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100% Grass Fed and Finished Beef“Non-GMO option”
Ridge Shinn [email protected] www.ridgeshinn.com
Groton Wellness-GMO seminar June 5, 2014
97 million acres planted to cornruins soil health.
Plowed land allows carbon to be oxidized.
Monoculture, herbicides, pesticides, and chemical fertilizers
Destroy soil biology
Benefits of grazing vs. corn feeding:• Managed grazing restores biodiversity below the soil
line.
• Perennial pasture sequesters carbon.
• Cattle can graze even through snow, saving costs of supplemental feed.
• 100% grass-fed beef is healthy food for humans.
• Raised right, it is consistently tasty, tender and marketable.
Essential soil food web: now being destroyed
Root Hairs
• Bacteria• Fungi• Nutrients• Minerals
GMO corn fails the squirrel test
No GMO’s in grass yet (except Alfalfa)
90% of corn & soy in the US is GMO
Emeritus Professor from Purdue University
Don Huber says:
“He prefers DDT to Glyphosate”
Glyphosate works by starving the minerals in the soil that starve the minerals in the plant that starve the animal that eats the plant that starves the human that eats the beef.
Corn feeding: bad for the soil bad for the climate
bad for bovine health bad for meat eaters
Subsidized corn--allows “cheap” feedlots,ignores costs to health and planet.
100% Grass-fed beef= Stored Carbon
Perennial grasses keep soil carbon from being oxidized.And no grain means healthy cattle, healthy meat.
MOB GRAZINGIntense Grazing
Like the Buffalo
THENREST
Electric Fence
Consumersare paying for
grass-fed quality.
Demand 100% grass-fed beef
“Eating is an Agricultural Act.”Wendell Berry
100% Grass-fed Feedlot
Ridge Shinnwww.ridgeshinn.comRaising beef for human health and the global environment