The Savory Method - Revision history

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	The ~~AMP (Adaptive Multi-Paddock) Grazing~~ Method is a system of intensive cattle ranching developed by [[Cecil_Rhodes\|Rhodesian]] counterinsurgency expert, Captain [[Allan Savory]].		The Savory Method is a system of intensive cattle ranching developed by [[Cecil_Rhodes\|Rhodesian]] counterinsurgency expert, Captain [[Allan Savory]].

	It has been widely promoted in the last decade by the [[Savory Institute]] in coordination with Big Ag and Big Oil companies as a climate solution and '''the only''' climate solution. It is neither - its ecosocial foundations have been rigorously and comprehensively discredited.		It has been widely promoted in the last decade by the [[Savory Institute]] in coordination with Big Ag and Big Oil companies as a climate solution and '''the only''' climate solution. It is neither - its ecosocial foundations have been rigorously and comprehensively discredited.

	In terms of Climate Science, implementing Savory's method of intensive ranching increases net greenhouse gas emissions on both a 100-year and 20-year timeframe, even according to studies produced by its leading advocates, practitioners, and financial backers. Denials, ~~Distortions~~, and ~~Omissions~~ are found where the matter of Methane and Nitrous Oxide emissions is raised - the two main emissions ~~of livestock~~ which make cattle ~~ranching~~ one of the largest contributors to global heating ~~and~~ climate collapse.		In terms of Climate Science, implementing Savory's method of intensive cattle ranching increases net greenhouse gas emissions on both a 100-year and 20-year timeframe, even according to studies produced by its leading advocates, practitioners, and financial backers. Denials, distortions, and omissions are found where the matter of Methane and Nitrous Oxide emissions is raised - the two main emissions which help make big cattle one of the largest contributors to global heating, climate collapse, and the [[sixth mass extinction]].

			Although the Savory Method is frequently, and often deliberately conflated with "regenerative grazing," "holistic grazing," and "rotational grazing" more broadly, there are many grazing systems and techniques which ARE actually regenerative and do not rely on cowboy mythology or large cattle monocultures.

			See, for example, over 5000 years of Indigenous rotational grazing [[Biochar#Great_Plains\|stewarded regeneratively]] with the [[Pte Oyate]] across the Great Plains of Turtle Island.

	= Definition =		= Definition =

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	=== Reductionist Thinking ===		=== Reductionist Thinking ===

	Furthermore, the Savory Method is based on reductionist and mechanistic thinking, managing land holistically only relative to supporting intensive (cattle) grazing. Adaptive multi-paddock grazing, by definition, functions by reducing a whole grassland into parts which are then rotationally managed through the mechanism of mobile fencing. Such a paradigm of mechanistic and reductionist thinking is how [[Dr Vandana Shiva]] defines a Monoculture of the Mind:		Furthermore, the Savory Method is based on reductionist and mechanistic thinking, managing land holistically only relative to supporting intensive (cattle) grazing. Adaptive multi-paddock grazing, by definition, functions by reducing a whole grassland into parts which are then rotationally managed through the mechanism of mobile fencing. Such a paradigm of mechanistic and reductionist thinking is how [[Dr. Vandana Shiva]] defines a Monoculture of the Mind:

	<blockquote> "A Monoculture of the Mind imposes one way of knowing - reductionist and mechanistic - on a world with a diversity and plurality of knowledge systems, These knowledge systems include the knowledge and expertise that come from practice, experience, and working with nature as a partner."<ref>Who Really Feeds The World? Vandana Shiva, p. 43</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote> "A Monoculture of the Mind imposes one way of knowing - reductionist and mechanistic - on a world with a diversity and plurality of knowledge systems, These knowledge systems include the knowledge and expertise that come from practice, experience, and working with nature as a partner."<ref>Who Really Feeds The World? Vandana Shiva, p. 43</ref></blockquote>

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Ecocidal Imbalance

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	[[File:Mammalian Imbalance.jpeg\|thumb\|Visualization of 2018 study in The Guardian.]]		[[File:Mammalian Imbalance.jpeg\|thumb\|Visualization of 2018 study in The Guardian.]]

	Due to livestock intensification (above all of cattle), and the mass killing of ~85% of wild mammals, the biomass of livestock mammals currently outweighs the biomass of wild mammals by 15-1, and accounts for 60% of all mammalian biomass. Cattle make up the majority of this, and have historically been a significant driver of biodiversity-destroying [[~~defortestation~~]]. The industrial breeding of cattle accelerates, rather than rectifying, this planetary ecocidal imbalance.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study</ref><ref>https://www.ecowatch.com/biomass-humans-animals-2571413930.html</ref>		Due to livestock intensification (above all of cattle), and the mass killing of ~85% of wild mammals, the biomass of livestock mammals currently outweighs the biomass of wild mammals by 15-1, and accounts for 60% of all mammalian biomass. Cattle make up the majority of this, and have historically been a significant driver of biodiversity-destroying [[deforestation]]. The industrial breeding of cattle accelerates, rather than rectifying, this planetary ecocidal imbalance.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/21/human-race-just-001-of-all-life-but-has-destroyed-over-80-of-wild-mammals-study</ref><ref>https://www.ecowatch.com/biomass-humans-animals-2571413930.html</ref>

