Food and agriculture number crunching, part 2
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
By and large there is a far too simplistic debate about the role of livestock in our food and agriculture systems.
Tag: livestock farming
Decolonizing Regenerative Cattle Ranching
By Ray Levy Uyeda, YES! magazine
While some might praise regenerative agriculture as a new advent, the techniques are older than the U.S. itself.
Monbiotic Man
By Simon Fairlie, The Land Magazine
The imperative is not to stop farming, but to phase out fossil fuels very quickly. Cavalier polemics that cast primary responsibility for our predicament elsewhere are a dangerous diversion.
Letter From The Farm | Bridging Worlds Old and New
By Claire Jeannerat, ARC2020
For both Claire and her husband, shepherding in the mountains is a lifestyle choice rather than a career. They endeavour to live this vocation in a manner that respects and upholds ancient traditions that are being lost in modern society, bridging a path between the old and new.
Letter From The Farm | Winterage In The Burren
By Shane Casey, ARC2020
We’re back on Shane Casey’s farm in the Burren, Ireland, where it’s nearly time for the reverse transhumance cattle drive – or ‘winterage’ as it’s known locally.
Letter From The Farm | A Swiss Shepherdess In Bohemia
By Louise Kelleher, ARC2020
It’s a source of satisfaction to Jacqueline that she and her family are very much present in the fields around the village where they live. One reason she wanted to become a farmer was to see animals in the pastures.
Farming Bounded By Our Biological Boundaries – Part 3
By Stuart Meikle, ARC2020
Methane has a role to play in sustainable farming. We cannot let the debate around methane emissions cloud the broader benefits of farming with ruminants...
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth…
By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future
The single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth is to stop thinking there’s a single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, or that bang for your buck metrics of this kind are helpful in formulating how best to live.
Letter From The Farm | Rasputin The Ram & The Ethics Of Lamb For Easter Dinner
By Matthew Hayes, ARC2020
What is the value of a life? What is the consequence of a death? Is there a right way to kill? What is the best way to live?
Don’t throw the cow out with the feedlot
By Gunnar Rundgren, Garden Earth
While there are many environmental and ethical reasons to criticize industrial forms of livestock production, there are no valid reasons to shun the rearing of livestock in general.
Livestock and food security: A contested relationship
By Robert Barbour, Sustainable Food Trust
How are we going to feed an increasingly hungry planet, without crippling the life support systems on which we depend? It’s an existentially important question, the solution to which will require action on a myriad of fronts.
Thoughtful Eating
By Lizzie Rowe, Sustainable Food Trust
The polarisation of the meat debate is driving a dangerous divide between people united by the same aim: saving the planet. We need to stop demonising and start collaborating. Whether we choose to eat animal protein or not, the thing that really matters is that we think about our food choices. Forget omnivore, flexitarian, vegetarian, vegan – we should all be united as thoughtful eaters.