The real story of beef, climate, and your health – Diet Doctor Podcast

Stop producing so many grains and give the land back to the cattle!

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My son-in-law is a cattle farmer in Kentucky. His cattle are grass fed, hay in the winter months, up to finishing. He’s not yet ready to grass finish. His highest profitability comes from managing the soil and not overgrazing. Weak, sickly, temperamental, or poor mothering skills get a cow sold at the next Auction. He’s not an environmental nut but no chemicals, no drugs for the cows, mostly grazing and minimal rolling of hay is good for the soil, good for the grass, good for the cow, and good for his business!!!

Where I live I’m surrounded by farmers fields on 3 sides ..they used to be regenerative farms ..now they’ve been bought out by farmers who cash crop, farmers who own thousands of acres..they are not stewards of the land ..they cut down the fence rows ( homes to numerous animals ) also planted there by past generations to stop wind erosion and soil loss ..then they burn the wood ..they are constantly tilling the fields, spraying the fields with herbicide and pesticides and now they are allowed to use pelletized human waste for fertilizer …they own huge farming equipment that fills the whole road both sides it’s so big ..they constantly run drying bins for drying grains and soya beans before being sold and have huge transports to truck to the grain dryers and then to the final grain silos for sale ..what about all of this is supposed to be better for the environment ? As someone who’s lived in the country all my life almost 60 years ..from my perspective cattle is not the problem

Does the study address the destruction of the micro biome of the soil when using sustained chemical fertilizer? And did it address the land quality when millions of buffalo roamed the great plains?

My diet is carnivore....my body does not react well to fruits, vegetables, grains. So inflammatory for me. I have no desire to eat anything that makes me feel awful. This guy needs to understand that not all people can eat the crap of the government food pyramid and if he reduces meat then he is reducing the amount of food for people like me.

Look in to the work of the Savory institute. They calculate the regenerative farming can actually reverse carbon impacts.

Once again the issue is framed as emissions rather than net emissions taking into account the change in stable sum which is near zero with livestock. We can't have a good discussion as long as we do not qualify the proper metrics. The Idea that we can somehow "re-wild" the great prairie without large stocks of ruminant animal grazing is absurd. This is trying to re-capture a past that never existed.

Please interview Dr Natasha Campbell McBride about the Eco farm she now has - there was no healthy soil originally - now the animals that she has has created great humus.

I would rather look at a range land of cattle, goats, and sheep than acres of vinyards, orchards, nut trees, and veggie fields. Give meat a chance.

Missing discussions on what are the plant agricultur impact on the climate. What about monoculture crops? Why is all the focus on ruminants? Thankful for a response.

Just recently there was an article in The Guardian about british children of age 5 are about 5 cm shorter than similar countries in northern Europe. And NHS have about 700 admissions per year for kids suffering from rakitis and scurvy. The problem have been present and noticable at a domestic level that poorer socioeconomic status often have a negative effect but the problem has grown. They point out missing fruit and veg and oily fish but I suspect that in questionnaires they say they eat chicken meat and that may be miniscule pieces in huge chunks of that dough that often are around in a lot of chicken sold cheap both as street food and also as frozen food.

He was chatting about more circular efficient farming: it’s less polluting which has a huge impact on health (and obvs environment) So you move cows across land in a way that mimics predator chasing and then you follow with like chickens and like all of this builds soil etc which holds more water and nutrients so you get better grass and worms etc. Basically you need less fertilisers, get a healthier product (because there are more micronutrients and not just the N P K mix (nitrogen phosphorus potassium)in standard fertilisers that only focus on product size. But also less pesticides etc. So like a major factor affecting health is pollution. Sure pollution from industries, micro plastics etc, but like pollution from fertilisers and pesticides/herbicides/insecticides have huge health impacts. Like organophosphate use literally lowers IQ. Nevermind effects on inflammation etc. Also like the Carbon footprint of ammonia production (fertilisers) is staggering (like overshadows beef for sure).

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Demand always influences supply. If we buy grass-fed beef and pasture-raised animal products, it not only helps tilt the markets and farms towards healthier agricultural methods that not only help the planet but help us, but regeneratively grown products TASTE fabulous!

A good nuanced discussion. My education is in ecology and the blanket statements about the beef industry never made sense to me, and I come from the perspective wanting to give more back to nature. I keep bees, and I try to keep them as far from intensive monocrop plant agriculture as I can. These are chemical soaked fields with very low biodiversity, leaking carbon into the atmosphere as the soils degrade. Not very good for the rest of life. A nice pasture will have much more biodiversity, have different things blooming at different times of year. A well managed pasture will accumulate carbon and get better with time. This year on my small acreage, I am starting pasture raised poultry. They will have a role in pest control, will fertilize my garden and orchard, recycle vegetable waste. As they get moved across the landscape I will follow behind and seed things to build soils, build biodiversity, provide better long term forage for the chickens, and provide better forage for bees. And of course I will fill my freezer with high quality nutritious meat. The landscapes around here are suited for beef once you get off the river bottom. We worry a bit about forest encroachment on grasslands and we are started to do burns to maintain them. In the big picture, we should be looking to give back to nature, deintensify land use, and look for ways to enhance nature even in areas of high use. We should be looking for win win situations. We need to hang on to biodiversity until human population levels begin to fall. Japan and now China are beginning to have reductions in population. Hopefully we see interesting experiments in land restoration in those countries.

Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you got 'til it's gone They paved paradise by telling us another lie

It's really a freaking crying shame that we have to have such a discussion and studies like this. It's obvious that Coke and Pepsi and Gatorade and onion rings are not better for us than beef and lamb which are some of the best sources of nutrients. We also know who does these studies, who pays for these studies Coke and Pepsi and onion ring makers. They want to grab the land and produce more of their junk food in the name of client change, such a lie! Beef and lamb are two foods that you could live off solely forever and be perfectly healthy and thriving. Beef and lamb are not only high in zinc and iron but they are high in amino acids. They are high in essential proteins and fats and plants do not have the same value in Amino acids and have little to no essential protein! You have to eat four to five times as many plants to get the same amount of amino acids such as leucine. This whole climate change and cow farts BS is such a farce and again it's just sad that we have come to the fact that we're defending what God, what nature gave us to eat, what humans have been living off of Since since the dawn of time! It's disgusting it's a lie it's extremely sad that they keep pushing this on us because they don't care about human life and they don't care about animals and they don't care about the planet all they care about is power and destroying the world so they can "build back better" and act like gods.

Good conversation!

Gee it must have been a tough go getting enough fruit and veggies 20000 years ago