Monocrop agriculture, particularly plant-based systems, depletes soil nutrients and necessitates the use of phosphorus and nitrogen-based fertilizers.

“negative on the soil we're pulling all the nutrients out and eventually we needed to use these phosphorus-based fertilizers and nitrogen-based fertilizers because the soil got to be so depleted of nutrients so we took some of the most fertile soil on the planet created by animals the same animals that companies like beyond beef impossible burger and all these plant-based pundits want to destroy had created some of the most fertile healthy soil on the planet that we then destroyed by making monocrop agriculture with a totally plant-based system in that soil”