When you remove the animal and its bones (consume) overtime minerals are removed. Eventually the land and animals will suffer. There is no paying Paul without robbing Peter.
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Not exactly, that's not how an open ecosystem works. In this case, most farmers are just shitty farmers operating on subsidized inputs.
If the soil is healthy then the sheer amount of minerals lost is mined from the underlying soil horizons via the release of organic acids (mostly from soil fungi). Only dead or dying soils (caused by mostly conventional agriculture) lose minerals permanently. Unless biology is brought back in.