Comments by "J Hutt" (@jhutt8002) on "Bartolomé de las Casas | Changing Your Mind | European History | Extra History" video.

@alexs.5871 Killing a cat or dog is finable only if it's not your property. While it may sound ugly. That is how human society and life in general works. Good person takes care of his/her animals. But we can't start to treat animals like humans, or our society will literally fall apart. Also: Mistreatment of animals IS illegal at least in North Europe regardless of species. You'll get fined and lose right to own animals, if you do so.
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@kakahass8845 You know why meat has been so important for human nutrition ESPECIALLY in northern parts of the world? Because you need outside nutrients, if you farm a same land for decades. Decades. Reason why farming evolved in specific parts of the world (fertile crescent, Egypt, chinese rivers), is because food brought the nutrients. So it was possible to continue inhabiting same parts of the world for centuries. We wouldn't gave any forests left, if we didn't have undedstood how farmung works. Rare people in general public understands it today.
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@alexs.5871 Society can change, but we still have to abide the nature for our sustenance. It's not a choice, but necessity. When you farm a land, you use up the nutrients in the soil. There's only three ways to continue farming. 1) Leave the patch to forest (takes 80 years), and burn new forest to ground for new field. (VERY bad for environment) 2) Rotate edibles and grasses to let the fields rest, and use mined, factory produced industrial fertilizers to revitalize the growth. (Also bad, and need at least 30 % more farmland to account for resting furrows, than our current agriculture) 3) Previous,, but use otherwise useless grassfields for animal fodder, and fertilize with tbeir waste which greatly reduces, the need for industrial fertilizers destructive to environment. As a side extra, animal waste can, and is, also used to produce biofuels, before used as fertilizer. PS wild pigs are almost as destructive to environment as 17th century humans, and cows or sheep can't even survive in nature, but will die suffering and wholly disappear without being cared.
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@kakahass8845 Yes. Nutrients are going to come back either by decades of different vegetation and animal herding, or much faster by purposeful cycling and fertilization People like you are the problem, those who don't understand a thing about farming or production in general. Only consumption.
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@kakahass8845 Yes. You're exactly right. That's why we need domestication: To speed up the farming rotation, increase available farmland to places otherwise inhospitable areas, and to aid in sustenance by transforming non edible vegetation into meat.
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