Some things to add to this.
For those saying go back to wild life how are you going to regulate poplulations and grazing patterns. By natural means it means bringing back predators in droves which makes it a less efficient as a food producer. Human control possibly better but you still need to regulate grazing or you will do environmental damage too.
Any ruminant's biggest advantage is they take a crop that we cannot utilize and convert it to one that we can.
Most of the assumptions on
cattle are far from the truth. If you look at the cowspiracy
video for example it assumes all cows are raised in the worst possible way, that all
water that hits the ground can be directly used for human benefit, that the
land is destroyed for other uses. It ignores the fact that most of the water for grazing situations is going into the ground and unless the area is paved over will not be available for direct human use, and that ranchers don't want to spend money making
hay if they can simply graze. It also ignores the fact that much of that land does not have better uses and that used properly for grazing it stores
carbon It also ignores the benefits derived. For example in my area irrigation increases greatly the carrying capacity of this area for wild life.
Suggest taking modern soils sciences classes first on soil carbon building. Then look at Savory's info on grazing. Will we be better off eliminating meat? If Savory is even partially right I would argue
the answer is no. Do we need to change what is best practices? Most certainly yes. It might look something like this. Ruminats are grazed thru the late spring and into late fall. Now the intensive control to reach Savory's grazing will wreck most first world ranches because the cost in labor is to high. But we might solve that with technology. Do it right and ranching becomes a no fossils fuels harvesting machine that produces both food and fuel.
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