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"The Regenerative Ranching racket":
"The Regenerative Ranching racket":
<https://medium.com/@unpopularscience/the-regenerative-ranching-racket-fe6cce917a42>
<https://medium.com/@unpopularscience/the-regenerative-ranching-racket-fe6cce917a42>
"How Big Ag Bankrolled Regenerative Ranching":
<https://jacobin.com/2022/03/big-agriculture-funding-regenerative-ranching-amp-grazing-soil-carbon>


Re: GHG emissions, soil health, hoof action, biodiversity:
Re: GHG emissions, soil health, hoof action, biodiversity:

Revision as of 18:46, 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://medium.com/@unpopularscience/the-regenerative-ranching-racket-fe6cce917a42>

"How Big Ag Bankrolled Regenerative Ranching": <https://jacobin.com/2022/03/big-agriculture-funding-regenerative-ranching-amp-grazing-soil-carbon>

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]