Cows, Carbon and Climate | Joel Salatin | TEDxCharlottesville
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Joel Salatin, an organic farmer located in the Shanendoah Valley in Virginia, loves his grass - and so do his cows. In this talk Salatin outlines the role that this often unsung hero of the plant world plays in sustainable farming, and the effects that its efficient utilization can have on the world around us. Joel Salatin is a third generation beyond organic farmer and author whose family owns and operates Polyface Farm in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The farm produces salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, forage-based rabbits and direct markets everything to 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, and 10 retail outlets. A prolific author, Salatin's nine books to date include both how-to and big picture themes. The farm features prominently in Michael Pollan's NYT bestseller Omnivore's Dilemma and the award-winning documentary, Food Inc. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx
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Agreed, herbivores play a crucial role, but we have vastly outweighed the ratio to herbivores (cows in particular) to carbon sequestering. Cows hardly ever eat grass these days... Ever see on a menu- "Grass fed cows", yeah, that's a serious rarity.
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Quite the salesman. I'd be interested in getting the facts on the subject.
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This man is clearly self-interested in preserving farming of cows. Fact is it would still be massively inefficient, and contribute to loss of forests, drinkable water, and grain which could be used to feed the hungry. Eating beef just is not sustainable
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That man is an idiot who can’t stand any critic about his barbeque, and is making everything he can to feel good about he’s contribution to the problem that we have with animal agriculture, if we really wanted to still eat meat and have all cows grass fed we would need 2 planets covered with grass. Go watch cowspiracy. The answer is in our behavior, we have to learn to be humble and respectful towards nature. The answer is veganism. No excuses. This Talk is just confusing people about ridiculous ideas about wiring all the landscape
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The point IS, the POOR cows STILL DIE! They do NOT want to DIE! Do you? What if you were made to trade places with a cow, would you LIKE to die to become a corpse, destined for the hamburgers at McDonald's? Oh... You wouldn't? WELL. NEITHER DO COWS!
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What if American farmers grew grass mowed it at the "right time" and fed it to their cows? Would the carbon sink equate to the deisel used?
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New Zealand still grows all its beef on pastures (we call them paddocks here).
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okay, as far as I know for this to work and grow 10.000 pounds of grass you have to leave half of it on the ground because otherwise you couldn't produce 10.000 pounds witch makes 5.000 pounds
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Come to New Zealand, Mc'Ds and BK use beef from pasture only animals, you don't have to be organic to work with nature like he is talking.
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Won't see this kind of truth on the mass media or making it's way into the class room too much.
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Please come to Guelph, Ontario- They have one of the largest agricultural colleges in North America! They just built a multi-million Dollar research facility for dairy and beef. Conentration-camp style and pasture is only used to park cars on it.... Researching for the future of agriculture/livestock and not a single animal in their research facility ever sees the light of day. except the horses of course....
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Great talk!! It's a shame colleges are teaching cows need to eat corn.
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