Eat more beef to save the planet

[Elliot Waves]

Interesting video on how to green dead soil and improve the environment. I can go for some more BBQ Ribs and Rib Eye Steaks..

[Backseat Driver]

1. We ate beef tonight - the tiniest pieces into Thai Chili stir fry!

and more for tomorrow. No short ribs or grilled steaks for us. Grilling is not permitted, and short-ribs are too much $$--those must necessarily better go toward the A/C bill, gasoline, and pet care.

[Elliot Waves]

2. Thai Chili stir fry sounds tasty

I often use small bits of beef or pork to make a small tamale or enchilada casserole in a glass bread loaf pan but Thai Chili stir fry sounds good too.

[Elliot Waves]

3. I think the examples of transformed land shown in this video

are very impressive. Something that should definitely be done more in my opinion.

[hunter]

4. That's not representative of the beef you get from your local supermarket or fast food place.

If all beef was raised with some sensitivity to the environment and the welfare of the cows there wouldn't be enough for everyone -- the price of a pound of hamburger or a gallon of milk would skyrocket.

That might not be a bad thing.

As it is, Savory's ideas are being promoted as propaganda, much like plastic recycling is, to make people feel less guilty about buying products that are harmful to the natural environment without any significant changes to business as usual.

[Backseat Driver]

5. Is this the same as "regenerative farming" to improve organics in soil

micro-environments and reduce wind blown reduction of topsoil with natural native cover crops? Perhaps it's already too late? - despairing of climate change on Earth and in its atmosphere ppb of carbon/methane and pollutants. I don't think we've got many more decades of our disregard left.

Good Gawd - shame on him forever for the culling of those elephants!

[hunter]

6. Here's a "regenerative rancher" in the U.S.A.

Is it possible to save the planet by eating a steak? Controversial, to be sure, given the massive amounts of the global-warming methane gas produced by cattle. The idea that cattle could have an integral role in decreasing carbon dioxide in the air seems to go against everything we have been hearing lately. But ask a regenerative rancher, and they will tell you otherwise. It turns out, it’s all about growing soil. And one such soil farmer has taken up residence at the historic EE-DA-HO ranch in Bellevue, Idaho.

Werner Morawitz has had quite an unlikely path to becoming a grower of soil. But it seems that for Werner, all roads have led to EE-DA-HO. A convergence of his life’s work in environmental science, finance, and a desire to create a sustainable environmental model locally and beyond has manifested itself in his current work on the ranch.

--more--

https://www.biglifemag.com/the-making-of-a-regenerative-rancher/

Same caveats as my post above. Professional greenwashers extraordinaire, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins, are both mentioned in this article. ( I had some encounters with both of them in my angry idealistic bridge-burning youth. )

I'm still looking forward to a future when the most popular fast food burgers are made without meat.

I'm not confident free markets can solve our most pressing environmental problems.

[NickB79]

7. That's a good way of thinking about it

Growing soil, with a bit of beef as a byproduct. Not at all like a typical beef farm.