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According to [[Allan Savory]], scientific evidence against his methods is irrelevant because [[holistic management]] "cannot be peer-reviewed." He has made this argument several times, perhaps most recently on Twitter in March of 2021<ref>https://twitter.com/allanrsavory/status/1368586780790906885?s=21</ref> in response to scientific evidence showing that the beef supply [[White Oak Pastures]] provides for [[General Mills]] was heavily greenwashed. <ref>https://plantbaseddata.medium.com/the-failed-attempt-to-greenwash-beef-7dfca9d74333</ref> White Oak Pastures is a "frontier founder" of the [[Savory Institute#Land_to_Market|Savory Institute]] Land to Market program, which falsely advertised WOP's products as "carbon-negative beef."<ref>https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/climatecollaborative/mailings/1633/attachments/original/PPT-FINAL-Regenerative_Mapping-min_compressed.pdf?1579205603; p. 41</ref>
According to [[Allan Savory]], scientific evidence against his methods is irrelevant because holistic management "cannot be peer-reviewed." He has made this argument several times, perhaps most recently on Twitter in March of 2021<ref>https://twitter.com/allanrsavory/status/1368586780790906885?s=21</ref> in response to scientific evidence showing that the beef supply [[White Oak Pastures]] provides for [[General Mills]] was heavily greenwashed. <ref>https://plantbaseddata.medium.com/the-failed-attempt-to-greenwash-beef-7dfca9d74333</ref> White Oak Pastures is a "frontier founder" of the [[Savory Institute#Land_to_Market|Savory Institute]] Land to Market program, which falsely advertised WOP's products as "carbon-negative beef."<ref>https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/climatecollaborative/mailings/1633/attachments/original/PPT-FINAL-Regenerative_Mapping-min_compressed.pdf?1579205603; p. 41</ref>

Revision as of 18:13, 18 February 2023

A system of intensive cattle ranching developed by Allan Savory, also known as or categorized under these names:

  • the Savory Method
  • rotational grazing
  • multi-paddock adaptive grazing
  • regenerative grazing

Critiques

"The Regenerative Ranching racket": <https://www.science20.com/spencer_roberts/the_regenerative_ranching_racket-255623>

Re: GHG emissions, soil health, hoof action, biodiversity: <https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijbd/2014/163431/>

Re: General Mills & White Oak Pastures: <https://plantbaseddata.medium.com/the-failed-attempt-to-greenwash-beef-7dfca9d74333> <https://twitter.com/NicholasDCarter/status/1362341002946748421> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjQfn-HR6g>

Underestimation of emissions from extensive/intensive grazing: <https://www.issuelab.org/resources/36458/36458.pdf>

Re: 'discounting' Methane from cattle: <https://twitter.com/NicholasDCarter/status/1335967274247876609?s=20> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aEKVErYpvXM7Nxx5xBkCI1POi1xomTD9/view>

Response to Critiques

According to Allan Savory, scientific evidence against his methods is irrelevant because holistic management "cannot be peer-reviewed." He has made this argument several times, perhaps most recently on Twitter in March of 2021[1] in response to scientific evidence showing that the beef supply White Oak Pastures provides for General Mills was heavily greenwashed. [2] White Oak Pastures is a "frontier founder" of the Savory Institute Land to Market program, which falsely advertised WOP's products as "carbon-negative beef."[3]