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Unfortunately, Savory is a con artist. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/aug/04/eat-more-meat-and-save-the-world-the-latest-implausible-

Unfortunately, Savory is a con artist. http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/aug/04/eat-more-meat-and-save-the-world-the-latest-implausible-farming-miracle http://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2014/au...

xamolxix 12y ago
Thank you. It looks like a well documented article. Makes me sad to find this out.
- kevinbowman 12y ago
  Also interesting is that the Guardian article is by the same person (George Monbiot) as the OP video. Not saying that's good or bad, just worth noting.
meej 12y ago
I'm not convinced Monbiot is completely unbiased here. He still appears to be upset about how meat producers misrepresented his words [1] after he gave a favorable review to Simon Fairlie's _Meat: A benign extravagance_ [2], and it seems to be this position from which he attacks Savory. Savory's ideas are not terribly different from those of Joel Salatin, whose sustainable farming techniques are profiled in Michael Pollan's _The Omnivore's Dilemma_. Monbiot's arguments for why he recanted his review has more to do with the problems of currently prevalent meat production techniques than the techniques promoted by Savory, Fairlie, or Salatin. There is at least one rebuttal to Monbiot that cites several examples of Savory's techniques working in practice. [3] [1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/al-gore-veganism-eating-words-sceptical-meat-eating http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/al-gore... [2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/sep/06/meat-production-veganism-deforestation http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/sep/06/meat-pr... [3] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/19/grazing-livestock-climate-change-george-monbiot-allan-savory http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/19/...
ssf_berf_defm 12y ago
A message from Zimbabwe: regarding McPherson, Savory, Grasslands, Climate, Hope http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc ‪#‎defendingBeef‬
ssf_berf_defm 12y ago
A message from Zimbabwe: regarding McPherson, Savory, Grasslands, Climate, Hope http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc ‪#‎defendingBeef‬

xamolxix 12y ago

Thank you. It looks like a well documented article. Makes me sad to find this out.

kevinbowman 12y ago
Also interesting is that the Guardian article is by the same person (George Monbiot) as the OP video. Not saying that's good or bad, just worth noting.

meej 12y ago

I'm not convinced Monbiot is completely unbiased here. He still appears to be upset about how meat producers misrepresented his words [1] after he gave a favorable review to Simon Fairlie's _Meat: A benign extravagance_ [2], and it seems to be this position from which he attacks Savory. Savory's ideas are not terribly different from those of Joel Salatin, whose sustainable farming techniques are profiled in Michael Pollan's _The Omnivore's Dilemma_. Monbiot's arguments for why he recanted his review has more to do with the problems of currently prevalent meat production techniques than the techniques promoted by Savory, Fairlie, or Salatin. There is at least one rebuttal to Monbiot that cites several examples of Savory's techniques working in practice. [3] [1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/al-gore-veganism-eating-words-sceptical-meat-eating http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/27/al-gore... [2] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/sep/06/meat-production-veganism-deforestation http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/sep/06/meat-pr... [3] http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/19/grazing-livestock-climate-change-george-monbiot-allan-savory http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/aug/19/...

ssf_berf_defm 12y ago

A message from Zimbabwe: regarding McPherson, Savory, Grasslands, Climate, Hope http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc ‪#‎defendingBeef‬

ssf_berf_defm 12y ago

A message from Zimbabwe: regarding McPherson, Savory, Grasslands, Climate, Hope http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc http://goo.gl/YQs5Nc ‪#‎defendingBeef‬