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Sustainable Livestock Farming
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Sustainable Cattle Farming
Policy
POLICY
Data Labeling
Date Labeling
Harvesting
Preparing
Tax Incentives
Tax Breaks
Storing
Animal Feeds
Animal Feeds
Food Scraps
- Given to Animal as feed for centuries
- Stopped in the 1980's after Mad Cow outbreak
- Most States except 2 has regulations on what can and can't be fed to livestock
Factory Farming
- Food grown specifically for livestock
- 36% of Corn grown world wide
- 75% of Soy grown world wide
- Pesticides and fertilizers seep into waters and soil
Impact
Impact
- 36% of food world wide is for animals
- 33% of agricultural land is for animals
- All the land for animals in the US can be used to to feed 800 million people
- 80% of food for livestock isn't edible to people
- 6-20 kg of grain needed to raise 1 kg of beef
- Cattle have difficulties digesting grains
SUSTAINABILITY
SUSTAINABILITY
Raise Animals Humanely
Closed Loop System
Produce Better Products
Industrial Farming
Closed Loop System
Closed Loop
VS
Industrial
- Needs of one element is used by the waste of another
- Match animal to land size
- Rotate Species
- Multi-Species Grazing
- Divorce animals from plants, deplete soil nutrient and create excessive animal waste
- Fossil Fuels to transport feed and waste
- Pesticides and Herbicide used
- Confined Space
Challenges
ROADBLOCKS
JBA USA
Tyson Food
175,000 Cattle per week
$16 billion in sales last year
Subsidiary of the worlds largest processor of beef and pork
$50 billion in sales last year
Corporations
Cargill
National Beef
8 million cattle a year
$120 billion in annual sales
$8 billion in sales
4th largest beef processor
- Monopoly on the Beef Industry
- Drive down prices for ranchers and feedlots
- Drive up prices for Beef
- High Risk for regional or national outbreak
Regulations
Regulations
- "Grass fed, Grass Finished, Pastured, Free Range" used to describe live stock is not regulate by the FDA
- Requires Third Party Certification like Animal Welfare Approved or NOFA Certified Grassfed
Distribution
Building their own requires a big investment
Lack of Independent Processing Plant
Labor Intensive
Expensive Land
Land + Labor
High Prices
Innovations
Bean Hollow Grassfed
Aloha House
GOALS
- USA
- Bolster Biodiversity
- Multi-Species Grazing
- Cattle and Sheep graze together
- Only sells locally
- Philippines
- Raise cattle, goat, hogs and chicken
- Use animal power, manure and other byproduct to grow vegetable
Works Cited
https://foodprint.org/issues/raising-animals-sustainably-on-pasture/
https://smallfarms.cornell.edu/2019/01/add-diversity-to-your-pastures-with-multispecies-grazing/
https://foodtank.com/news/2020/03/28-innovative-livestock-farmers-who-are-shaping-the-future-of-protein/
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/09/17/yup-80-of-our-beef-comes-from-4-producers.aspx
https://www.ncsl.org/research/agriculture-and-rural-development/fighting-food-waste.aspx
https://policyfinder.refed.com
https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/nes/fao-sets-the-record-straight-86-of-livestock-feed-is-inedible-by-humans/
https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/livestock-feed-and-habitat-destruction/