Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World: How Regenerative Grazing Can Restore Soils and Stabilize the Climate

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of our globalised food system and highlighted the need for local and regional supplies of healthy meat. Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World outlines a hopeful path out of our broken food system via regional networks of regeneratively produced meat. Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger's Big Picture Beef model has increased participating farmers access to wholesale markets and offers multiple benefits for the health and wellbeing of consumers, the environment, and livestock. Regenerative grazing can restore degraded farmland, protect against droughts and floods, increase biodiversity, combat climate change, and contribute to regional economic development.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 16 February 2023
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co

The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of our globalised food system and highlighted the desperate need for local and regional supplies of healthy meat. We must replace industrial feed models, which are responsible for significant climate emissions, nitrogen pollution, and animal suffering.

Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World outlines a hopeful path out of our broken food system via regional networks of regeneratively produced meat. In 2017, Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger went to market with Big Picture Beef, a company that partners with farmers across the northeastern United States to provide high-quality, 100% grass-fed beef. Their model has increased participating farmers' access to wholesale markets, and their holistic grazing management techniques offer multiple benefits for the health and wellbeing of consumers, the environment, and livestock.

In Grass Fed-Beef for a Post-Pandemic World, you'll find information assembled from the fields of ecology, climate science, nutrition, and animal welfare, along with stories from Ridge's travels as a consultant on farms all over the world. You'll discover how regenerative grazing can:

• restore degraded farmland
• protect against droughts and floods
• increase biodiversity
• combat climate change by reducing emissions and sequestering carbon
• contribute to regional economic development
• produce nutrient-dense, healthy meat for consumers

Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World is not just for beef producers, but for anyone wondering how our farmers can raise cattle while caring for the local and global environment.

Weight: 254g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781645021247