Cattle vs Planet Earth 

"How it's practiced" usually focuses on what the farmer does. In my opinion what choices the consumer makes has the most impact.

@@phillyphreak5418 It surely would be some of both. To ecologize a thing of great demand requires more effort than to ecologize a thing of very little demand that might as well be ignored.

@@phillyphreak5418 Exactly. Most people use price as guide. Many people have only eaten that factory farm meat so they don’t know how good naturally raised meat tastes. Not only meat but chickens that free range lay eggs that have orange yolks and thick egg white compared to the pale runny eggs of chickens inhumanly kept in cages. Some advertise their eggs as cage free but there’s thousands of hens crammed into windowless buildings, that never have access to sunlight or grass.

The late Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, once pointed out in an interview much of what Morgan is saying. Livestock raising helps the soil by fertilizing and building the soil. Raising plant crops only takes from the soil and adds very little to the soil. Furthermore, all the pollen released would worsen allergies and affect air breathability. It's a proven fact that termites put out more methane than livestock raising does. Another thing that is a contributor to greenhouse gases are volcanic eruptions. People have been raising livestock for thousands of years, and if they truly were bad for the planet, Earth would've become a barren rock by now.

yes and no. While it is 100% correct, that industrial agriculture is a menace and it is probably correct, that small farms are the only way to actually do what you described , you cant make the generalisation, that small farms are automatically good, because it depends on how said farm is operating. Even a small regional farmer can do this in a way, that will be cruel regarding the animals, while polluting the local groundwater and bodies of open water near the fields ( as far as i know for example a big chunk of the notrth american "chicken production" is kind of franchised and done by small afrms, but in such a horrible way, that it doesnt benefit anybody - including the famer - except the major company, who holds the contract) I grew up in a small village with 5-6 local family farms and they all held their cattle and pigs in stables for their entire life, not seeing the sun ever. The chicken in cage batteries (forbidden these days) and released the animal slurry on their fields every year in waaay to big quantities, polluting the local ground water and causing the local lakes to tipp over and become eutrophic. Also this would lead do a conversation about how the form of capitalism works we developped (wages vs. profits), because it's all nice and good when you can actiually afford to buy your food organic, but the majority of the poeple - and i live in a major G7 country - simply can not and have to rely on cheap, industrial and processed food. And then again- organic red lentils from china, organic strawberries from israel, organic bananas/mangos/ avocados or wild salmon cought with questionable methods makes the entire thing a mockery and is basically just a form of selling of indulgences. Which again leads to what we our - so called - free markets + capitalism develoed in to and how we need a shift in values to actually change all this, because as long as we live in a world, where the main mantras are "maximizing profits + infinite growth" , nothing people like Morgan are doing on their small scale will even make a dent the over all development.

Small farms are best for supply? Farming is a dying trade so you're dreaming if you think small farms could supply grocery stores. More people need to start farming for smaller farms to be viable for supplying the market.

@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis You're right, we need more farms. The food supply is too concentrated in a select few corporations we have painfully found out the past several years.

@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis If more people start asking for small-farm food, the trend would reverse.

Small farms are great don't get me wrong, but it is impossible to meet the supply and demand of beef that our country uses.

Do invasive species contribute to biodiversity? All of the introduced species were invasive.

@@chrisluttor2275 for farming? Yeah pretty much all farming in the US killed off native species dozens of decades ago. There are some native meats but it's far less likely 'Murica makes a GIGANTIC change from the cow/pig/chicken addiction over to bison/deer/turkey than it would be to have the current livestock lifecycle slow down to accommodate regenerative farming like this. Granted, it would be great if we changed both the types of meat consumed and how farmland is used, I just don't see the artery clogging beef/pork/fried chicken tastes changing as easily. Taking down wasteful monocultures is a good first step at least.

@@inuendo6365 Where did the quote 'Murica makes(') come from? There is also a missing quotation mark. Where does it go? Being grammatically correct really does make a difference in the quality of your argument. Please advise.

@@chrisluttor2275 'Murica is slang for the broadly stereotyped American population. Conservative-leaning on environmental topics and addicted to cheap/fast food, among a number other traits that aren't flattering not relevant here. I'm not so much arguing as agreeing that yeah, there are a TON of invasives used for farming. It's a global problem really (because high demanding capitalism is everywhere) but Gold Shaw is in America which is why I was throwing shade at the dietary habits of 'Murica.

@@inuendo6365 I'm glad to see that you can write in proper English. Are you always this condescending? Do you really believe that your diet is so wonderful? Maybe you should examine where most of the world's diet comes from. Famine was a worldwide problem until the transportation of New World foods. Corn, various beans and many vegetables come from South/Central America. The population explosion of the 19th and 20 centuries is based upon these imported plants. I see that you have real difficulty with people being fed. Be thankful that capitalism nurtured our present population because it sure wasn't Marx and his lunatic ideas about farming.

Is dumb to not be allowed to dry your clothes outside. Is your home after all, not theirs.

We're in the mooed.

Or a Tuesday morning.!

Cool someone else uses these emojis!

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Shoutout to Western NY! Greetings from Rochester New York, I'm always curious about the farms around Monroe County and elsewhere, Livingston etc.

