Genesis 1:29
"Then God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.’”
Food was never meant to harm us.
It was meant to nourish our bodies, connect us to the land, and remind us of our Creator.
God’s design was beautifully simple and good: food grown from healthy soil, tended with care, and eaten in its season.
But over time, we’ve strayed from this design.
The Rise of — and the Fall of Stewardship
Over the past century, industrial agriculture has transformed farming from local stewardship into mass production.
- Crops are planted in endless monocultures.
- Soils are drenched in chemicals like glyphosate.
- Fields are harvested from soil that’s become lifeless, stripped of the God-given nutrients meant to sustain us.
The goal has become maximum yield at minimum cost — no matter what it does to the land or our health.
And the damage doesn’t stop with the soil.
The Confinement of God’s Creatures
Industrial agriculture also confines billions of animals in conditions completely opposite of how God created them to live:
- Chickens are crammed by the tens of thousands into windowless barns, standing shoulder-to-shoulder on waste-soaked litter, never seeing sunlight or touching grass.
- Pigs are packed into concrete buildings, unable to root or roam, with many mothers locked in tiny gestation crates where they cannot even turn around.
- Cattle are funneled into crowded feedlots, standing in their own manure and fed a diet of grain and byproducts their bodies were never designed to digest.
Proverbs 12:10
“Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but the mercy of the wicked is cruel.”
There is nothing righteous about treating living creatures as production units. This system pushes animals — and the land — beyond their God-given design, producing cheap meat at a steep spiritual and physical cost.
This confinement-based system produces massive amounts of toxic waste, polluting rivers and groundwater. The animals are routinely given antibiotics just to survive these stressful environments, contributing to the global crisis of antibiotic resistance.
Meanwhile, their grain-based diets — grown on chemical-soaked fields — are often laced with residues of and other pesticides, which have been linked to hormone disruption, gut health issues, and even cancer.
Genesis 2:15
“The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.”
But instead of keeping the land, industrial agriculture is stripping it bare.
Returning to God’s Way of Eating
So how do we return to the way God intended for us to eat?
We start by choosing food raised in alignment with God’s design — food that comes from living soil, tended with care, and raised with respect for the creatures God created.
The internet definition of Regenerative Agriculture is "the process of restoring degraded soils using management practices (e.g., adaptive grazing, no-till planting, no or limited use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizer, etc.) based on ecological principles."
In summary, that’s the practice of:
- Building healthy soil through rotational grazing and natural fertilization
- Raising animals on open pasture where they can live as God created them to
- Never using chemical herbicides, pesticides, or synthetic fertilizers
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.” — Psalm 24:1
When we return to God’s way of eating, we don’t just heal our bodies — we begin to heal the land, and we glorify the One who made it all.
Every meal is an opportunity to glorify God, not just with words but with our choices.
When you choose food raised in harmony with creation, you are:
- Restoring the land God entrusted to us
- Honoring the life of His creatures
- Nourishing your family with clean, wholesome food
If you’re ready to step away from the broken system of industrial agriculture and return to eating as God designed find a local farmer and don't rely on Big Ag to heal you.
1 Corinthians 10:31
"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."