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Whitetail populations are completely out of control and they’re doing a dance with climate change to drive the surge in tickborne illnesses and it’s really time to discuss returning them to the food supply in a thoughtful way to offset beef
My downfall will be people deciding I’m a quack farmer because my proposed solution to global meat addiction is teaming up cultured meat and a restoration of managed wildstocks to the meat supply...
There are wildstocks all over the world that indigenous people are expert at managing, and I don’t think it’s remotely absurd that reductions in domestic, heavy feeding livestock could be offset by resurgence of an indigenous-sourced semi-wild meat supply...
and the refinement of cultured meat technology to fill lopsided demand for things like lean trim without leaning ever harder on intensive livestock production...
Q: B-b-but what if cultured meat takes over and obliterates the entire market for domesticated life stock of any kind?...
A: I don’t care. My collective can protect land and water and make a living growing vegetables, hominy, flour, honey, tree crops, oilseed, kelp, shellfish, etc. This is the delightful resilience you enjoy as a land-protector/ehakihet rather than a hawker of Commodity X...
And we’ll enjoy even more resilience being integrated, controlling all the value-add on those products so we can tune them to consumer demand instead of hoping some a-hole at Cargill will productify our commods for us and, pleeeease massah, give us a right good price
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If half America’s ranchers failed as a result? So what. Return the stolen ranges to their original inhabitants to restore wild bison and pronghorn and the environments that sustain them so they can reintegrate into the web of food, water, soil, and life...
Get ruminants the Hell off tame pasture in the east and concentrate them in areas where soil is degraded and they can have a positive impact on soil carbon sequestration...
Keep low-impact, efficient-conversion livestock like poultry and pork and eggs and goat for their fertility and ability to mimic natural processes like fire without the side effects, and to keep inefficient domestic ruminants offset...
In other words, incorporate the low-impact products of settler ag tech into the broader aegis of indigenous management systems - leveraging natural patterns/resources, using collective ownership, integrating the food supply, operating at scale, utilizing trade to fill gaps...
That’s what innovation in broadscale sustainable, restorative agriculture would look like. @ImpossibleFoods and @BeyondMeat are not revolutionary. They’re just White guys hunting for new fortunes in the booming business of managing decline in late-stage capitalism /THREAD
