I was annoyed to see that I accidentally hit the camera out of focus when I changed the battery halfway through. I hope it wasn't too distracting because I felt it wasn't severe enough to refilm and delay the video. THANKS! Plants ftw.
You worry too much about what other people eat. Real fat such as saturated fat is healthy, at least for some of us. If I eat a Steak, I want it to be good and fat. So you do you, boo.
@@shawndarling5855 Uses his voice for those that can't speak for themselves and takes the time off his days to do the research. He's more than words to many animals which I swore to protect just as I would protect a human. It doesn't take away from a man to be compassionate.
Brazilian here! When you go to the center-north of the country, you drive miles, miles and miles and all you see is cattle!!! Grass-fed cattle is destroying the Amazon!!!
People think the Amazon forests are cut down for lumber. While lumber is a profitable part of deforestation, the main purpose is to keep cattle and grow food for cattle on this land. I wish this fact would become more knowledge.
WOW A REAL LIFE GUY WHO ACTUALLY CAN SEE THIS?,, VIDEO PLZ? GIve it to activists for planet and footage purposes,, make sure its as much into the video your gona take MAKE IT IMPACTFUL IF YOU CAN,, drone would be even better,, like dis guy 4 min video (short videos even better,, tho miles and miles and miles not sure how you would do dat,, ITS IMPORTANT DO YOUR BEST dont fuss over it if its too complicated,, PLZ DO IT SO I CAN SHOW IT,, so we can use it like this guy he did amazing job for such a crappy short video he spoke with people around we didnt see inside pig farms,, but if we could use his footage and mix it with more info,, th-cam.com/video/ayGJ1YSfDXs/w-d-xo.html and put it into a short FULL VIDEO LIKE THIS BEST VIDEO EVER MADE th-cam.com/video/UcN7SGGoCNI/w-d-xo.html THE COW Industry Vs Planet, maybe as a name something like it
or like a 4 picture tshirt to put on moteefe.com/store/vegtee ,,, dammit it says vegan for animals i wonder if vegan for planet is accepted there :(,, guess i might still have to keep searching for smarter tshirt place
Your government needs to be answer about that corruption, becouse they know about the damage, but still they do it for money, they need to be taking to the international court for crimes against to all humanity,
I've lived most of my life in rural Hawaii. At one point Hawaii island had the second largest cattle ranch in the USA so the cattle industry is huge here. We have cowboys, rodeos, and some of the stop signs used to say 'whoa'. Cow life on pasture land striipped of native flora appears to be idyllic, however every so often the babies are rounded up and they and the mama's cry all night long. It's so incredibly mournful and desperate. Then the calves are loaded onto barges and spend weeks being shipped to the mainland. I can't imagine the conditions. From there they go to feed lots until slaughter. We just had a nearby dairy close. The constant infractions were awful. I drove by once on my way to a trailhead. The conditions looked cruel standing around in their own feces. It would probably still be going strong if not for one of our representatives who lived fairly nearby the operation constantly getting methane reek wafting through her home. I rescued two tiny calves once from a rancher who gave them to me because they were getting rid of some cows presumed to be barren and these little guys, Mocha and Latte, were going to be left to starve. They were in a sorry state. One had a deep maggot infested wound. They were dehydrated and could barely stand. The rancher suggested Gatorade and they perked right up. I also dealt with the wound. I knew nothing about raising cattle but bottle fed them and eventually when they were unruly teenagers I ran out of enough fenced space and gave them to a friend to use as mowers or moo-ers. So they had a wonderful life having calves of their own until they were eventually actually rustled! I can't imagine their fate. I also lived briefly in Arizona where the cattle 'graze' or actually starve pooping all over the parks and their waterways.Then these emaciated cows are rounded up and fattened up in feed lots. A horrendous life. Odd how cattle have created an entire culture around their demise.
I grew up in Arizona and backpacked all over the state. There was not a single acre of National Forest land that didn't have cattle on it. And you are exactly right, they are all skinny as hell. The ranchers will sink a well into the area right above a natural seep and pump out all the water for the cattle. This impacts all the wildlife that relies on those seeps. I worked at a summer camp in the mountains while I was in college. The camp is surrounded by National Forest land that had grazing leases on it. Inside the fence around the camp the grass was pretty lush even though the deer easily jumped the fence to eat this good grass while on the outside the ground was barren with hardly a single blade of grass or any other plant that cattle can eat. We were constantly dealing with these hungry cattle that would push down the barbed wire fence to get at the grass.
@@papparocket yes so our experience is similar.... I wondered if things had changed since that was 20 years ago for me but apparently not. I was.working for the state parks at the time creating environmental ed curriculum except we were required to use the term interpretive education because ranchers had designated seats on the state board dealing with lottery $ expenditures and environmental was a buzz word.
@@papparocket I live in Northeast iowa we have cattle farms all around me. I have seen cows get close to the fences but never knocked any over. This one couple where I live had well over two thousand maple trees. A few of us would get permission to go on the property tap the trees and make our own syrup. The couple decided to move to Florida. This vegan couple bought the property and cut down all the trees and had the hills flattened. In the end they turned once was beautiful forest into a animal sanctuary. They stand in the pasture in their own shit, they shit in the nearby trout stream. They charge admission to see these so called rescued animals. They hire ex convicts to work there and the guy who co owns it is a felon himself. Felons can't be together because they learn from their mistakes and they can plan crimes. I will rejoice when that shit hole goes out of business.
In my area we had a area it had 2,500 maple trees. A vegan couple bought the property first thing they did was they cut every single tree down. They started a animal sanctuary they needed the land so the so called rescued animals could graze. When the wind is right the stink comes right into town. The methane gases released from that place is terrible. They have more animals than most beef farmers in the area. I started a petition in town to get them shut down. Because it is a sickening smell and I do taxidermy work.
Shawn Darling Another reason why people should stop eating animal products; sanctuaries wouldn’t be necessary if we didn’t forcibly breed billions of animals into existence to exploit and kill them.
@@ripelife2207 These vegans charge admission to see them. They say that the money is used for their care. They are nothing but a glorified zoo. The staff they hired are all ex convicts. The guy who runs it with his wife is a felon as well. He became a felon when he got convicted of theft. He was stealing my teenage boy's minnow and leech traps. They started a live bait farm and fishing tackle manufacturing business.
@@ToxicSmiles1 Watch and learn: th-cam.com/video/6VkfiC_d6cw/w-d-xo.html - raising cattle in Biebrza and Narew marshes in Poland CONSERVES the environment, preserving natural habitat of thousands of wild species, most of them unique and endangered. Meanwhile Poland is the largest producer of beef in Europe, AND successfully reintroduced bison into the wild.
Too... Much... Logic... Can't... Stand... It... I like that you address the opposing arguments so you don't leave a lot of room for people to hide and say "ya but what about this" your videos are very well thought out and researched and you work in some humor. I'm concerned that we are still preaching to the choir and confirmation bias is still a huge problem. People more concerned about proving their side, lawyering and marketing than finding the truth and serving the greater good of humanity. It is concerning that regardless of awareness of environmental problems it will be a combination of not caring, poor priorities, weak conviction, money and corporations manipulating, making it near impossible to get anything accomplished. I'm going to keep doing my part and working towards the best possible outcome through business and those around me, but I know it is going to be a long trek. Keep up the good work.
