“I see the chicken and hog sheds. I know what’s in them, and it’s a nightmare for the animals. I have seen vast feedlots with 100,000 head of cattle in confinement eating fecal dust mixed with a combined corn concentrate ration that’s made to make them gain weight quickly.
And it's wrong! It's just wrong.
But if you think animal agriculture has no place for maintaining our native grasslands, think about what happened when the tall grass prairie was this huge carbon sink. What happened when the Sagebrush steppe of the Rocky Mountains was a healthy grassland ecosystem that included diverse riparians because there was sporadic grazing of buffalo that was both high intensity and short duration? What if we mimicked that in our animal agriculture and created a new paradigm? What if we created something that brings back native grasslands and carbon into the soil?”
Glenn Elzinga Alderspring Ranch Grassfed Organic Beef
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