"Graze Anatomy" - Excellent Article by Richard Manning

[Seth Itzkan]

Hi Friends,

I am extremely impressed with this article by Richard Manning and published in OnEarth magazine. 

Finally, all the points about restoring grasslands, sequestoring carbon, and creating sustainable economies are coming together.  The message is getting out.  Richard Manning, by-the-way, is author of the book Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization.

http://www.onearth.org/article/graze-anatomy

(Apologies for duplicate postings to those of you who are on multiple targeted lists.)

Graze Anatomy

by Richard Manning

ISSUE: Spring 2009, feature stories  |  February 27, 2009

Click for full-size image Todd Churchill's cattle munch on tall fescue and red and white clover. Alessandra Sanguinetti

The blueprint for an agricultural revolution (and a better burger)

Will Winter and Todd Churchill have a plan. It's simple, it's workable, and if enough people do it, it will shrink our carbon footprint, expand biodiversity and wildlife habitat, promote human health, humanize farming, control rampant flooding, radically decrease the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, and-for those of us who still eat the stuff-produce a first-class, guilt-free steak. Their plan: let cows eat grass.

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http://www.onearth.org/article/graze-anatomy

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Seth J. Itzkan