@S P No. When I was 8 and found out meat=dead animal and I stopped eating meat as I thought even then it is a very sick idea to eat innocent beings. When I found out the truth about dairy and eggs I became vegan right after. I simply find it sick and crazy to consume others as much as for other people it is sick to eat dogs, cats (depending on the culture of course) or humans. Now that I am a vegan activist and saw how humans treat animals it makes me wonder even more how sick humans can go.
ya wake up and realize that being vegan is hurting your heath. You cannot get all your vitamins from plants alone. We came from chimps. Chimps are omnivores. They eat plants and insects. We wouldn't of evolved without animal foods in our diet.
Op Hs: Chimps hunt and eat Colobus monkeys, Bush Babies, small antelope, wild pigs and many other animals. Many humans do eat insects--and enjoy them. Herbivores also ingest insects & sometimes even small animals with their plant food. Funny how the most ignorant, irrational people always accuse others of their own faults. Chimps hunting & eating meat + Herbivores eating meat: th-cam.com/video/RQq93Q2txrs/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/TdTXaFtDqZE/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/5ezZNOWMLMo/w-d-xo.html Humans eating insects: th-cam.com/video/OZrfyd4Eiy0/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/0dhCNSODN6A/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/6W1OCnC5XXc/w-d-xo.html
Actually, we're scared for the health of people eating that diet, scared we will be responsible to healp pay their higher health care costs, and scared about how more meat-eating will accelerate global warming and the destruction of ecosystems (since a meat-heavy diet uses 10 times more land than an isocaloric vegan one, land that needs to be rewilded and reforested to help sequester carbon and save the health of the planet.
@@HealingLifeKwikly Bullshit. You're scarred veganism is failing its practitioners' health, as they abandon it in droves. Comparing pasture to cropland is crap, as cattle can graze on poor pasturage where not much would grow. As for the green argument, pasture-raised cattle increase soil fertility and help green the earth. Oh, and we're heading towards an ice age, not a warm spell but, for what it's worth, CO2 also helps plants grow.
Mic...👏 👏 ....well done. Very well thought out and researched. Amazing that people are looking for random, obscure “solutions” to livestock methane emissions when there is a very simple, healthy and compassionate option already available!!!
I'm right there with you SociallyAwkwardNerd! I've never even met a vegan because it seems that everyone in my life is a carnitard. We are on the "leading edge" of consciousness :D
So was it a good thing that we nearly drove the Bison to extinction in North America? Certainly their methane emissions would have been quite high when there were 50 million of them in the 19th century.
Back then, there was way more forest, and the bison helped to keep us from going into ice age. Now we have opposite problem, not enough forests and accumulated emission from fossil fuel, so we need more trees and less ruminants.
A type of farming called silvopasture is a type of agriculture that incorporates trees and animals. In terms of restoring the environment, it makes sense to incorporate animal grazing throughout the great plains because that’s what the ecosystem has been doing for 1,000’s of years before American manifest destiny. The larger issue throughout midwestern agriculture is crop monoculture which erodes the soil, decreases biodiversity and leads to nitrogen runoff and algal blooms from fertilizers
The labeling of meat should be revised like the dairy industry went after plant milk. Pig turns to Pork Cow turns to Beef This is deceptive to children especially
Sir, you had me at greenhouse gas math. They don't call them ruminants for nothing. I am curious to see if the omega 3 fatty acid content is better ... just curious. WOW ... sticking to my flax and chia seed lmao.
I wish when I was in school they gave information and showed videos like this. I feel like “Mic the vegan” should be a class my kids can take now. Bring this information to our public schools as our children are being fed poison for free in the school lunch programs. Knowledge is power. Let’s bring attention to it. I wanna make some kind of movement. You’ve changed my life. This is one of my favorite channels. Thank you for all that you do.
The methane is 3.3 times more for grass fed. Ok. Which results in a lot more co2. Ok so where have you accounted for the pollution from the agricultural machines that harvest and process the grain please?
Absolutely love your videos! Thank you for putting in so much work getting this research out there! I would be lost without you! So much bs to weed through out there.
Why do people insist on believing that there are farms full of thousands of happy, grazing cows and chickens running around the yard but don't realize that no one has ever seen these magical places anywhere?
When the IPCC, the Lancet, Harvard, Oxford Martin and the GEO published through Cambridge University all say Vegan diets are best for the environment. It takes some strong Meat-tardation to say 🤔☝️"But what about grass fed! They must have forgotten seaweed and that old de-bunked Ted talk. Grass fed beef that's the answer"
@Dennis you dont have to buy any soy to be vegan. Also as far as Monsanto goes, they also make a huge profit off of growing feed grain... a large portion of what we grow is feed for livestock so I imagine they support that. As well as pharma also sells massive amounts of drugs to livestock industry. All that b12 in your beef, they get that from b12 injections, its fortified just like cereal and milk.
@Cave Beast LUL, nah.. you're not triggered at all. You only made a troll account named Cave Beast, subscribed to nearly every vegan/plant based channel and turned upload notifications on just so you could be right on time to leave your ever so delightful comments that I'm sure are meant to spark an intelligent conversation full of depth and meaning.
The "grass fed beef is good for you" trolls are everywhere. Animal ag moguls spend billions on advertising. Paying dumbasses to shit post is child's play, and mere pocket change to them. PS - Heme iron is heme iron. Doesn't matter how you think the animal lived or died. It is a carcinogen.
its strange, as an agroecology student there are so many people that support "regenerative grazing" and see alan savory as some sort of genius???? Even ecologists can't let go of their flesh fetish.
It doesnt make any sense why a cow would be naturally carcinogenic just cuz its red meat. Their predators wolves, big cats or whatever use to hunt them should all be dropping dead of cancer if thats the case. Think its more to do with the preservatives... And I have been eating saturated fat (not transfats) my whole life and im as skinny as a vegan and fit. Even if cattle are speeding up global warming (which im very dubious about) im still not going to sacrifice my health for it. Well done for referencing everything but im not going to necessarily trust the WHO. When i eat meat im physically stronger, feel better and has less ailments. Listening and watching how your body reacts is way more scientific that these 'facts'.
Well Mike..... I think you are freaking awesome for doing the research and putting all of the information together for use and sharing this kind of informative content. I share it and hope to make others aware, because if you don't know, you don't know. But damn, when you do know there is no excuse. Vegan for the animals
There's one on nutritionfacts.org Moderate drinking is worse for health than not drinking at all and the reason the confusion arose is because the researchers didn't separate our former drinkers who may have quit due to health problems from people who never drank. When you separate those out, not drinking is healthiest.
@x x I was vegetarian and lactose intolerant since birth. All I had to do was flip the switch and go vegan. And I wasn't calling the taste disgusting, the method of production( brutal slaughter of sentient beings) is disgusting
@Cave Beast would you think tying up a human upside down and slitting their throat so they die drowning in their own blood is disgusting? Why would you not apply the same thing to an animal?
