What percentage of domestic livestock herbivores does Salatin claim violate at least one of moving, mobbing, or mowing?

Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Joel Salatin | The Radical Farming Change That Could Save Humanity

17 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A short transcript of Joel Salatin arguing that healthy soils depend on prairie-like regimes of herbivores practicing ‘moving, mobbing, mowing.’ He critiques the conventional industrial animal-production model and rejects veganism as the sole solution, instead calling for changing production systems so animals function as soil builders. He references films critical of industrial agriculture but stresses production-model reform.

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The healthiest soils on the planet are under prairies with herbivores on top. The answer is not veganism. The answer is to change the production model. If you violate any one of those three moving, mobbing, or mowing, you turn the herbivore from an asset and a soil builder and an ecology facilitator into a liability. And the ugly truth is that 95% of all the domestic livestock herbivores on the planet violate at least one, and some violate all three of those, which then makes movies like cowspiracy and what the Hell when they're disparaging the conventional industrial food system. I'm saying Amen. But the answer is not veganism. The answer is to change the production model so that the animals do respect and honor the moving, mobbing, mowing that we see as a pattern in nature.