The waste is used to fertilize the fields that grow the crops to feed the cattle. Dozens of videos on RU-vid show how commercial diaries operate.

Her and Bonnie McMurray

Too bad no sources was cited. It sounded like he compared co2 with methane. Which you can't do. So it felt a bit dishonest

@@drGigg 21:20 there is one source he cited... besides this is not a school research project, he is NOT required to cite sources. He is simply explaining HIS own perspective from his own research, experience and thought. As far as methane vs CO2 both are considered greenhouse gases, Methane technically has far greater "warming potential" on its own. However arguably CO2 is worse in that it causes the atmosphere to hold more water vapor in general which is supposedly the cause of the vast majority of the greenhouse effect on the planet. So you feel both self-righteous and dishonest. Please don't forget that we all burp and fart as evidenced by these comments.

At the very least, those soybean farms need to employ crop rotations so that a group of nutrients can bounce back after being depleted while the land is still in use growing other plants. Winterizing the soil (covering ground with dead leaves) is an important topic that I see more often that I bet that a lot of farms don't use. I'd also like to see a way to incorporate the production of edible insects into the 'Green Farm' equation.

Same

@@NaiWildheart full disclosure- we are homesteaders but we still go to the grocery store for some things. What we have found our biggest issue is is not what to grow but how well you can store it after your growing season. Research canning and preserving then grow what you will eat! You can grow the most nutrient rich whatever’s but it doesn’t do any good if you don’t want to eat it (for example I hate squash so as good as it is for me I don’t give it much room in the garden). We do a lot of potatoes, peppers, berries, a neglected apple orchard. Keep it colorful and you’ll do great. Also give yourself some grace. Strive to do better, not perfect. Better is always attainable.

You need to eat 4-5x the amount of protein from plants vs animals?? Got any legitimate data to back that ridiculous claim up?

@@georgehornsby2075 its called "bioavailability"

​@@georgehornsby2075 Look at the amino acid density of your favorite meat and compare it to the amino density of your favorite bean. Then look up what is "essential" (cannot be synthesized by our bodies) and see how they compare. Also think about how toxins accumulate in animals further up the food chain. The same can be said about proteins and aminos acids. Plants are at the low end of the food chain and therefore, have very little protein. Animals are much higher and have much denser protein.

@@theurzamachine Ok, I'll play along and waste my time. I assume you will ignore this comment as people like you don't care about the truth. Since the video is about soy and beef let's use those. 100g beef EAAs 11.6g total protein 23g percentage of protein that is "essential amino acids" 50%. 100g soy beans: EAAs 16.1g, total protein 36.5g percentage of protein that is EAA 44% (sources all from USDA) As you can see they are very similar in terms of amounts of EAAs. Now please explain why you need 4-5x the amount of protein from vegetables...

@@wtice4632 You're called "an idiot". Think about it logically for a second. How much animal protein do you need a day? I'm going to assume you think about 100g. So if we follow that logic someone who doesn't eat animal protein would need 400-500g?? People clearly aren't doing that so how are they still alive?

What I was thinking. Although both are cattle they have different purposes for most part. Although the dairy cattle will end up on people’s plates also.

look, I am all for low scale farming like mr Gold does here, but you must not think that it is more efficient than industrial farming , especially in labor. one guy in this so called bio-industry can produce up to 50 times more in food, that's the WHOLE IDEA , that's why they DO IT! they don;t care for animal well being or environment costs etc.. they just look at numbers, how to produce as much as possible ,for the cheapest possible price (this includes lowest labour costs) BTW. my x50 number is not an exaggeration. We have a farm here with 2250 cows, that is run by 1 farmer and his daughter. (and a lot of machines and robots) If we get rid of that (which we need to do to save the planet) we must accept that we as a whole can eat a lot less beef, eggs, chicken. Because it;s not possible to have 50 gold shaw farms for each mega farm . In an ideal world, we would eat only gold shaw beef, just not every day.. Maybe twice a week, and eat vegetarian the rest of the days.

His last name is actually Gold

I wonder if they meant sea grass instead of seaweed. Being an actual grass would keep the cows on their intended plant classification diet, providing the fiber that algae doesn't have. What I'd picture as seaweed food wouldn't provide them a cud to chew. hmmm more reading ahead for me.

Seaweed: yup…read a lot. Most of those studies focus on cattle eating grain. The seaweed acts in a similar fashion as grass. Most would argue that if you have a 100% grass fed diet the seaweed isn’t necessary or effective.

This would probably be most viable for farms near the sea. Otherwise you've got to add the environmental costs of shipping the seaweed to the farm.

Yup…up to date on all my shots

@@GoldShawFarm phew that's great. Thanks for the message. You rock Morgan! God bless!

Vast knowledge? Let's be realistic here; he's still learning. While he has good information here and there, to take it all in as fact is just silly. Did you try building a hoop coop based on the information he gave you on the first one he made? 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

@@CantThinkOfAHandleSoItsThis By any chance do you know how many times it took Thomas A. Edison to invent the electric light bulb?

I was thinking that exact thing.

Not paranoid. Cat-related injuries have high infection rates. Cat scratch fever is a known thing.

@@TechnologyWitch my husband got cat scratch fever and he was extremely ill for a very long time...