Not to mention the millions of wildlife killed in terrible ways by our own gov’t, to protect the cows and the resources they require. And the 50,000+ wild horses rounded up by the gov’t, as well, that will probably end up being destroyed in one way or another. Great video Mic.
Grain "finished", grass "finished". What is that, like finishing a peace of furniture with lacquer ? All the wording everywhere is made to appear like they are always referring to some inanimate object(or non-sentient).
This is a video that all vegans need to watch a few time and understand. The few rounds I have had in the boxing ring with meat eaters on this topic have also involved land erosion, they claim free range cows are necessary for soil blah blah blah something. They also mention that cows can graze on non arable land. My memery goes blank there, lol. Great video :)
The counter argument to the non-arable grazing is that they are assuming that we will need the same amount of farmland to grow veggies as we do for meat, when in reality we will need 10 - 15 times less land. That non-arable land can return to wilderness
Thank you for doing all this hard work on translating complex science into fun videos and educating millions of people. If there was a SuperVegan comic book, it should’ve been drawn from you :))
@@garypack1709 How is life with cholesterol induced dementia? He links citations in the descriptions of his videos. Feel free to read them if you actually want to educate yourself instead of talking out of your ass.
Trolls incoming....Awesome video Mic.....ps, love the part about chia vs. dead cow too....I chia everyday (in addition to hemp seeds, ground flax seeds etc.)
Love to make overnight chia pudding with vanilla soymilk. It is like eating dessert for breakfast. And the meatheads think that being vegan is to live a life devoid of the pleasure of eating. Silly meatheads.
Vegan channels are for vegans only. All critics of veganism stay the fuck away. But vegans are on animal agriculture, hunting and fishing videos and they say they are the voice of the voiceless.
@@shawndarling5855 The animals are also on the animal agriculture, hunting, and fishing videos. Dead usually. The animals have no choice or choice. A few million vegans speaking up is still a small percentage of the silent suffering of billions of animals.
@@FrozonNinja See I am in the hunting,fishing,and trapping industry. Ten years ago I used to have a channel on TH-cam but I had to pull it. The vegan/animal rights community first just sent hate messages then they turned into threats of violence against my family, friends and myself. My teenage boys started a live bait farm and fishing tackle manufacturing business. They are just local and have small mail order for their lures. Once again our local vegan/animal rights community went online and they all gave them poor reviews so it would hurt their business. My oldest son is out of school so he has no problems but my youngest son is still in school. His science teacher and principal belong to the vegan/animal rights community in our area. At least twice a week she talks about how his business is destroying the environment right in front of the class and she calls him a racist and the other students who are children of those in animal agriculture. He has even been suspended from school a couple of times for speaking his mind to her. But at least they are doing something with their lives at a young age. That science teacher's kids all they do is go to protests around the country.
Question to the graph at 9:12 (land use) The factor between VEG (vegan diet) and BAS (standard american diet) is about 8.31, why does Mic say 6? Other questions. Why is it ha/(person*year) and not ha/person? A person has to eat every year and we use the land every year. So, why the year?
ggzh a The first part is a good point. I can’t even understand why you have a question about the second, though: it has to be measured via a fixed unit of time as people have different lifespans.
@icturner23 There is A, the amount of food 1 ha can produce in one year, lets say, 2 t/(ha*year). * There is B, the amount of food one person needs per year, lets say 1 t/(year*person). * To find out how much land a person need, you divide B by A, that gives you 1 t/(year*person) / ( 2t/(ha*year)) = 0.5 ha/person. There is no time anymore. The lifespan is completely irrelevant. A person eats every day**, independent of the lifespan. A field produces food every year**. If a field can grow 2t in one year, you can feed 2 persons for a year. After this year, the same field can grow another 2t for the next year, and the same persons can eat during the year. * The numbers are just examples ** Not always true, but we assume that to make it simple
Great data! Especially the chart showing slaughter age versus life expectancy! And the map of USA (lower 48) with representational land use areas. That should give anyone cause to pause and think. Thanks, Mic. As always, an excellent video!
I'm really bored of "grass fed" beef being used like it's some kind of "checkmate" against vegetarianism/veganism for the environment. I think most people don't really do real research, they just perk up when they hear something that backs up their lifestyle and then cling to that
Methane breaks down in the atmosphere after about 10 years, so although it's being produced in vast amounts, it doesn't accumulate and hang around forever. I'm not saying it's not a problem, just that it's not a total mind-boggling nightmare. If we stopped raising so many cattle, we could reduce methane in the atmosphere before too long.
Obviously there's no net reduction if new emissions completely replace previous emissions as they break down. But the short persistence relative to CO2 is all the more reason to actively influence everyone you can to reduce or eliminate beef from their diet. Anyone can simply delete their economic demand for beef *overnight*. No need to wait for politics, regulations, e-car infrastructure, etc. as with CO2 emissions from transportation fuel. Even if they can't quit meat, they can quit beef, and the industry will simply have to adapt. Industry obstructionist efforts would be futile in the face of all consumers just saying "nope, we're done with you."
Could you please make a video about monocultures' animal death tolls vs grass-fed free-roaming animal death tolls? I don't have the anwser to these anti-vegan critic...
The number of animals killed per X calories is in one of his much earlier videos on land use, or maybe it was on # of animals killed. Clear chart in that one--it's not even close.
I totally agree that we desperately need to decrease global meat production/consumption if we want to build a sustainable future and prevent catastrophic levels of AGW. However, the impact of livestock raised in a mostly natural setting, living on a grassland eating grass, is a more complicated issue than presented here. An area which is naturally a grassland will have grass growing, dying, and decaying. When grass decays it produces methane, whether this decay happens in a field or in the stomach of a ruminant. It remains an open question whether grazed or ungrazed grassland produces more methane, and more importantly which has a larger green house gas footprint. There are good reasons to think that a grassland with the optimal density of grazers may be more beneficial as they increase soil formation (carbon sink) and decrease fire risk (carbon source). Most grasslands evolved with huge populations of grazers (the American plains used to have ~20 million bison), so maintaining sustainable herds on them also makes ecological sense.
I've seen that claim before that grass will decay and produce methane, but never with a citation. It actually doesn't make sense, because methane is produced in anaerobic environments, and above-ground grass is an aerobic environment. If you have a scientific source for this claim, please provide it.
@@erictorbet8104 But I tend to agree with you, I suspect that a greater proportion of decomposition is anarobic with ruminant grazers than without. This has to be considered in conjunction with the other effects such grazers have on the GHG cycles. My point here was that it is still an open question whether or not a grassland with grazers is better or worse from a global warming perspective. I would also argue that one should also consider the ecosystem heath.
@@recurrenTopology Thank-you for that link, and it does say that methane would be produced in anaerobic environments. There may be circumstances where it's very rainy the grass for some reason dies, then it may rot and emit methane. But under normal circumstances, the grass will proceed through its life cycle, and when it dies it will brown and slowly decay aerobically. As to the question of whether grazers are beneficial to GHG, the answer is certainly no, as they produce more methane than they sequester carbon. This is fully elaborated in this comprehensive report: fcrn.org.uk/sites/default/files/project-files/fcrn_gnc_report.pdf
@@erictorbet8104 Thanks for the link, looks like an impressive comprehensive analysis. Unfortunate then that what is best for a healthy grassland environment seems to have a negative impact on GHG emissions. Though if we restricting ruminant livestock to holistic production on natural grassland, I would guess that the total number produced would be so much lower as to represent a huge decrease in GHG emissions.
