As I’ve noted many times before, including in Soy 101, grass-fed/pasture based grass finished cattle doesn’t eat much if any soy, and grass-fed/feed lot grain-finished cattle eats very little soy (largely husks in the form of pellets). This recent paper, … Continue reading The irony of protein corporations
I’m always somewhat bemused by “beef industry” criticism especially when it comes from media sources and organizations receiving a lot of funds from oligarchs heavily invested in alternative proteins. Why so bemused? Because beef is the least vertical of all … Continue reading Thoughts on de-industrializing the “beef industry”
Below is some Q &A with Greg Gunthorp [GG] and Carrie Balkcom [CB] regarding new “Product of USA” labeling rules being considered by the USDA. As discussed below, if these rules are implemented, any livestock meat product labeled “Product of … Continue reading Truth in advertising, therefore no more fraudulent “Product of U.S.A.” labels!
At last year’s National Product Expo West, after a two year hiatus due to Covid-19, attendance had been down. I’d guesstimate that attendance last year was down 40% or so. But this year, everything was pretty much back to normal … Continue reading Regen Ag ingredients, products, supply chains and more at this year’s Natural Products Expo West
“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
Western culture tends to split everything into binary opposing pairs. Such dialectical thinking permeates our thought process. So we have good versus evil, liberals versus conservatives, left versus right, East versus West, rural versus urban, black versus white, etc. Such … Continue reading Beyond Grass and Grains – Part One: Nutrition
I recently listened to a very interesting conversation on the Doctor’s Farmacy podcast with Dr. Uma Naidoo about nutritional psychiatry. I actually found this discussion interesting enough to buy Dr. Naidoo’s new book, This Is Your Brain on Food: An … Continue reading This is your brain on food- A book review
Okay so let’s get this straight in George Monbiot’s techno-optimistic scenario…. proteins and carbs are created via precision fermentation in brewing tanks requiring infrastructure, blue water and energy. These proteins and carbs (plus some additional minerals, antibiotics and growth factor) … Continue reading Techno-optimism run amok… George Monbiot’s latest delusion
Growing up north of Chicago with family in Southern Illinois, as a child, meant many hours spent being driven down state and back upstate gazing at miles and miles of soybean fields for as far as the eye could see. … Continue reading Soy 101
Many (not all) vegans tend to repeatedly make two false claims: B12 is routinely given to cattle Soil is a primary source of B12. Sadly, these false claims have become new “truths” in much of the vegansphere. So it came … Continue reading To B12 or to not to B12: Cobalt & cobalamin
Here’s we go again. so-called nutritional “scientists” and doctors are out there using relative risk to fear monger against eating red and processed meat. They’re more vociferous than usual since their weak science has been called out for what it … Continue reading The relative risk con game
A friend recently emailed me the following question: Is there a limit to how much carbon soil can hold which then prevents the kind of sequestration that would be needed to reverse climate change? Or, in other words, does soil … Continue reading Soil carbon saturation: Myth or reality?
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