A Revolutionary Act

 As the World Economic Forum (WEF) continues to exhort us to eat bugs. I continue to note that properly raised on grass, rotating pasture lands, cows are good for the environment and provide food for people.  We can not eat grass...er...we can, but can not derive nutrition therefrom.  Unglulates, like cows, on the other hand, can create nutrition for us, while storing carbon in the soil.  Here in North Carolina, much of the land in the piedmont and foothills is not really suitable for raising crops.  The soil is poor and rocky, and the only thing we easily raise is grass and weeds.  But it is good, if not great, for raising cows.

John Klar has an article at the American Thinker today entitled The Case for Cows that discusses why we should change the way we raise cows to provide food for humans, improve the soil, and use fewer chemicals from Big Agribusiness, and get the WEF out of our lives.

Climate cultists have strayed far from science in their crusade to "save the world." The latest speculation is that wolves and beavers, and the "rewilding" of parts of the planet, will sequester carbon dioxide. Common sense demonstrates that exponentially more carbon would be sequestered — and water and soil preserved — by releasing cows from Concentrated Animal Feed Operations and "rewilding" them to managed rotational grazing.

Lately there has been a media push to convince people that cows are somehow "not natural." Yet modern cattle are merely the decendants of a now extinct species wild oxen known as aurocks. There has also been a media push, including diet doctors, to convince us that eating beef is somehow "bad." But grass feed beef is good food. The "bad" beef is industrial meat fed with corn. But the truth is that corn is not healthy food for people nor cows. Feeding meat from unhealthy cows results in unhealthy people. Just as corn fattens cows, it also fattens people and the results can be seen on our streets every day. But grass fed beef is quite healthy, and statisfying, and provides plenty of energy.

Rotationally grazed, grass-fed cows convert sunlight to food through grasses humans don't eat. Their manure feeds the soil biome, increasing plant growth without tilling:

The amount of carbon in an acre of grassland versus an acre of cropland depends on soil type, topography and other factors, but based on numerous studies researchers have determined that converting grassland to cropland results in a 30 to 40 percent loss of carbon stored in the ground.

Those who seek to replace beef with beets propose to release huge amounts of carbon!

John Klar has a few cows on 7 acres in Vermont. He does it for food security and for his community. But he also points out that raising cows has become a revolutionary act.