Anybody old enough to remember "truth in advertising" laws, when I was a kid this was a legit concept that companies would get called out on. Its like we have no morals at all as a society. Thanks for shedding some light Mic!
@@lifesodd7717 Because increasing meat consumption is linked in step-wise fashion to more and more major chronic diseases (and we know how meat causes those diseases) and because saving the planet requires us to slash our consumption of animal foods. I don't know about you, but long-term survival seems like a solid motive to me. Take care.
@@lifesodd7717 Actually, the research is VERY clear that replacing more and more of the meat in your diet with whole plant foods reduces rates of disease and disease risks. One study found people who ate the most animal fat had triple the risk of dementia of those who ate the least. For essential tremors (the shaking older people get), rates of tremors were 21x higher amongst people with the highest meat consumption compared to people with the lowest. And heart disease (and thus heart attacks, strokes, erectile dysfunction and lots of case of eye diseases and chronic back pain) can be eliminated with a very low fat whole food plant based diet. If you read the research--as I do--the differences in health outcomes are truly life-changing. Take care.
When I used to report to local farmers that their cows were out and they laughed at me, thinking I didn't know cow was female...It was because when I told them their bovines were running down the road they didn't know what that meant.
Paul Saladino would never accept. For example, Paul Saladino always talk about linoleic acid... NEVER about arachidonic acid. Ask yourself why (this is just one example)
If we eat less meat - say a few ounces once a week - then pasture raised livestock can actually improve the soil and increase sequestration of CO2. But yes, at our current rate of consumption it's not mathematically possible.
Grass fed "beef" is a nice euphemism for grass fed cow. But they say grass fed "beef" to take away any sentience or the fact that this is a living being. Beef does not eat grass. It just lays there rotting, even when cooked.
I was annoyed to see that I accidentally hit the camera out of focus when I changed the battery halfway through. I hope it wasn't too distracting because I felt it wasn't severe enough to refilm and delay the video. THANKS! Plants ftw.
Awesome video i love how all your videos are backed up with facts and statistics not emotions and appeals to nature
You're lucky I'm in a good mood... Next time I'm unsubbing. :P
@Max GrassfedAt least not until after you milk them
Matthew Tao Wow what could he do without you his entire career would be over
You worry too much about what other people eat. Real fat such as saturated fat is healthy, at least for some of us. If I eat a Steak, I want it to be good and fat. So you do you, boo.
I'm a volunteer firefighter but, you sir, are a real Hero.
Period.
I am a volunteer firefighter and EMT myself. I don't call myself a hero this guy sure isn't one either. What great things has he done.
@@shawndarling5855 Uses his voice for those that can't speak for themselves and takes the time off his days to do the research. He's more than words to many animals which I swore to protect just as I would protect a human. It doesn't take away from a man to be compassionate.
WOW NICE COMMENT XD
@@up2nogod771 Boom.
And gets paid for it , partially from meat ads before his videos !
Where do I buy this Sugar-Free Plutonium now?
Matthew Tao makes your teeth shiny.
is it gluten free tho?
Brazilian here! When you go to the center-north of the country, you drive miles, miles and miles and all you see is cattle!!! Grass-fed cattle is destroying the Amazon!!!
É foda man
People think the Amazon forests are cut down for lumber. While lumber is a profitable part of deforestation, the main purpose is to keep cattle and grow food for cattle on this land. I wish this fact would become more knowledge.
WOW A REAL LIFE GUY WHO ACTUALLY CAN SEE THIS?,, VIDEO PLZ? GIve it to activists for planet and footage purposes,, make sure its as much into the video your gona take MAKE IT IMPACTFUL IF YOU CAN,, drone would be even better,, like dis guy 4 min video (short videos even better,, tho miles and miles and miles not sure how you would do dat,, ITS IMPORTANT DO YOUR BEST dont fuss over it if its too complicated,, PLZ DO IT SO I CAN SHOW IT,, so we can use it
like this guy he did amazing job for such a crappy short video he spoke with people around we didnt see inside pig farms,, but if we could use his footage and mix it with more info,,
th-cam.com/video/ayGJ1YSfDXs/w-d-xo.html
and put it into a short FULL VIDEO LIKE THIS BEST VIDEO EVER MADE
th-cam.com/video/UcN7SGGoCNI/w-d-xo.html
THE COW Industry Vs Planet, maybe as a name something like it
or like a 4 picture tshirt to put on
moteefe.com/store/vegtee ,,, dammit it says vegan for animals i wonder if vegan for planet is accepted there :(,, guess i might still have to keep searching for smarter tshirt place
Your government needs to be answer about that corruption, becouse they know about the damage, but still they do it for money, they need to be taking to the international court for crimes against to all humanity,
I'm ethical so I only buy grass-fed beef from cows who have done at least 100 hours of oiled up yoga
Ben Hopkins at least I don’t ship chia seeds across the world
What kind of oil we talking here? You are what you eat bro be specific.
Danika Larsen personally, I import mine from outer space. I have it air dropped on my front door step
skinny legend rare
I've lived most of my life in rural Hawaii. At one point Hawaii island had the second largest cattle ranch in the USA so the cattle industry is huge here. We have cowboys, rodeos, and some of the stop signs used to say 'whoa'. Cow life on pasture land striipped of native flora appears to be idyllic, however every so often the babies are rounded up and they and the mama's cry all night long. It's so incredibly mournful and desperate. Then the calves are loaded onto barges and spend weeks being shipped to the mainland. I can't imagine the conditions. From there they go to feed lots until slaughter.
We just had a nearby dairy close. The constant infractions were awful. I drove by once on my way to a trailhead. The conditions looked cruel standing around in their own feces. It would probably still be going strong if not for one of our representatives who lived fairly nearby the operation constantly getting methane reek wafting through her home.
I rescued two tiny calves once from a rancher who gave them to me because they were getting rid of some cows presumed to be barren and these little guys, Mocha and Latte, were going to be left to starve. They were in a sorry state. One had a deep maggot infested wound. They were dehydrated and could barely stand. The rancher suggested Gatorade and they perked right up. I also dealt with the wound. I knew nothing about raising cattle but bottle fed them and eventually when they were unruly teenagers I ran out of enough fenced space and gave them to a friend to use as mowers or moo-ers. So they had a wonderful life having calves of their own until they were eventually actually rustled! I can't imagine their fate.
I also lived briefly in Arizona where the cattle 'graze' or actually starve pooping all over the parks and their waterways.Then these emaciated cows are rounded up and fattened up in feed lots. A horrendous life.
Odd how cattle have created an entire culture around their demise.
I grew up in Arizona and backpacked all over the state. There was not a single acre of National Forest land that didn't have cattle on it. And you are exactly right, they are all skinny as hell. The ranchers will sink a well into the area right above a natural seep and pump out all the water for the cattle. This impacts all the wildlife that relies on those seeps. I worked at a summer camp in the mountains while I was in college. The camp is surrounded by National Forest land that had grazing leases on it. Inside the fence around the camp the grass was pretty lush even though the deer easily jumped the fence to eat this good grass while on the outside the ground was barren with hardly a single blade of grass or any other plant that cattle can eat. We were constantly dealing with these hungry cattle that would push down the barbed wire fence to get at the grass.
