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Cattle have benefits to the environment and our health. These benefits include sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, building essential micro-organisms in the soil to promote both soil and human health and discouraging the spread of fires.
The presence of large herbivores positively affects our beautiful island. Rebuilding soil creates nitrogen that takes harmful carbon out of the atmosphere.
When measured, grains and legumes are all staples in plant-based diets but are major contributors to diabetes and obesity. They are thought to have lower greenhouse gas emission than meats. Actually, they had a higher overall carbon contribution due to the low nutrient density of the food. It takes more quantity, more processing and more transportation of these foods to meet our nutritional needs. Less quantity of quality meat is needed to meet our body's health requirements.
Biological control of invasive plants and pests, as well as discouraging wildfires through replenishing grasses are just a few of the ways grazing cattle help build a healthy environment.
Natural ruminant fertilizer (waste) helps support the soil to include insects and bacteria that balance and rebuild the soil, as opposed to large-scale plant agriculture, which adds toxins and strips the soil of nutrients and beneficial microorganisms.
When the soil is stripped of nutrients, we have less nutrients in our food and also less land to use. It is speculated by some that we have only about 60 harvests left until plant-based soil exhaustion. Ruminant animals are a great solution to promote the health of our planet and our bodies.
Cynthia Monteleone
Lahaina