is that there is nothing to sustain. The photo below is of the rainforest being replaced with soya.

Mainstream media and the comedians in government maintain that in order to save the planet we need to have a plant based diet. This is a complete lie. I wrote “The good, the bad and the tragedy of the vegan movement” on this delusion.

I wrote a post here where a colleague and I showed how South Africa could be fed regeneratively.

To appreciate how healthy humans can be eating regenerative food then the book below is for you.

I am going to try and paraphrase this essential book. Dr Price goes on a 10 year journey around the world in the 1920’s and find that as soon as the white man’s food (read vegan/highly processed) is introduced the humans and then society breaks down.

Read the writing in italics below the photos. Pre white man left and post white man right. The white man’s food is the staple of vegans and hospitals and schools namely white bread, canned food, processed food. In other words foods that are not whole. Hence a society that is not whole.

Finally the environmental impact of regenerative agriculture is story that is not properly told. I elaborate here where I explain that if every farm in South Africa sequestered as much Carbon into their soils as we have then South Africa would not only be net zero, we would be a NEGATIVE 2.83 times net zero.

By abandoning sustainability and embracing regenerative agriculture you can increase biodiversity, sequester carbon into your soils, create employment and produce nutrient dense foods.

Angus

11 January 2025