@@papparocket yes so our experience is similar.... I wondered if things had changed since that was 20 years ago for me but apparently not. I was.working for the state parks at the time creating environmental ed curriculum except we were required to use the term interpretive education because ranchers had designated seats on the state board dealing with lottery $ expenditures and environmental was a buzz word.
@@papparocket I live in Northeast iowa we have cattle farms all around me. I have seen cows get close to the fences but never knocked any over.
This one couple where I live had well over two thousand maple trees. A few of us would get permission to go on the property tap the trees and make our own syrup.
The couple decided to move to Florida. This vegan couple bought the property and cut down all the trees and had the hills flattened. In the end they turned once was beautiful forest into a animal sanctuary.
They stand in the pasture in their own shit, they shit in the nearby trout stream. They charge admission to see these so called rescued animals.
They hire ex convicts to work there and the guy who co owns it is a felon himself. Felons can't be together because they learn from their mistakes and they can plan crimes. I will rejoice when that shit hole goes out of business.
@janefreeman995 Cows are food not pets.
can we get "plutonium: it's sugar free" on a shirt please 😂😂
I literally thought "I need that on a tshirt" when he said that 😂
"Plutonium it's what's for dinner." It literally is in fish....
*the sass up against the grass* another excellent video to shamelessly leave on my Facebook wall. Thanks Mic.
Thanks for the share!
we love the queen Cassandra
When you learn what happens to the uneaten grass this video is stupid
Inspired by the recent _Vegan Gains exposing Frank Tofu-No_ arc
@x x I thought vegan gains had a husband
Much needed, thank you Mic!
HI roid boy
Hench Herbivore I love eating beef. And eggs. And milk. And butter. It’s so good!
@@billyray3565 Great, but no one cares little billy.
Kapitány Tutaj you clearly do :)
@@csorografikus Hill billy?
'finding right ways to do the wrong thing'. like when filter cigarettes were gona make it ok to inhale poison. we never learn
Also, water usage also increases with grass fed!!!
Yes. Huge.
In my area we had a area it had 2,500 maple trees. A vegan couple bought the property first thing they did was they cut every single tree down. They started a animal sanctuary they needed the land so the so called rescued animals could graze.
When the wind is right the stink comes right into town. The methane gases released from that place is terrible. They have more animals than most beef farmers in the area. I started a petition in town to get them shut down. Because it is a sickening smell and I do taxidermy work.
Shawn Darling Another reason why people should stop eating animal products; sanctuaries wouldn’t be necessary if we didn’t forcibly breed billions of animals into existence to exploit and kill them.
@@ripelife2207 These vegans charge admission to see them. They say that the money is used for their care. They are nothing but a glorified zoo. The staff they hired are all ex convicts. The guy who runs it with his wife is a felon as well.
He became a felon when he got convicted of theft. He was stealing my teenage boy's minnow and leech traps. They started a live bait farm and fishing tackle manufacturing business.
@@ripelife2207 So it was okay for them to cut down all those trees for those animals to graze.
Does this even need debunking? Sigh.
I didn't think so but I was just in Hawaii and it was RAMPANT.
No it doesnt We just need you stupid hippies to listen to it
pack wft
Unfortunately, it’s a huge argument by environmentally conscious people that still want to eat meat.
@@ToxicSmiles1 Watch and learn: th-cam.com/video/6VkfiC_d6cw/w-d-xo.html - raising cattle in Biebrza and Narew marshes in Poland CONSERVES the environment, preserving natural habitat of thousands of wild species, most of them unique and endangered. Meanwhile Poland is the largest producer of beef in Europe, AND successfully reintroduced bison into the wild.
Tim Shieff, you listening or nah?
On point--science and humor. Thank you. Always.
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Why?
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What do you mean with “It is not science”? 🤓🤔
There is no science in the video. Just an idiot crying about a made up problem called manmade climate change.
@@jackpleb2360 Looks to me you're the crying idiot. 🧐
Too... Much... Logic... Can't... Stand... It...
I like that you address the opposing arguments so you don't leave a lot of room for people to hide and say "ya but what about this" your videos are very well thought out and researched and you work in some humor.
I'm concerned that we are still preaching to the choir and confirmation bias is still a huge problem. People more concerned about proving their side, lawyering and marketing than finding the truth and serving the greater good of humanity. It is concerning that regardless of awareness of environmental problems it will be a combination of not caring, poor priorities, weak conviction, money and corporations manipulating, making it near impossible to get anything accomplished. I'm going to keep doing my part and working towards the best possible outcome through business and those around me, but I know it is going to be a long trek. Keep up the good work.
I just still have a problem with understanding why people think eating others is something that should be cultivated -.-
Because that's what nature does. Read a book once in a while or something. Maybe just watch a nature program.
It's because we're animals.
@S P No. When I was 8 and found out meat=dead animal and I stopped eating meat as I thought even then it is a very sick idea to eat innocent beings. When I found out the truth about dairy and eggs I became vegan right after. I simply find it sick and crazy to consume others as much as for other people it is sick to eat dogs, cats (depending on the culture of course) or humans. Now that I am a vegan activist and saw how humans treat animals it makes me wonder even more how sick humans can go.
@@swissladydriver8980 So?
@@banishedfromthedwarfplanet530 🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
Great video. I am so sick of hearing about grass-fed beef. People, wake up.
ya wake up and realize that being vegan is hurting your heath. You cannot get all your vitamins from plants alone. We came from chimps. Chimps are omnivores. They eat plants and insects. We wouldn't of evolved without animal foods in our diet.
Op Hs. You are in denial. Go eat some meat to get your brain working properly then come back and we can have a conversation.
@Op Hs just youtube "chimps eating meat". Its very easy to do.
Op Hs: Chimps hunt and eat Colobus monkeys, Bush Babies, small antelope, wild pigs and many other animals. Many humans do eat insects--and enjoy them. Herbivores also ingest insects & sometimes even small animals with their plant food. Funny how the most ignorant, irrational people always accuse others of their own faults.
Chimps hunting & eating meat + Herbivores eating meat:
th-cam.com/video/RQq93Q2txrs/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/TdTXaFtDqZE/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/5ezZNOWMLMo/w-d-xo.html
Humans eating insects:
th-cam.com/video/OZrfyd4Eiy0/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/0dhCNSODN6A/w-d-xo.html
th-cam.com/video/6W1OCnC5XXc/w-d-xo.html
Celia White: You are sick of hearing the truth about grass-fed beef and prefer lies.
Thank you for the work you do on these videos! The information you provide is invaluable.
And more than half of it is made up
@@garypack1709 Provide evidence or piss off.
@@garypack1709 Go put your head back in the sand mate 👋
@@jhunt5578Screw you limey ahole
Thank you, Mic, for doing what you do! You’re videos have played a huge role in my own vegan journey, a million times, thank you!
Vegans are scared shitless by the carnivore diet.
