Livestock farmers- views on climate and ruminants

[Hilly]

There are studies of soil carbon right through from the mid 1800s, which help inform us about the health of our soils, and their capacity to maintain, and even continue to accumulate carbon from organic matter now, and into the future. Soil dynamics, and soil biomes are nowadays being studied at minute scale. I find it all amazing, tbh. Just wish that the scientists weren't as modest about their important work as they are, but I suppose their humility is indicative of their honest methodology, and their careful accumulation of knowledge across more than a century. They certainly don't jump to conclusions.

Id like to think they are carefull etc and dont jump to conclusions! I just worry about all this as im sure you like alot more see all the lies out their today to suit certain agendas etc its made it very difficult to know what to believe and what not to believe.

 

[Macsky]

The thing that separates livestock and crops from the rest is that there production also sequestrates carbon.

Surely it wouldnt be too hard to swing the whole ‘livestock production takes up sooooo much land’ argument to ‘meat is atmospheric carbon-condensed!’

‘Since beef production is such an “inefficient” way to produce food (it took up all these acres photosynthesising), you can eat this steak and feel mm mmm good that you have helped remove 1million tonnes of pesky carbon from the atmosphere’

it’s all mad

 

[primmiemoo]

Id like to think they are carefull etc and dont jump to conclusions! I just worry about all this as im sure you like alot more see all the lies out their today to suit certain agendas etc its made it very difficult to know what to believe and what not to believe.

One or two things heard and overheard today makes me feel that scientists who are at the grass roots of research into farming's carbon cycle feel that there's a need to correct what has been nudged and promoted from [cough] error of interpretation [cough], too. I just hope that the couple of farming journalists I saw have got the right end of the stick should they choose to report on that side of today's proceedings. It isn't easy to unlearn something that's become as though it's common knowledge. There are still people giving talks who haven't yet caught on to the importance of using measurements for our ruminants that acknowledge their place in the living biome of planet Earth instead of measurements which lump them in as carbon emitters just like internal combustion engines, or gas flares from oil wells.