Millions of Tiny Cows to Regenerate the Soil - CounterPunch.org
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Earth Day comes and goes every year but nothing seems to ever really change. We are still headed for climate catastrophe, we are still in the midst of a mass extinction, we are still losing our topsoil at an alarming rate. It is time to center food systems, and especially agriculture, in our efforts to More

Plant based foods systems and degrowth are necessary to combat climate change. Failure to recognize this is soft climate denialism based in profit or self interest

  • Optional [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Regarding manure, Dr. Kassam explains that it is nothing more than biomass pushed through a ruminant’s gut, you can leave biomass on the ground and it will be taken in by “our friends the earthworms and termites”. The idea is that nature already has mechanisms in place to break down and recycle nutrients, these processes aren’t dependent on humans providing ecosystems with animals we’ve domesticated. He says, ‘So you have millions of little cows – if you want to have the cow image – in the soil already. But we have killed them. We’ve told them to bugger off with our tillage, destroying their habitats all the time. But they were there–put in there by nature to do the very thing which we then say “we need a big cow to do it”

    • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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      4 years ago

      Another instance of a technocratic solution for a social problem, which is rife when it comes to animal agriculture. Necessarily, their solutions will always be bunk. It's like trying to solve the problems posed to the environment by cars by investing in Teslas instead of degrowth and getting rid of cars, building public infrastructure. Animal ag is the problem, and it won't be solved with more animal ag.

      This is similar to my deer hunting effortpost. Tldr: deer overpopulation is a lie produced and propagated by those who profit from deer hunting.

      • pocket_tofu [she/her,fae/faer]
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        4 years ago

        Lmao whoops, that link is dead. If anyone wants to read my deer effort post, I can repost it