I love it.
Actually, we're scared for the health of people eating that diet, scared we will be responsible to healp pay their higher health care costs, and scared about how more meat-eating will accelerate global warming and the destruction of ecosystems (since a meat-heavy diet uses 10 times more land than an isocaloric vegan one, land that needs to be rewilded and reforested to help sequester carbon and save the health of the planet.
@@HealingLifeKwikly Bullshit. You're scarred veganism is failing its practitioners' health, as they abandon it in droves. Comparing pasture to cropland is crap, as cattle can graze on poor pasturage where not much would grow. As for the green argument, pasture-raised cattle increase soil fertility and help green the earth. Oh, and we're heading towards an ice age, not a warm spell but, for what it's worth, CO2 also helps plants grow.
Alaskan here, love that you use the term "lower 48." Have you been up here? That term is typically not used too much in the lower 48 :)
Mic...👏 👏 ....well done. Very well thought out and researched. Amazing that people are looking for random, obscure “solutions” to livestock methane emissions when there is a very simple, healthy and compassionate option already available!!!
I’m surrounded by non-vegans, and every time I even start to question my dietary choices your content slaps some much needed sense into me.
I'm right there with you SociallyAwkwardNerd! I've never even met a vegan because it seems that everyone in my life is a carnitard. We are on the "leading edge" of consciousness :D
You're an idi*t and you will start deteriorating soon!
When You make a video, You do it right. Nailed it.
So was it a good thing that we nearly drove the Bison to extinction in North America? Certainly their methane emissions would have been quite high when there were 50 million of them in the 19th century.
Back then, there was way more forest, and the bison helped to keep us from going into ice age. Now we have opposite problem, not enough forests and accumulated emission from fossil fuel, so we need more trees and less ruminants.
@@erictorbet8104 They roamed the great plains open spaces.
@@shawndarling5855 True, but there was more forest back then, regardless where the bison were.
@@erictorbet8104 You probably think have the dairy and beef farmers to thank for that. I know that in the 19th century there was a lot more trees.
A type of farming called silvopasture is a type of agriculture that incorporates trees and animals. In terms of restoring the environment, it makes sense to incorporate animal grazing throughout the great plains because that’s what the ecosystem has been doing for 1,000’s of years before American manifest destiny. The larger issue throughout midwestern agriculture is crop monoculture which erodes the soil, decreases biodiversity and leads to nitrogen runoff and algal blooms from fertilizers
Great, informative video! We need to keep putting the facts out there to combat all of the misinformation.
The labeling of meat should be revised like the dairy industry went after plant milk.
Pig turns to Pork
Cow turns to Beef
This is deceptive to children especially
Sir, you had me at greenhouse gas math. They don't call them ruminants for nothing. I am curious to see if the omega 3 fatty acid content is better ... just curious. WOW ... sticking to my flax and chia seed lmao.
I wish when I was in school they gave information and showed videos like this. I feel like “Mic the vegan” should be a class my kids can take now. Bring this information to our public schools as our children are being fed poison for free in the school lunch programs. Knowledge is power. Let’s bring attention to it. I wanna make some kind of movement. You’ve changed my life. This is one of my favorite channels. Thank you for all that you do.
Seaweed covered tofu in deep fried batter 😱
Yum
I missed you Mic!
Yet another incredible video. Thanks Mic!
Literally heard Allan Savory mentioned earlier today when Bobby’s perspective was talking to Jon Venus
The methane is 3.3 times more for grass fed. Ok. Which results in a lot more co2.
Ok so where have you accounted for the pollution from the agricultural machines that harvest and process the grain please?
Plutonium is actually really good on toast. And it's vegan.
Yes I agree all vegans should eat plutonium
Absolutely love your videos! Thank you for putting in so much work getting this research out there! I would be lost without you! So much bs to weed through out there.
"Resume head in sand." 🤣 Well done, sir, well done. 👏🏼
This is the sort of video that needs to go viral. I wish that even more people would see this!
Another needed video!! Thank you so much!
Great topic to cover, studying nutrition I hear the 'grass fed' line all the time! Great work 😁
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how do you highlight your name like that? thanks
Awesome video in time for earth day! Thanks so much for all you do!!!
YES, I was looking forward to this one!
Why do people insist on believing that there are farms full of thousands of happy, grazing cows and chickens running around the yard but don't realize that no one has ever seen these magical places anywhere?
When the IPCC, the Lancet, Harvard, Oxford Martin and the GEO published through Cambridge University all say Vegan diets are best for the environment. It takes some strong Meat-tardation to say 🤔☝️"But what about grass fed! They must have forgotten seaweed and that old de-bunked Ted talk. Grass fed beef that's the answer"
@Janko Sigh... What conspiracy theory are you trying to push?
@Dennis you dont have to buy any soy to be vegan. Also as far as Monsanto goes, they also make a huge profit off of growing feed grain... a large portion of what we grow is feed for livestock so I imagine they support that. As well as pharma also sells massive amounts of drugs to livestock industry. All that b12 in your beef, they get that from b12 injections, its fortified just like cereal and milk.
your body has to convert the omega 3 from chia tho which is not an efficient process.
Right but the goal is to avoid having too much omega 6 (too big 6/3 ratio)
Oh boy in before the triggered carnists.
But muh pork butts n taters!!?
@@linyenchin6773 Don't you mean chicka an ried rice?
Triggered carnists is redundant. Anti vegans are always trigglypuffs
@@isamuranable We don't need to be triggered because we know veganism always fails itself.
@Cave Beast LUL, nah.. you're not triggered at all. You only made a troll account named Cave Beast, subscribed to nearly every vegan/plant based channel and turned upload notifications on just so you could be right on time to leave your ever so delightful comments that I'm sure are meant to spark an intelligent conversation full of depth and meaning.
The "grass fed beef is good for you" trolls are everywhere. Animal ag moguls spend billions on advertising. Paying dumbasses to shit post is child's play, and mere pocket change to them.
PS - Heme iron is heme iron. Doesn't matter how you think the animal lived or died. It is a carcinogen.
I went vegan 4 days ago and I’m feeling great!! Thank you Mic!!!!!!
good to hear :)
are you still vegan? I went vegan 1 month ago and I feel like never going back
3 years strong here! Never quitting. Perfect numbers and healthier than ever :)
@Charles Auhrig haha!
its strange, as an agroecology student there are so many people that support "regenerative grazing" and see alan savory as some sort of genius???? Even ecologists can't let go of their flesh fetish.
The answer to great health is to eat meat from cows that SMOKE grass, not eat it.
GOOD ANSWER
Jakob S>> Weed day every smoke.
That’s why you buy grass fed and grass finished beef.
It doesnt make any sense why a cow would be naturally carcinogenic just cuz its red meat. Their predators wolves, big cats or whatever use to hunt them should all be dropping dead of cancer if thats the case. Think its more to do with the preservatives... And I have been eating saturated fat (not transfats) my whole life and im as skinny as a vegan and fit. Even if cattle are speeding up global warming (which im very dubious about) im still not going to sacrifice my health for it. Well done for referencing everything but im not going to necessarily trust the WHO. When i eat meat im physically stronger, feel better and has less ailments. Listening and watching how your body reacts is way more scientific that these 'facts'.
