I read your book as well as Will Harris’s A Bold Return to Giving a Damn. I truly look forward to reading your take on the differences between factory farming versus farming the old-fashioned way. I began to purchase locally raised beef and pork, asked a lot of geeky questions about how it was raised and processed. The ground beef I purchase is vastly better in every conceivable way than what I used to get from Omaha Steaks. I had a lot to learn about how food is grown and raised. I’m sure I still have a lot more to learn. My latest new t-shirt is Trust Farms Not Pharma. Thank you for teaching us.
It strikes me that I did not even know what real food is supposed to look like until I began to attend farmer’s markets. Farmers are so important but I did not give food or farming any real consideration until I got a serious health diagnosis. In lieu of this, I have an appreciation for our small farmers that goes beyond what mere words can convey.
Only beef cattle can be justified food not dairy cows. Calgary is bad for humans overall health. I needed and unhealthy. For both humans and the planet. Goat and sheep are the healthy dairy choices. Ecologically and individually.
stop picking on feedyards where slaughter cattle reside for 'bout 150 days. stop picking on jbs for using every bit of the beast. when you harvest on the farm do you scrape the guts for casings, process the tripes. save the pituitaries, render all the suet, tan the hides, grind the bones, collect the blood. or does a quantity become sacred "Compost"
That's a new concept to me. I do argue that CAFO cows have different impacts on the ecosystem than rotationally grazed cows -- because they very obviously do. But I never argue to ban factory farming, as I explain in my book. I also defended JBS in its lawsuit against NY. So please stop ranting about picking on feedyards, or "sacred compost." I keep all the suet and we make soap; I use the bones for broth; I buy casings; who eats tripe?; do you want my lamb and cow pituitaries? Do you want the blood? Are you defending industrial farms, or criticizing those of us who slaughter our own animals for not meeting your standards? Stop picking on small farms, Gavin. ;)
apologies for snark, to my mind small farms can do as they please. the authorities make that a problem. as to "industrial" farming, 25 years ago+- i came up with a phrase.
It is a miracle of sorts, or an illusion of false plenty -- no question it is an amazing productivity, but also no question that it is destroying water and soil: unsustainable. You might want to read my book: industrial farming is killing the earth.
And all living creatures on it. As a certified organic and biodynamic Farmer, I will be the first to admit that the entire premise of agriculture is falling. We have yet to implement a system that produced as many calories as the system we destroyed to implement ours.
That only is a narrative considered truthful by someone who doesn’t understand the dynamic of the overall industrial agrabusiness complex. To me, a meal should consist of nutrient, dense, toxin, free, environmentally, friendly, produce food. The vast majority of our meals come from a toxic input, the product agribusiness model. Having nothing to do with agriculture.
I read your book as well as Will Harris’s A Bold Return to Giving a Damn. I truly look forward to reading your take on the differences between factory farming versus farming the old-fashioned way. I began to purchase locally raised beef and pork, asked a lot of geeky questions about how it was raised and processed. The ground beef I purchase is vastly better in every conceivable way than what I used to get from Omaha Steaks. I had a lot to learn about how food is grown and raised. I’m sure I still have a lot more to learn. My latest new t-shirt is Trust Farms Not Pharma. Thank you for teaching us.
Oh, I want that T-Shirt!
My own education was the same -- everything we raise for food is tastier and healthier than what the stores offer.
Thanks for the encouragement! Keep on farming!!
The best education textbooks about real food are from Michael Pollan.
WE THE AMERICAN PEOPLES NEED TO UNITE AND FIGHT BACK AGAINST ALL EVILS UNITE WITH GOD AND HIS LIKE MINDED PRAY AND PREP!!!
I FIXED THE SPELLING ERROR WHY DID IT COME BACK?
You better get that dog, my out of the road because I will hit it with my karma and not feel bad about it.
WHAT R U YAKKING ABOUT?
This looks amazing!
It strikes me that I did not even know what real food is supposed to look like until I began to attend farmer’s markets. Farmers are so important but I did not give food or farming any real consideration until I got a serious health diagnosis. In lieu of this, I have an appreciation for our small farmers that goes beyond what mere words can convey.
Only beef cattle can be justified food not dairy cows. Calgary is bad for humans overall health. I needed and unhealthy. For both humans and the planet. Goat and sheep are the healthy dairy choices. Ecologically and individually.
Cow dairy*
stop picking on feedyards where slaughter cattle reside for 'bout 150 days. stop picking on jbs for using every bit of the beast. when you harvest on the farm do you scrape the guts for casings, process the tripes. save the pituitaries, render all the suet, tan the hides, grind the bones, collect the blood. or does a quantity become sacred "Compost"
"Picking on feedyards"
That's a new concept to me. I do argue that CAFO cows have different impacts on the ecosystem than rotationally grazed cows -- because they very obviously do. But I never argue to ban factory farming, as I explain in my book. I also defended JBS in its lawsuit against NY. So please stop ranting about picking on feedyards, or "sacred compost." I keep all the suet and we make soap; I use the bones for broth; I buy casings; who eats tripe?; do you want my lamb and cow pituitaries? Do you want the blood? Are you defending industrial farms, or criticizing those of us who slaughter our own animals for not meeting your standards? Stop picking on small farms, Gavin. ;)
apologies for snark, to my mind small farms can do as they please. the authorities make that a problem. as to "industrial" farming, 25 years ago+- i came up with a phrase.
Americas broken industrial food system; delivering 900,000,000+ meals/day.
It is a miracle of sorts, or an illusion of false plenty -- no question it is an amazing productivity, but also no question that it is destroying water and soil: unsustainable. You might want to read my book: industrial farming is killing the earth.
And all living creatures on it. As a certified organic and biodynamic Farmer, I will be the first to admit that the entire premise of agriculture is falling. We have yet to implement a system that produced as many calories as the system we destroyed to implement ours.
That only is a narrative considered truthful by someone who doesn’t understand the dynamic of the overall industrial agrabusiness complex. To me, a meal should consist of nutrient, dense, toxin, free, environmentally, friendly, produce food. The vast majority of our meals come from a toxic input, the product agribusiness model. Having nothing to do with agriculture.
Your defense of the indefensible is fucked up. Do better.
ESAD