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Grass Agriculture

By John Neil Conkle

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What We’ll Cover

• What Makes Grass-Fed Special?

• How is it different from Grain-Fed?

• Economic Considerations

• Should we eat meat?

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What Makes Grass Different?

Let’s take a detour…

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Why Should We Care?

• Grass captures solar energy very efficiently

• Humans can’t digest it

• Grassland sequesters carbon

• Smart Ranching Highly Efficient Use of Land

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Rotational Grazing

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…Go on?

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Grass Fed – the stats

• Twice as expensive

• Cows are smaller than grain-fed cows

• Take longer to grow

• Not available in most supermarkets

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Why Buy Them Then?

• Preferences

• Health Benefits

• Moral/Ethical Concerns

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Economic Implications

And Why It’ll Be Niche for a While

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Grass is a Niche Market

– Highly efficient process, but complicated

– Processing costs

–CONSUMER PREFERENCES

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Is Demand For Grass-Fed Beef Growing?

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Google Insights

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What About Corn?

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Why Are Prices Rising?

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Super Official Data-set

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Actual Data

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Should We Eat Meat?

Ethical Considerations, Land Usage, Sustainability, Methane Emissions

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Ethical Considerations

• Do we have a right to kill animals?

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The Reaper is Coming

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Animal Deaths

• Steven L. Davis, May 25th, 2002– 1.8 billion animal deaths estimated if 100% of US

farmland was dedicated to grain– 1.4 billion animal deaths if half of land was

pasture (with large herbivores), half grain

Citation on my blog if you’re curious

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The Ugly Truth

• If we can eat it, it used to be alive.

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We Could Put Hilly Land to Use

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Environmental Considerations

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Predicting Catastrophe

• A 1972 MIT study predicted the exhaustion of ALL copper, lead, mercury, natural gas, oil, silver, tin, tungsten and zinc by 2000. – Did that happen?

• In 1972, they estimated global reserves of 455 billion barrels untapped. Since then we have harvested 1 trillion barrels.

• Obviously they made some faulty predictions

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Economic Growth has its Upsides

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Why Am I Telling You This?

• As Economic Pressures Rise, We Develop New Tech

• … And We routinely underestimate How Fast

• Your choice: Richer people, less babies, and more tech, or global enforced depression

• So Relax.

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Data from NASA

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All decomposition created equal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenesis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanogenesis
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What We Covered

• What Makes Grass-Fed Special?– More efficient and healthier

• How is it different from Grain-Fed?– Less inputs, more humane

• Economic Considerations– Demand driven, possibly a growing market

• Should we eat meat?– There’s more important things to worry about

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Further Reading:

• “Good Calories, Bad Calories” - Gary Taubes• “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” Michael Pollan• “The Paleo Solution” by Robb Wolf• Anything by Robb Wolf, really.• “The Limits of The Limits to Growth” Reason.org• Full citation list online at

http://www.jnconkle.com/?p=121

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