Doesnt rice produce a lot of methane as well.
NOOT NOOT PENGUINO Termites produce more methane than cows
Well Mike..... I think you are freaking awesome for doing the research and putting all of the information together for use and sharing this kind of informative content. I share it and hope to make others aware, because if you don't know, you don't know. But damn, when you do know there is no excuse.
Vegan for the animals
Hi Mic could make a video about the effect of moderate drinking or show some studies about?! Thank ulu
There's one on nutritionfacts.org Moderate drinking is worse for health than not drinking at all and the reason the confusion arose is because the researchers didn't separate our former drinkers who may have quit due to health problems from people who never drank. When you separate those out, not drinking is healthiest.
All beef is disgusting
@Cave Beast Because you're brainwashed.
@x x what you are cooking isn't "steak" it's flesh from tortured and massacred innocent animals.
@x x I was vegetarian and lactose intolerant since birth. All I had to do was flip the switch and go vegan. And I wasn't calling the taste disgusting, the method of production( brutal slaughter of sentient beings) is disgusting
@Cave Beast would you think tying up a human upside down and slitting their throat so they die drowning in their own blood is disgusting? Why would you not apply the same thing to an animal?
All animal "products" are disgusting.
Thanks for addressing all this "grass fed" psuedoscience Mike.
Visit an actual farm.
In before mr. “Senior scientist” Bart Kay makes a video about you
shut the fuck up charlie brown
soul in a body MECHANISM! MECHANISM! MECHANISM! Charlie Brown!
I believe he has promoted himself to Dear Leader Scientist.
WhO's ThE SenIoR ScIENTIST HeRe ChARLIE bROWn? YoU Can FuCk OFf!!!!
mick that prick
That's 13. mins I'll never get back. So much misinformation it's staggering.
Not to mention the millions of wildlife killed in terrible ways by our own gov’t, to protect the cows and the resources they require. And the 50,000+ wild horses rounded up by the gov’t, as well, that will probably end up being destroyed in one way or another. Great video Mic.
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Thank you for making this video. Hopefully this information can help people to open their eyes.
This is why people should support their local farmers.
You’re so beautiful: I just feel hypnotized looking into your eyes. Keep up the great content.
you people are fucking weird
Janko Is It your weird comment supposed to imply that Mic looks homeless?
Janko Well, weirdo is as weirdo does I guess.
Grain "finished", grass "finished".
What is that, like finishing a peace of furniture with lacquer ?
All the wording everywhere is made to appear like they are always referring to some inanimate object(or non-sentient).
@@ChronicleContent Are you ok there buddy ?
Good news for BAD habits. Love growing plants!
Of course a militant vegan would say this bull
Now this was a serious burn😂😂
Epic video Mic
Grass fed does not hide the amount of saturated fat in meat.
Thanks Mike sooo needed!!! now if we can find a way to get this info
deep down into the sand where all the heads are embedded :/
Does this mean that if we start growing lots of seaweed (for human consumption or otherwise), it would destroy the ozone?
This is a video that all vegans need to watch a few time and understand. The few rounds I have had in the boxing ring with meat eaters on this topic have also involved land erosion, they claim free range cows are necessary for soil blah blah blah something. They also mention that cows can graze on non arable land. My memery goes blank there, lol. Great video :)
The counter argument to the non-arable grazing is that they are assuming that we will need the same amount of farmland to grow veggies as we do for meat, when in reality we will need 10 - 15 times less land. That non-arable land can return to wilderness
They mean rocky and sloped hills that are difficult to plant.
What about the c02 sequestering of the soil of grain field compared to grassing field and the the amount of petroleum it takes to produce the grain
Thank you for doing all this hard work on translating complex science into fun videos and educating millions of people. If there was a SuperVegan comic book, it should’ve been drawn from you :))
CONGRATULATIONS on YOUR RESEARCH, KNOWLEDGE + SUBSCRIBERS
I love your videos so much. Dropping that knowledge in such a clear way💕
He makes most of it up you moron
@@garypack1709 How is life with cholesterol induced dementia? He links citations in the descriptions of his videos. Feel free to read them if you actually want to educate yourself instead of talking out of your ass.
@@kaylee617Try watching unnatural vegans video on him, she shows how he simply makes this stuff up
gary pack an HOW is unnatural vegan an ultimate authority?
@@garypack1709 can you point out any of the facts in this video which were made up?
Yes but what about corn and GMOs?
Trolls incoming....Awesome video Mic.....ps, love the part about chia vs. dead cow too....I chia everyday (in addition to hemp seeds, ground flax seeds etc.)
Love to make overnight chia pudding with vanilla soymilk. It is like eating dessert for breakfast. And the meatheads think that being vegan is to live a life devoid of the pleasure of eating. Silly meatheads.
@@papparocket excellent to hear, and agree on steakheads
Vegan channels are for vegans only. All critics of veganism stay the fuck away. But vegans are on animal agriculture, hunting and fishing videos and they say they are the voice of the voiceless.
@@shawndarling5855 The animals are also on the animal agriculture, hunting, and fishing videos. Dead usually. The animals have no choice or choice. A few million vegans speaking up is still a small percentage of the silent suffering of billions of animals.
@@FrozonNinja See I am in the hunting,fishing,and trapping industry. Ten years ago I used to have a channel on TH-cam but I had to pull it. The vegan/animal rights community first just sent hate messages then they turned into threats of violence against my family, friends and myself.
My teenage boys started a live bait farm and fishing tackle manufacturing business. They are just local and have small mail order for their lures. Once again our local vegan/animal rights community went online and they all gave them poor reviews so it would hurt their business.
My oldest son is out of school so he has no problems but my youngest son is still in school. His science teacher and principal belong to the vegan/animal rights community in our area. At least twice a week she talks about how his business is destroying the environment right in front of the class and she calls him a racist and the other students who are children of those in animal agriculture.
He has even been suspended from school a couple of times for speaking his mind to her. But at least they are doing something with their lives at a young age. That science teacher's kids all they do is go to protests around the country.
What about the emission from producing the grain, to feed them, plus defllorestation, and water waste.
One of your most potent videos Mike!
Question to the graph at 9:12 (land use)
The factor between VEG (vegan diet) and BAS (standard american diet) is about 8.31, why does Mic say 6?
Other questions.
Why is it ha/(person*year) and not ha/person? A person has to eat every year and we use the land every year. So, why the year?
ggzh a The first part is a good point. I can’t even understand why you have a question about the second, though: it has to be measured via a fixed unit of time as people have different lifespans.
@icturner23
There is A, the amount of food 1 ha can produce in one year, lets say, 2 t/(ha*year). *
There is B, the amount of food one person needs per year, lets say 1 t/(year*person). *
To find out how much land a person need, you divide B by A, that gives you 1 t/(year*person) / ( 2t/(ha*year)) = 0.5 ha/person. There is no time anymore.
The lifespan is completely irrelevant. A person eats every day**, independent of the lifespan. A field produces food every year**.
If a field can grow 2t in one year, you can feed 2 persons for a year. After this year, the same field can grow another 2t for the next year, and the same persons can eat during the year.
