CattleMan1920
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Lately the articles about fake meat are coming on strong. Just recently Burger King rolled out a meatless burger (failed to mention what went into the cheese, mayo, and bun, cause that sure wasn't vegan, or ethically sourced animal products) along with White Castle and others. The prevailing sentiment among the writers and the wealthy Silicon Valley backers of fake meat is that cattle are BAD NEWS! Get rid of cattle, and the planet will survive. Never will you hear, "people are to blame for pollution, so therefore we need less humans" that is a far too uncomfortable discussion to engage in for the masses.
Now as you can see by reading my posts, I'm no stranger to controversy and I tend to respond to the authors of these articles with logical, thoughtful responses, not attacks. I try to see where there can be a meeting of the minds, a way where both products can coexist. So far, no meaningful dialogue.
I had a section of our farm that was not grazed over the past few years, I mow it down, but that's all, I've noticed Broom Sage developing along with invasive weeds, but that's not the case with areas that are rotationally grazed, they look green and very vibrant. The argument by the fake meat camp is that cattle destroy the land, but I would beg to differ, I think suburban sprawl, concrete, and shopping centers screw things up far more than cattle could ever begin to achieve in multiple lifetimes. Pastures absorb carbon, paved shopping centers and subdivisions, not so much.
The real, hidden agenda of the fake meat camp is MONEY. Plain and simple, they wish to disrupt the cattle industry just like they disrupted taxis with Uber, brokerages and banking with ETrade, and the list goes on. Cattle and agriculture are in the cross hairs of some people that have vulgar amounts of capital and know how to use it to destroy an industry, that being cattle. They don't give a sh.t about saving the planet, otherwise they would be tackling the plastic situation, i.e. whales dying because they are full of plastic bags, landfills full of plastic, etc.
Will the cattle industry fail overnight?, probably not, people love their beef, will it cause problems for cattle producers, I'm pretty certain of that happening in the near future.
I'm going to start writing more articles on Medium and other platforms to take the other side of the trade, so to say. We as cattle ranchers need to protect this INCREDIBLY important industry, but not through attacks on the media, we need to show the population as a whole that ole Bessy Bell helps the land, that beef can be produced ethically, and that the horrid factory farm conditions do NOT have to be the way animals are raised.
People are going to have to pay up for ethically grown beef if they want a better planet. People are to blame, not the animals for the destruction of the rainforest. It is the insatiable appetite for all things "cheap" that has given the factory farms a green light to ruin the family farm. I can go on and on, and it will become a rant, but like I said, I'm going to stand up for an industry that I believe in, and so should you, by writing articles, posting photos of your beautiful well cared for animals, lush pastures and showing the world that not all meat comes from factories and rainforests.
If you stand by idly, the fake meat camp will eventually demonize all that you have come to love about cattle. They are relentless in their writing as you should be as well.
Now as you can see by reading my posts, I'm no stranger to controversy and I tend to respond to the authors of these articles with logical, thoughtful responses, not attacks. I try to see where there can be a meeting of the minds, a way where both products can coexist. So far, no meaningful dialogue.
I had a section of our farm that was not grazed over the past few years, I mow it down, but that's all, I've noticed Broom Sage developing along with invasive weeds, but that's not the case with areas that are rotationally grazed, they look green and very vibrant. The argument by the fake meat camp is that cattle destroy the land, but I would beg to differ, I think suburban sprawl, concrete, and shopping centers screw things up far more than cattle could ever begin to achieve in multiple lifetimes. Pastures absorb carbon, paved shopping centers and subdivisions, not so much.
The real, hidden agenda of the fake meat camp is MONEY. Plain and simple, they wish to disrupt the cattle industry just like they disrupted taxis with Uber, brokerages and banking with ETrade, and the list goes on. Cattle and agriculture are in the cross hairs of some people that have vulgar amounts of capital and know how to use it to destroy an industry, that being cattle. They don't give a sh.t about saving the planet, otherwise they would be tackling the plastic situation, i.e. whales dying because they are full of plastic bags, landfills full of plastic, etc.
Will the cattle industry fail overnight?, probably not, people love their beef, will it cause problems for cattle producers, I'm pretty certain of that happening in the near future.
I'm going to start writing more articles on Medium and other platforms to take the other side of the trade, so to say. We as cattle ranchers need to protect this INCREDIBLY important industry, but not through attacks on the media, we need to show the population as a whole that ole Bessy Bell helps the land, that beef can be produced ethically, and that the horrid factory farm conditions do NOT have to be the way animals are raised.
People are going to have to pay up for ethically grown beef if they want a better planet. People are to blame, not the animals for the destruction of the rainforest. It is the insatiable appetite for all things "cheap" that has given the factory farms a green light to ruin the family farm. I can go on and on, and it will become a rant, but like I said, I'm going to stand up for an industry that I believe in, and so should you, by writing articles, posting photos of your beautiful well cared for animals, lush pastures and showing the world that not all meat comes from factories and rainforests.
If you stand by idly, the fake meat camp will eventually demonize all that you have come to love about cattle. They are relentless in their writing as you should be as well.