animal grazing has negative impacts on the land

Arguments

• animal grazing causes soil compaction
• animal grazing causes soil acidification
• animal grazing causes erosion and topsoil loss
• animal grazing creates a bias for predominance of nuisance plant and animal species
• grazing animals provide an environment for parasites, which can then spread to humans
• fencing of land for grazing impedes natural animal movements, and affects biosystems
• All of the effects stated in these arguments against animal grazing are increasingly problematic as the number of animals increases, to the point of ecological disaster

Objections

• soil compaction would be eliminated if we use native animals
• Nitrogen in animal feces is a catalyst to assist the breakdown of plant materials; provides organic nutrients and organic matter, and micronutrients for organisms such as fungal mycorrhiza, (which aid plants in absorbing nutrients); in short, it is fertilizer.
• All of the effects stated in the arguments against animal grazing are decreasingly problematic as the number of animals decreases, to a point where they are no greater than in natural ecosystems, in the practices used by nomadic herding cultures

References for the Objections

This article is based on a GNU FDL Vegan Wikia article: Animal_Grazing_has_negative_impacts_on_the_land_used_as_pasture

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