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In her book, Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World, she (Lynne Pledger) and her co-author Ridge Shinn argue that raising cattle properly not only offsets the pollution caused by methane but offers a way to make soil – literally the earth – healthier and more productive.
They use the term regenerative grazing. The practice involves not just feeding the cattle with only grass and hay but rotating them from pasture to pasture at certain points. This allows microbes in the soil to thrive and to sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
In the model espoused by Pledger and Shinn, cattle end their lives nearer to their original homes and in more humane ways than they do in industrial feed lots. Their lives are happier, and their meat is more nutritious. ~ Tinky Weisblat