* The numbers are just examples
** Not always true, but we assume that to make it simple
Great data! Especially the chart showing slaughter age versus life expectancy! And the map of USA (lower 48) with representational land use areas. That should give anyone cause to pause and think. Thanks, Mic. As always, an excellent video!
I'm really bored of "grass fed" beef being used like it's some kind of "checkmate" against vegetarianism/veganism for the environment. I think most people don't really do real research, they just perk up when they hear something that backs up their lifestyle and then cling to that
the irony here.
Methane breaks down in the atmosphere after about 10 years, so although it's being produced in vast amounts, it doesn't accumulate and hang around forever. I'm not saying it's not a problem, just that it's not a total mind-boggling nightmare. If we stopped raising so many cattle, we could reduce methane in the atmosphere before too long.
Obviously there's no net reduction if new emissions completely replace previous emissions as they break down. But the short persistence relative to CO2 is all the more reason to actively influence everyone you can to reduce or eliminate beef from their diet. Anyone can simply delete their economic demand for beef *overnight*. No need to wait for politics, regulations, e-car infrastructure, etc. as with CO2 emissions from transportation fuel. Even if they can't quit meat, they can quit beef, and the industry will simply have to adapt. Industry obstructionist efforts would be futile in the face of all consumers just saying "nope, we're done with you."
Valuable info thank you. What would we do without you.
Could you please make a video about monocultures' animal death tolls vs grass-fed free-roaming animal death tolls?
I don't have the anwser to these anti-vegan critic...
You need on average 10x as much land for same amount of protein. That will kill many more animals. Add in Methane and it's a no-brainer
The number of animals killed per X calories is in one of his much earlier videos on land use, or maybe it was on # of animals killed. Clear chart in that one--it's not even close.
I totally agree that we desperately need to decrease global meat production/consumption if we want to build a sustainable future and prevent catastrophic levels of AGW. However, the impact of livestock raised in a mostly natural setting, living on a grassland eating grass, is a more complicated issue than presented here. An area which is naturally a grassland will have grass growing, dying, and decaying. When grass decays it produces methane, whether this decay happens in a field or in the stomach of a ruminant. It remains an open question whether grazed or ungrazed grassland produces more methane, and more importantly which has a larger green house gas footprint.
There are good reasons to think that a grassland with the optimal density of grazers may be more beneficial as they increase soil formation (carbon sink) and decrease fire risk (carbon source). Most grasslands evolved with huge populations of grazers (the American plains used to have ~20 million bison), so maintaining sustainable herds on them also makes ecological sense.
I've seen that claim before that grass will decay and produce methane, but never with a citation. It actually doesn't make sense, because methane is produced in anaerobic environments, and above-ground grass is an aerobic environment. If you have a scientific source for this claim, please provide it.
@@erictorbet8104 www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/mar-2-2019-the-goodness-paradox-secrets-in-poop-converting-carbon-to-coal-and-more-1.5037008/do-cows-produce-more-methane-than-rotting-grass-1.5037019
@@erictorbet8104 But I tend to agree with you, I suspect that a greater proportion of decomposition is anarobic with ruminant grazers than without. This has to be considered in conjunction with the other effects such grazers have on the GHG cycles. My point here was that it is still an open question whether or not a grassland with grazers is better or worse from a global warming perspective. I would also argue that one should also consider the ecosystem heath.
@@recurrenTopology Thank-you for that link, and it does say that methane would be produced in anaerobic environments. There may be circumstances where it's very rainy the grass for some reason dies, then it may rot and emit methane. But under normal circumstances, the grass will proceed through its life cycle, and when it dies it will brown and slowly decay aerobically. As to the question of whether grazers are beneficial to GHG, the answer is certainly no, as they produce more methane than they sequester carbon. This is fully elaborated in this comprehensive report: fcrn.org.uk/sites/default/files/project-files/fcrn_gnc_report.pdf
@@erictorbet8104 Thanks for the link, looks like an impressive comprehensive analysis. Unfortunate then that what is best for a healthy grassland environment seems to have a negative impact on GHG emissions. Though if we restricting ruminant livestock to holistic production on natural grassland, I would guess that the total number produced would be so much lower as to represent a huge decrease in GHG emissions.
Thank you so much for making this video, Mic! Keep up the good work! #pleasegoviral
But people don't eat grass fed beef for omega 3. Is there no study that says grass fed beef is bad for health?
An ancient food causing a modern disease 🤣🤣🤣
Anybody old enough to remember "truth in advertising" laws, when I was a kid this was a legit concept that companies would get called out on. Its like we have no morals at all as a society. Thanks for shedding some light Mic!
🐮🐎🐑 These animals are killed for us to eat, and boy do they taste delicious
But if we didn't eat them, they wouldn't need to be killed.
@@HealingLifeKwikly well why wouldn't we want to eat them, they taste delicious
@@lifesodd7717 Because increasing meat consumption is linked in step-wise fashion to more and more major chronic diseases (and we know how meat causes those diseases) and because saving the planet requires us to slash our consumption of animal foods. I don't know about you, but long-term survival seems like a solid motive to me. Take care.
@@HealingLifeKwikly love your politeness but I don't feel meat differences is going to change anything
@@lifesodd7717 Actually, the research is VERY clear that replacing more and more of the meat in your diet with whole plant foods reduces rates of disease and disease risks. One study found people who ate the most animal fat had triple the risk of dementia of those who ate the least. For essential tremors (the shaking older people get), rates of tremors were 21x higher amongst people with the highest meat consumption compared to people with the lowest. And heart disease (and thus heart attacks, strokes, erectile dysfunction and lots of case of eye diseases and chronic back pain) can be eliminated with a very low fat whole food plant based diet. If you read the research--as I do--the differences in health outcomes are truly life-changing.
Take care.
When I used to report to local farmers that their cows were out and they laughed at me, thinking I didn't know cow was female...It was because when I told them their bovines were running down the road they didn't know what that meant.
Yes, i could of have said steer, but I didn't know if those boys had yet been neutered.
It's nice that you "steered" them in the right direction and didn't let them cow you with their bullshit.
It’s so irritating when people try to make that distinction. Do the same people refuse to call a bitch a dog?
0:54 was that Frank Tufano reading the first sentence! … MIC THE VEGAN EXPOSED!
Please do a podcast with Dr. Paul Saladino
He won't cause he knows he will get destroyed
Paul Saladino would never accept. For example, Paul Saladino always talk about linoleic acid... NEVER about arachidonic acid. Ask yourself why (this is just one example)
@@botzer8817 Will look into that thanks :)
This video would have been useful a week ago in the youtube comments of Ed Winders' Tex talk.
If we eat less meat - say a few ounces once a week - then pasture raised livestock can actually improve the soil and increase sequestration of CO2. But yes, at our current rate of consumption it's not mathematically possible.
"But don't DON'T WORRY it gets way worse" 😂
Grass fed "beef" is a nice euphemism for grass fed cow. But they say grass fed "beef" to take away any sentience or the fact that this is a living being. Beef does not eat grass. It just lays there rotting, even when cooked.
excellent point, well said
@@veganfortheanimals6994 thank you!
@@bonchidude you;re welcome