Look in the Mirror:
What do We Need to Change?
For those of you who follow my Twitter feed , you know I have been a little disgruntled about a paper that appeared in PNAS earlier this week. I think this paper may be the motivation behind a new documentary called " Cowspiracy " that Amanda Radke reported about on Monday. Jude Capper (a.k.a Bovidiva ) really takes this paper to tasks and points out some serious flaws in the analysis. In addition to ignoring beef's benefits as a source of nutrients such as iron and B vitamins, the habitat that ranches create for livestock, and the ability to turn arid rangeland into food, the authors also miss that cattlemen can be an ally to conservationists. But, Jude Capper and other have sufficiently defended the beef industry. In this post, I want to take this opportunity for us as a beef industry to collectively take a look in the mirror. What do we need to learn from this research? Despite errors in the analysis, should the beef industry decrease its use of feed grains? P