By rejecting traditional grazing and maintaining trees and wildlife habitats alongside pasture, farmers are turning their land carbon positive. But will it be enough?
Rewilding in the sense of letting nature grow back is fine. I’m referring to the the form of cattle ranching that was pushed by a literal baroness in England. The science of it was very sketchy, they took tons of public funds, and what really irked me was that the baron/husband was a literal Rhodesia colonist. The biggest proponent of cattle rewilding is a mega colonist.
I’d be open to other forms of “rewilding”. But the only science I’ve seen with rewilding and cattle has been really glossy but non rigorous studies done by agricultural facilities (i.e. paid by big ag in their home countries).
Thought it sounded like the Savory thing. Yes, apparently his claims and experimental results have not been backed up or (EDIT: consistently) replicated by rangeland scientists and he’s an oldschool Rhodesia army officer who still owns a big plot in Zimbabwe, lmao
What’s your criticisms of rewilding?
Rewilding in the sense of letting nature grow back is fine. I’m referring to the the form of cattle ranching that was pushed by a literal baroness in England. The science of it was very sketchy, they took tons of public funds, and what really irked me was that the baron/husband was a literal Rhodesia colonist. The biggest proponent of cattle rewilding is a mega colonist.
I’d be open to other forms of “rewilding”. But the only science I’ve seen with rewilding and cattle has been really glossy but non rigorous studies done by agricultural facilities (i.e. paid by big ag in their home countries).
Thought it sounded like the Savory thing. Yes, apparently his claims and experimental results have not been backed up or (EDIT: consistently) replicated by rangeland scientists and he’s an oldschool Rhodesia army officer who still owns a big plot in Zimbabwe, lmao
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/big-agriculture-funding-regenerative-ranching-amp-grazing-soil-carbon
I hold a LOT of hate for Savory. I don’t get how someone so obviously evil still gets to go to TED talks and pretend that he’s saving the world.
Also George Monbiot has a better criticism of cattle rewilding than I could do.