	=== 1980's Cattle Intensification ===		=== 1980's Cattle Intensification ===

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	* It belongs to a category of grazing methods which include other forms of '''[[rotational grazing]]''' that are also '''time controlled grazing''' and '''short-duration grazing.''' However, other systems of rotational grazing - such as those practiced by Indigenous pastoralists and hunters for millennia - differ in many key respects.		* It belongs to a category of grazing methods which include other forms of '''[[rotational grazing]]''' that are also '''time controlled grazing''' and '''short-duration grazing.''' However, other systems of rotational grazing - such as those practiced by Indigenous pastoralists and hunters for millennia - differ in many key respects.

	* While sometimes referred to as [[regenerative grazing]], holistic management, and holistic resource management, its regenerative and holistic ~~credibility is highly contested~~.		* While sometimes referred to as [[regenerative grazing]], holistic management, and holistic resource management, its regenerative and holistic credentials have been thoroughly discredited.

	* As the method developed by Allan Savory, it ~~may be~~ referred to as the Savory Method, or the Savory Grazing Method.		* As the method developed by [[Allan Savory]], it is often referred to as the Savory Method, and was first called the "Savory Grazing Method" by Allan Savory and Sid Goodloe in 1969.

	== Theoretical ==		== Theoretical ==

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	numerous enough to generate any "herd effect" that even comes close to that of the buffalo on the Great Plains. The vegetative response of areas such as Audubon's research Ranch to the banning of cattle is a further indication that many of the native plants did not evolve in the presence of large herbivores, and do not benefit from the impacts of such grazing today.		numerous enough to generate any "herd effect" that even comes close to that of the buffalo on the Great Plains. The vegetative response of areas such as Audubon's research Ranch to the banning of cattle is a further indication that many of the native plants did not evolve in the presence of large herbivores, and do not benefit from the impacts of such grazing today.

	The weight of all available scientific evidence regarding livestock grazing in an arid environment - such as today's Southwest - shows that grazing is far		The weight of all available scientific evidence regarding livestock grazing in an arid environment - such as today's Southwest - shows that grazing is far from benign. This is a boom and bust land. Native species are adapted to wait out the extremes of heat and aridity and take full advantage of the periods of heavy rains. The land is simply not capable of furnishing a steady state of resource withdrawal, such as the 10,000 pounds of plants consumed each year by one cow.<ref>Foreman, Dave, et al., eds., Earth First! 7, no. 8 (23 September 1987). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. https://www.environmentandsociety.org/sites/default/files/key_docs/rcc00098005-7-8_2.pdf; "Free Our Public Lands!" by Lynn Jacobs, p. 20-23</ref></blockquote>
	from benign. This is a boom and bust land. Native species are adapted to wait out the extremes of heat and aridity and take full advantage of the periods of heavy rains. The land is simply not capable of furnishing a steady state of resource withdrawal, such as the 10,000 pounds of plants consumed each year by one cow.<ref>Foreman, Dave, et al., eds., Earth First! 7, no. 8 (23 September 1987). Republished by the Environment & Society Portal, Multimedia Library. https://www.environmentandsociety.org/sites/default/files/key_docs/rcc00098005-7-8_2.pdf; "Free Our Public Lands!" by Lynn Jacobs, p. 20-23</ref></blockquote>

	= Response to Critiques =		= Response to Critiques =

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	The AMP (Adaptive Multi-Paddock) Grazing Method is a system of intensive cattle ranching developed by Rhodesian counterinsurgency expert, Captain [[Allan Savory]].		The AMP (Adaptive Multi-Paddock) Grazing Method is a system of intensive cattle ranching developed by [[Cecil_Rhodes\|Rhodesian]] counterinsurgency expert, Captain [[Allan Savory]].

	It has been widely promoted in the last decade by the [[Savory Institute]] in coordination with Big Ag and Big Oil companies as a climate solution and '''the only''' climate solution. It is neither - its ecosocial foundations have been rigorously and comprehensively discredited.		It has been widely promoted in the last decade by the [[Savory Institute]] in coordination with Big Ag and Big Oil companies as a climate solution and '''the only''' climate solution. It is neither - its ecosocial foundations have been rigorously and comprehensively discredited.

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	The AMP (Adaptive Multi-Paddock) Grazing Method is a system of intensive cattle ranching developed by Rhodesian counterinsurgency expert [[Allan Savory]].		The AMP (Adaptive Multi-Paddock) Grazing Method is a system of intensive cattle ranching developed by Rhodesian counterinsurgency expert, Captain [[Allan Savory]].

