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Veronika Bond's avatar

I wonder whether anyone considers the role of trauma in the decision not to have children.

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Green Fields's avatar

Lots of interesting information here.

Let's not forget the decline in eating naturally produced meat and animal sourced foods, which are vital for health, vibrancy and fertility. The push for eating plants and avoiding good animal sourced foods can easily be seen to be part of this birth gap. A well nourished body is a fertile body, making babies come what may. Bring people off the land, cram them into urban populations and starve them by pushing an unnatural diet - including one full of the toxins, sure, but let's not frget the lack of vital nutrition! That surely has a negative effect on making babies too, as well as teaching those babies that it's a good way to live - a self perpetuating fallacy.

Grass fed ruminant meat and their other products does not make money for the powers who want to be. No inputs on the land, no need for agrimachinery either. No inputs to the animals as they are healthy, no need for supplementary feeding and a healthy human poulation whcih does not take pharma medications. The other side of the coin - eating plants - makes money for them at every step of the way. EVERY STEP.

Go figure.

Rant over.

Thanks for yur work Unbekoming. I love reading your writings, always food for thought.

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