Grass-Fed Beef Won’t Die For Our Sins
A man named Allan Savory gave a TED talk that changed the course of my life.
In this talk, he speaks in vivid terms about the environmental disaster of desertification (the process of arable land turning to desert because of drought, deforestation, etc.), and the counterintuitive miracle of using livestock, which are often blamed for the agricultural practices that lead to desertification, to reverse it.
I ate his talk up and bought his book, “Holistic Management.” At the time I was still a software engineer living in Washington, D.C., looking to make the leap from the tech industry to sustainable agriculture — bison, in particular. Savory, along with handful of other proponents of managed grazing like Allan Nation, Joel Salatin, and Allen Williams, fed my confirmation bias about the wonderful potential of grass-fed herbivores that would not only let me eat all the beef I could ever want, but would also save the planet in the process.
It’s Not the Cow, It’s the How
Between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez advocating good riddance to “farting cows,” to the EAT-Lancet commission report publishing a “Healthy Reference Diet”…
