Andrew Huberman· PhD
They practice regenerative agriculture, which means the meat is climate positive and carbon negative.
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They practice regenerative agriculture, which means the meat is climate positive and carbon negative.
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they had a life cycle analysis done through the University of Colorado and the scientists who looked at their carbon and greenhouse gas emissions discovered that they actually sequester more greenhouse gases in the soil than they produce
for environmental reasons we definitely know that grass fed animals have less of a carbon footprint and we can go into the carbon footprint stuff a little bit of people won't hear about that but the short in the long of that is that it's been widely over overly simplified and that grass fed animals are probably actually carbon negative because of the way they enrich the soil
cows are grazing on land in an ancestral inconsistent 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
WE ARE CELEBRATING AGRICULTURE THAT IS THINKING ABOUT THE LAND THE PROPER GRAZING OF ANIMALS THE REPLENISHMENT OF THE SOIL AND CARBON NEGATIVE ECOSYSTEMS THAT'S RIGHT CARBON NEGATIVE ECOSYSTEMS
they are doing rotational grazing regenerative agriculture grass feeding grass finishing they have been shown to be putting more organic matter into the soil putting carbon into the soil they are life cycle negative in terms of carbon when these analyses have been done
if we're going to the animals grass feeding grass finishing is the way to do it both in terms of greenhouse gas emissions which we can talk about and also caring for the land less toxins and the animals probably very little toxins in the animal depending on the quality of the grass the quality of the land the animals are on
cows are producing some methane how can we offset that methane this is the way we do it
saying you know when you raise a cow on pasture from start to finish it does better from a greenhouse gavis from his bash emissions perspective
ruminant agriculture is one way to start reversing that in farms like white oak which can sequester carbon in the soil
the way that they can sequester carbon into the soil in a regenerative farming practice they can be carbon negative or they can be carbon neutral right
regenerative agriculture that is rotational grazing grass feeding grass finishing of animals which is the only type of agriculture that can restore ecosystems restore the microbiome the microbiota the mycorrhizal networks of the soil and in doing so it sequesters carbon into the soil
regenerative agriculture grass feeding and grass finishing can easily be carbon negative and as they reflect here a beyond burger is carbon positive soybeans are carbon positive pork is carbon positive chicken is carbon positive okay yes if you compare this to what happens in a traditionally raised tau they're going to be much more carbon positive than a regeneratively raised cow
if you compare this to what happens in a traditionally raised tau they're going to be much more carbon positive than a regeneratively raised cow
Farms like white oak pastures I think there's another one called Circle C there's a farm here in Austin card called shirttail Creek many other Farms Richardson Farms are doing regenerative agriculture that's kind of what I described at White Oak where they're rotating pastures and the cows are fed grass their whole life and it's better for the cow it's better for the soil and it's better for the whole lifestyle
regeneratively raised beef beef that is grass-fed grass finished rotationally raised that is carbon negative that is much better for ecosystems the soil the grass the health of the animals and the health of you eating it
grass-feeding grass finishing cattle like is done on this regenerative farm and Australia is carbon negative it improves the quality of the soil and sequesters more carbon into the soil than is created in the production of the meat from these animals
if we create systems that are regenerative cows on the land grazing moving rotating in the pastures that that is carbon neutral or carbon negative that regenerates the land
cows raised on grass throughout their lives this is called regenerative agriculture actually increases carbon sequestration in the soil so that's net negative for greenhouse gases and it improves the entire ecosystem
It's better for the environment. Regenerative agriculture works better when the cows are fed grass their whole lives.
This is why regenerative agriculture is so important. Why what the food you eat eat eats is important because cows that are raised on feed lots, they're fed grains which are contaminated with mold, with pesticides, plastic particles.
Grass-fed, grass-finished, regeneratively raised meat is carbon neutral or carbon negative.