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Dear Green Party:

One of your holiday tips reads:

6) Organic Vegan Dinner! Give a gift of a locally grown organic vegan dinner either at your favorite local haunt or you prepare it. The lower we eat on the food chain the healthier the environment.

This is a standard misunderstanding on the left. First, it is impossible to farm sustainably without animals inputs. Second, vegan food does not grow where I live--New England. What grows here is cows (and venison). Animals integrated into perennial polycultures, using only ambient sun and rain, is the *only* way to protect and build topsoil.

Contrast this to growing annual monocrops--the plant-based grains touted by the vegans. Growing annual monocrops destroys the soil. This is hwat humans have been doing for 10,000 years, and we are now oout of soil. Without soil there is no life. Humans have so destroyed the world by agriculture that if it wasn't for nitrogen from cheap fossil fuel, the human population would long ago have crashed.

What the vegans are insisting is that essentially we all must be dependent on the American midwest, which is being degraded into desert by annual monocrops. What will we eat when the last particle of soil has turned to dust and the last drop of oil has left the ground?

I know what I'll be eating--the cows and birds that eat the pasture and browse on my farm. It's in my backyard, and a thousand years from now, the only thing different will be a few *more* inches of topsoil.

You should be encouraging people to eat locally from pasture-based farms that build topsoil and use no irrigation and have no need for fossil-fuel based fertilizer, since the animals provide it. That is the food that is sustainable, not annual monocrops that have destroyed the river and prairie ecosystems of the midwest and the world.

Please think about it.

Sincerely, Lierre Keith

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