TL;DR
- Beef already has too massive a baseline footprint to build a regenerative future on
- Shifting to plant-rich diets results in more food and higher carbon sequestration
- Wild ecosystems have higher and more stable soil organic carbon than pastureland
- Rain, temperature, geology, and previous land use determine soil organic carbon more than grazing techniques do
- Most grazing land is too arid to store meaningful amounts of soil organic carbon
- The regenerative case for beef relies on flawed studies without baselines or proper geographic controls
- Grass-finished cattle are still not wild ruminants
- Beef drives biodiversity loss, and even reducing grazing intensity doesn’t mean ecosystems recover