The Savory Method

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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>

^^^ Discusses, among other issues, Shell Oil's financing of "Soil Carbon Cowboys," the first such documentary. Re: offsets, greenwashing & ties to Savory Institute. see also: <https://robbwolf.com/2016/03/18/sustainability-part-2-the-game-changers-of-small-ag/>

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 has inaccurately advertised WOP's products as "carbon-negative beef."[3]

  1. ↑ https://twitter.com/allanrsavory/status/1368586780790906885?s=21
  2. ↑ https://plantbaseddata.medium.com/the-failed-attempt-to-greenwash-beef-7dfca9d74333
  3. ↑ https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/climatecollaborative/mailings/1633/attachments/original/PPT-FINAL-Regenerative_Mapping-min_compressed.pdf?1579205603; p. 41
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