PREFACE: The first week of this past August, I heard a presentation by Dr. James F. White, Jr. at the Acres’ Soil Health Summit in Sacramento, California. This was a very provocative presentation. Unfortunately, to my knowledge, this presentation wasn’t … Continue reading Endophytes, rhizophagy and One Health
I’m sort of a soil nerd. Well, not sort of…I’m a HUGE soil nerd. Most of my environmental and food perspective is based upon what improves or degrades the health of soil ecosystems. Why? Because soil health largely determines planetary … Continue reading Soil and human gut dysbiosis
One of the most meaningless stats bantered about by sophists is “grams of protein”. Why? Because proteins from different sources of food have different amino acid compositions and different bio-availability. So arguing that 100 grams of kidney beans has the … Continue reading Grams of protein in context
When you listen to journalists, sophists, and too many climate scientists, you’d think that cattle were the only source of atmospheric methane [CH4] and that their burps were solely to blame for climate change. While I’m being a tad bit … Continue reading The PMOH Cycle
Okay, my last blog was a review of a very underwhelming book with a lot of agenda driven misinformation based on a lot of poorly derived statistics. So just wanted to provide the below suggested reading list. If you’re truly … Continue reading Regenerative Ag, a suggested reading list
With so much dietary and political tribalism nowadays, I find it is very important to listen to and read varying viewpoints including many opposing points of view that challenge my own. So, I picked-up and read a copy of George … Continue reading Monbiot’s Regenesis: A review & response
Methane is emitted by a myriad of naturally occurring and anthropogenic biogenic sources in nature including shellfish, plankton, beaver ponds, rice paddies, wetlands, termites, arthropods, ruminants, dams, trees, or just about any place methanogenic archaea reside in anoxic environments (including … Continue reading Methane persistence and hydroxyl radical availability
(Image above courtesy of Understanding Ag) One of the bigger problems to overcome today is reductive thinking. This problem is especially bad in a world where everyone wishes to reduce complex concepts to memes. So to get people to system … Continue reading Interdependent cycles and rainfall
This is an interesting white paper, Bruce-Iri et al 2021, METHANE Sources, Sinks and Uncertainties. Walter Jehne is one of the co-authors. I spoke with Walter at some length on the topic of monoterpenes and hydroxyl radical [OH] oxidation during … Continue reading Context matters: Green zone hydroxyl radical formation and methane oxidation.
To begin with, in regards to accounting for enteric emissions (“cow burps”), most people use global stats. So even if you use 2006 Long Shadow as a reference, and actually read that document, a large portion of that 18% attributed … Continue reading How much do cattle contribute to greenhouse gases?
“Part of living is killing. I don’t care if you eat vegan or you eat meat, you are responsible for death. I would argue that if you’re vegan, you are responsible for way more death than if you eat a … Continue reading Life and death from the soil food web on up
Deforestation is too often reduced to what’s most conspicuous. But deforestation is complex and a lot more than raising beef cattle or growing soybeans. To begin with, despite all the biodiversity especially of plant life, rain forest soil isn’t very … Continue reading The Deforestation Process
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