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The pet food industry traditionally relies on factoryfarm byproducts for its ingredients, a practice the industry touts as more sustainable as it produces less waste and cheaper food. It started sourcing scraps from places such as White Oak Pastures , a farm in Bluffton, Georgia committed to regenerative and humane farming techniques.
As the owner of a multi-generational farm, Mardesen has seen industrial agriculture and factoryfarming take increasing control over meat production in the last few decades. With that has come the extreme overuse of antibiotics in livestock farming. Ron Mardesen stopped the use of routine antibiotics nearly 40 years ago.
, has been assiduously gathering evidence on the carbon outcomes of his farming system for more than 20 years. Richard reports, stunningly, that he is sequestering 10 times more carbon than the farm is omitting, and this is despite the fact that he built his fertility with beef cattle. That is also Roundup.
Catastrophe loomed everywhere I looked: in the dust bowls on the once-fertile plains of central Turkey, in the vanishing lakes of Mexico City, in the fetid cesspools outside the factoryfarms of North Carolina, in the disease-ravaged olive trees of Puglia, in the rapid wiping away of diverse food webs in every biome.
Grass-fed beef is also leaner than conventional beef; this means there will be less fat marbling in your steak or burger when cooking with grass-fed meat compared to regular supermarket products from factoryfarms that raise cattle on corn feedlots. These plants provide excellent nutrition for cattle.
No scientist has ever taken a methane sample from the cows on our farm. Would the data points derived from our pastured cows be different than a cow locked in a Fresno feedlot eating GMO corn and soybeans? Or factoryfarms? Or cattle feedlots? This is why data sourcing matters. Is it possible? Does it matter?
The farm then creates a second source of income.” In other words, Vilsack argued, climate action could help save the American farm. The problem, the census data suggest, is that American farms, especially big factoryfarms that generate significant greenhouse gas emissions, are growing in size.
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