Regenerative agriculture where cows graze land in an ancestrally consistent manner can sequester more carbon into the soil than they produce.

“if managed properly as Peter suggests and as we are seeing with farms like white oak pastures and the work of Allan savory can actually create carbon negative processes in these farms they can actually create increased amounts of soil based organisms soil based organic matter which can be a sink for carbon decreasing the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere which is a pretty amazing thing”

“they have been certified as carbon negative meaning they sequester more carbon into the soil than they produce”

“they have had a life cycle analysis by the University of Southern California and shown to be carbon negative so as we talked about at the end of this debunking and as I've been talking about in a lot of my podcast recently and as you will hear in future podcasts this is one of the major answers for us in the future regenerative agriculture it's such a return to the ancestral ways of raising animals and guess what it doesn't produce more carbon than its sequester's its negative for sequester's more carbon in the soil than it produces it could be a very useful adjunct for decreasing the greenhouse gases that we put in the environment”

“when you can be carbon negative as white oak pastures has been demonstrated to be by lifecycle analyses we can sequester more carbon into the soil then we are producing when we are growing and farming cows and other ruminants”

“what is cool about regenerative agriculture this type of Agriculture has actually been shown to be carbon negative meaning that because of animals living on the land in an ecosystem with plants they poop on the land they pee on the land they enrich the soil with nutrients specifically phosphorus nitrogen other things which are needed for plans to develop big root systems when plants have bigger root systems they can fix more carbon dioxide from the environment into the roots and that is part of the carbon cycle that is how carbon gets pulled out of the environment into the roots into the ground and carbon emissions can be net negative meaning that though ruminants may burp which is the primary source of methane emissions from a cow the plants will sequester more carbon into the soil than the ruminants are burping its carbon negative”

“regenerative agriculture farms like white oak Ocampo Rome ranch when you increase the quality of the soil you can sequester more carbon into the soil their carbon negative based on life cycle analyses”

“animals raised properly ruminant animals raised properly in a regenerative fashion sequester carbon or part of a cycle a natural ecosystem cycle that sequesters carbon into the soil and makes the soil more fertile it increases the microbiome of the soil mycorrhizal networks with the plants and the roots that allow plants to grow more robustly feeding the animals leading us to be healthier because we are eating healthier animals and leading the soil to continue to provide plants with nutrients which provide animals with nutrients and the ecosystem works”

“the amount of carbon sequestered into the soil is much higher than the amount of the actual production from the cows meaning that these cows are carbon negative something that plant-based emissions plant-based burgers soybeans impossible burgers or beyond burgers cannot claim”

“when you do rotational grazing when you grass feed and grasp finish a cow you are in fact sequestering more carbon into the soil than that cow is producing in methane equivalents”

“if you look at the epa data from 2014 and 2017 in terms of greenhouse gas emissions cattle produce 1.8 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions in the united states for a year 1.8 percent which is less than significantly less than the greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and the biggest three polluters transportation production of fossil fuels burning of fossil fuels and industry and technology so that's more than three but i kind of broke those up into different things but if you look at the relative contributions you know like outside of agriculture so plant agriculture is about five percent of greenhouse gas emissions per year in the us animal agriculture is about four percent of that cows are 1.8 so about 90 of greenhouse gas emissions are non-agriculture right we all have to eat there has to be some ecosystem around food but only 10 of greenhouse gases come from food 90 of greenhouse gases come from things that we're doing that are lifestyle driven right cars burning fossil fuel technology like just to i i just wanted to make sure you're aware of this data because when people make statements like that they're eating plant-based for the environment i kind of bristle and think that's a mistake from all the data that i've seen and then the other point that i would add is if you're aware of something called regenerative agriculture which is ecosystems agriculture where cows are grazing on land in an ancestrally consistent manner they can actually sequester more carbon into the soil than they produce so regenerative agriculture can sequester carbon into the environment it's carbon negative so raising more ruminants on this planet that are raised that way from farms like white oak pastures decreases carbon in the environment so i have a shirt that i always wear and i didn't wear it today um it says eat meat save the planet like you know if you were to eat meat from white oak pastures which is down in georgia and you should come december 14th and 15th we're going to be in georgia i know you're a busy guy but like you should check out white oak pastures they're carbon negative they had a life cycle analysis by usc they sequester more carbon into the soil than they produce so if we support farms like that we can decrease overall all greenhouse gases so this notion that by not eating meat we are somehow saving the planet i i would argue against that”

“if you look at something called regenerative agriculture which is ecosystems agriculture where cows are grazing on land in an ancestrally consistent manner they can actually sequester more carbon into the soil than they produce so regenerative agriculture can sequester carbon into the environment it's carbon negative”

“regenerative agriculture of ruminants like cows is clearly carbon negative meaning that when you raise a cow on grass for its whole life with rotational grazing like they do at White Oak pastures or other regenerative Farms it has been shown repeatedly through life cycle analysis that this sequesters more carbon into the soil than is actually released in the production of that beef”

“and they actually increase the carbon in the soil so they're sequestering carbon into the soil which is kind of where it belongs”