Ask AI Mark explains regenerative agriculture: no-till farming, cover crops, crop rotations, and managed grazing. A regenerative beef burger has less environmental impact than a GMO soy burger.
The UN said that one of the very few ways that we have to quickly arrest and slow down and reverse climate change is using regenerative agriculture, which means the following. One, it's specific techniques of farming, so not tilling the ground, which erodes the soil, using cover crops so there's no bare soil so the soil can't wash away, using crop rotations that put different nutrients in the soil. It means no or limited use of chemicals and fertilizers. And it means special integration of animals through what we call holistic management or managed grazing or adaptive multi paddock grazing. And what in English that means is you take animals through mob grazing that are in tight herds and you move them frequently around different areas of the farm to graze down half the grass, to poop and pee, disturb the soil, that generates soil. That is the only way to generate soil. So, if you want to build soil, you can't do it without animals. And whether you're a vegetarian or vegan or not, it's just the way it is. And I think, you know, when you look at, for example, the life cycle analysis that was done by Qantas, which is an independent life cycle group, looked at a GMO soy burger, the Impossible Burger, compared it to a regeneratively raised beef burger. And the Impossible Burger was way better than a factory farmed burger for the climate change efforts, but a regeneratively raised beef burger was better. In fact, one Impossible Burger added 3.5 kilos of carbon to the environment, whereas a regeneratively raised beef burger took out 3.5 kilos. And that includes all the methane and everything, all the inputs, life cycle, total life cycle. So you have to basically eat one beef regenerative burger to offset the carbon emissions of a soy burger.
