at one time there millions of buffalo in the USA and Canada which fertilized and worked up the land with there hooves and they also had seeds in there poop that regrowth the grass lands , they also found out how well the elephants regorged the land with seed in there dung .

Quick answer- absolutely not. If anything, more cows seems like a main key for saving the world.

cows fertilize the fields when rotated .

Youre not allowed to criticise livestock raised with BAD practices (CAFO, soy/maize feeding, land clearing) without demonstating an understanding of how broadacre monocropping has already killed the soil and water quality

We also need to stop dumping chemicals on our land and vegetables.

These days you can't even buy medication that doesn't contain soy, it's everywhere. Just because it's so cheap it's been added to almost everything in the supermarket but the cows are getting the blame for deforestry.

Surely the same argument can be made to eat less plants if grown industrially. This will produce more carbon.

Cows destroying the world, B/S.

Nice to see more people catching on, next step solutions! I'm ready to herd cattle by the thousand fold, adaptively and holistically to regenerate desertifying lands, but alas, there's no support available, nor infrastructure either. Savory figured this out fifty years ago. Put that together with Gaia Theory, the soil-food-web, and the newer work on the soil-carbon-sponge, and we have a rational view of how climate conditions are mitigated. We know, but what it would seem we don't know, is how to appropriately take over the systems of government, finance and education in a way that is necessary to make ecological stewardship a reality. But hopefully the tides are shifting. "Using ruminant animals as herds is our only tool for countering desertification on a large scale" Savory. And right in line with that, desertification is the single greatest driver of climate instability on our planet. Local biology creates global ecology, and yes, the cow is our sacred partner in our ability to regenerate the Earth

The earth as a whole is a living organism per se, and to keep breathing, it needs less concrete, less asphalt, less synthetic fertilizers

I like a balanced diet of meat, dairy, eggs, seafood, vegetables, fruits, grains, nuts and legumes 😊

King Charles suggested cow masks and diaper's on cows LOL LOL

Talk to China not Canada

About time they are this discussion, years ago when we ate meat and vegetables, not food made in a plant, we were not overweight, since food made in factories everyone got fatter and sicker. Eat meat, cheese, eggs butter and milk, your body will thank you.

Eat more meat (for your health), build less cities

What is happening is there is no climate crissis and the land is being harmed by massive vegan mono cropping for human consumption! And humans getting sick from eating so heavy plant based! Make a regulation that all land must be used for regenerative ranching and put limit on how many plants can be consumed as the humans eating plants and mono cropping are cussing the damage!

A debate could have been more enlightening.

Public Health Collaboration = Meat/Dairy Industry PR Front

We do we never talk about rewilding the paved areas? The USA is carpeted with abandoned malls and business parks.

look how the world flourished during the dino age , higher Co2 levels and higher oxygen level 28 %.

The problem is how we industrialize all life. Cows are victims of our greed. Feed any animal the wrong type of food and it ill cause great problems with digestion. The answer is to raise them properly and kindly with proper food. The answer is regenerative farming practices… it is or actions that are problem… human need to industrialize and commodify life.

Hello. such a question is hilarious. Thanks for making the day. 😂

BTW. A lot of the factory feed in from plant byproducts.

You cannot mitigate the atmospheric carbon load from burning FOSSIL fuel by using the short term biogenic carbon cycle

Should of had John Kempf on the panel

Does the slurry tank system speed up the release of carbon?

No carbon, no vegetation, no oxygen..the more carbon, the more vegetation, the more oxygen...

carbon is the gas of life

I wonder, what the methane impact of cats ad dogs and their food is, and we do not even eat them, usually!

Short answer...No.

Nooooooooo they are not!!!

plant agriculture is the real problem, it is all about destruction of the soil, of the biodiversity, of ot ecosystems. cows developed together with the whole ecosystem, they are a part of the natural cycles. in the excrements of the cows live insects which are essential for the whole system. cows fertilize the grassland and due to grazing the land it keep it living. the methane "argument" is completely ridiculous. everywhere in the nature where you have anaerobic bacteria methane is produced - in the swamps, in the rain forrests, even in the trees are methane-producing bacteria. biogenic methane is part of the nature and it is exactly this nature that created our mild and livable climate. there is nothing wrong about nature producing methane because it is one system which just works - a system where due to various mechanisms the planet is both cooled and warmed to achieve a homeostasis and a stable climate. it is so ridiculous to blame nature or a part of nature such as cows for what we have done by releasing fossile based greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. that is just a complete nonsense!

I had cows 1 drinks 20-30 liter of water a day. In old days cows were on fields all day eating grass

No they're not

Are there any generational farmers on this panel?

People should eat plants especially supermarket ones😂 they are full with chemicals even when it's bio. I have a garden and you can't grow them without fertilizer and different substances. I can use cow poo 😊 because my garden is small but not on hectares.

Total nonsense

NO!!! Its a lie...