	It has been widely promoted in the last decade by the [[Savory Institute]] in coordination with Big Ag and Big Oil companies as a climate solution and '''the only''' climate solution. It is neither - its ecosocial foundations have been rigorously and comprehensively discredited.		It has been widely promoted in the last decade by the [[Savory Institute]] in coordination with Big Ag and Big Oil companies as a climate solution and '''the only''' climate solution. It is neither - its ecosocial foundations have been rigorously and comprehensively discredited.

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Theoretical

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	In a speech for the [[Mulloon Institute]], Savory describes how he "drew heavily on the theory of [[General Jan Smuts]], Prime Minister of Apartheid [[South Africa]] who in 1926 wrote 'Holism and Evolution'" to form his theoretical framework of holistic management. Within this framework, Savory claims that despite having "no expertise in climate change," he "solved the problem by using 300 years of European military experience of planning in immediate battlefield situations. What they had worked out for complicated fast changing situations, I simply adapted and developed as a grazing planning process."<ref>https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/</ref>		In a speech for the [[Mulloon Institute]], Savory describes how he "drew heavily on the theory of [[General Jan Smuts]], Prime Minister of Apartheid [[South Africa]] who in 1926 wrote 'Holism and Evolution'" to form his theoretical framework of holistic management. Within this framework, Savory claims that despite having "no expertise in climate change," he "solved the problem by using 300 years of European military experience of planning in immediate battlefield situations. What they had worked out for complicated fast changing situations, I simply adapted and developed as a grazing planning process."<ref>https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/</ref>

			Regarding organic gardening/agriculture and chemical pesticides:

	<blockquote>Nothing should be included in any holistic context that is a prejudice against any future action. We would not say, for example, organic. Why? Because that’s a prejudice against chemicals, and that prejudice should be kept out of the context.<ref>https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/greening-the-desert-holistic-management-in-the-era-of-climate-change/</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Nothing should be included in any holistic context that is a prejudice against any future action. We would not say, for example, organic. Why? Because that’s a prejudice against chemicals, and that prejudice should be kept out of the context.<ref>https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/greening-the-desert-holistic-management-in-the-era-of-climate-change/</ref></blockquote>

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	== Theoretical ==		== Theoretical ==

	In a speech for the [[Mulloon Institute]], Savory describes how he "drew heavily on the theory of [[General Jan Smuts]], Prime Minister of [[South Africa]] who in 1926 wrote 'Holism and Evolution'" to form his theoretical framework of holistic management. Within this framework, Savory claims that despite having "no expertise in climate change," he "solved the problem by using 300 years of European military experience of planning in immediate battlefield situations. What they had worked out for complicated fast changing situations, I simply adapted and developed as a grazing planning process."<ref>https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/</ref>		In a speech for the [[Mulloon Institute]], Savory describes how he "drew heavily on the theory of [[General Jan Smuts]], Prime Minister of Apartheid [[South Africa]] who in 1926 wrote 'Holism and Evolution'" to form his theoretical framework of holistic management. Within this framework, Savory claims that despite having "no expertise in climate change," he "solved the problem by using 300 years of European military experience of planning in immediate battlefield situations. What they had worked out for complicated fast changing situations, I simply adapted and developed as a grazing planning process."<ref>https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/</ref>

			<blockquote>Nothing should be included in any holistic context that is a prejudice against any future action. We would not say, for example, organic. Why? Because that’s a prejudice against chemicals, and that prejudice should be kept out of the context.<ref>https://centerforneweconomics.org/publications/greening-the-desert-holistic-management-in-the-era-of-climate-change/</ref></blockquote>

	= Critical Summary =		= Critical Summary =

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	== Theoretical ==		== Theoretical ==

	In a speech for the [[Mulloon Institute]], Savory describes how he "drew heavily on the theory of [[General Jan Smuts]], Prime Minister of [[South Africa]] who in 1926 wrote 'Holism and Evolution'" to form his theoretical framework of holistic management." Within this framework, he claims that despite having "no expertise in climate change," he "solved the problem by using 300 years of European military experience of planning in immediate battlefield situations. What they had worked out for complicated fast changing situations, I simply adapted and developed as a grazing planning process."<ref>https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/</ref>		In a speech for the [[Mulloon Institute]], Savory describes how he "drew heavily on the theory of [[General Jan Smuts]], Prime Minister of [[South Africa]] who in 1926 wrote 'Holism and Evolution'" to form his theoretical framework of holistic management. Within this framework, Savory claims that despite having "no expertise in climate change," he "solved the problem by using 300 years of European military experience of planning in immediate battlefield situations. What they had worked out for complicated fast changing situations, I simply adapted and developed as a grazing planning process."<ref>https://savory.global/tony-coote-memorial-lecture/</ref>

	= Critical Summary =		= Critical Summary =