The Case for Sustainable Meat: A Look at the Benefits of Sacred Cow Meat

LaYarantella: There is so much propaganda out there about meat that if you want to be able to think properly about this issue it's essential to get some education on how things actually work in nature. Sacred Cow shows why beef is not only not a terrible thing, as we've been told, that the future of our planet might even depend on it.

United Kingdom on Sep 18, 2023

Amazon Stephen R. C: Was a bargain that arrived on time & in great condition!

Japan on Apr 03, 2023

Banba: Clearly explains why we need to have cows and other grazers on our farms.
Clearly explains how they help save our grasslands and environment.
Clearly explains why we need the nutrition they provide.
Just read it with an open mind

Canada on Feb 19, 2023

Clair et LipideClair et Lipide: A l'heure où :

- les aliments gras, et surtout saturées, d'origine animale, ainsi que le cholestérol ont été diabolisés au tournant des années 50

- le slogan Manger Bouger martelé par les pubs (sur obligation légale) tient de la dystopie maternaliste

- Manger 5 Fruits ou Légumes par jour est une approximation grossière et même pas juste du travail de diététicien...et sans doute contreproductive

- où les gens se pâment pour les Zones Bleues où soit disant les peuples qui mangent plus de viande ont plus de centenaires

- où le slogan "on mange trop de viande" semble couler de source, sans réel consensus dessus

- où la viande de bœuf est devenue l'ennemi public numéro 1 de la planète (le fameux bœuf émissaire), sans réelle prise en compte (ou alors en le minimisant) du potentiel de capture de carbone des prairies, terres non cultivables en l'état

- où seule la B12 serait la seule carence vegane admise

Alors ce livre remet les pendules à zéro, et ce que l'on vous a vendu comme étant le consensus scientifique n'est qu'approximations, bruits de couloirs amplifiés et déformés ou même faussés (le...

France on Mar 18, 2021

AlanAlan: The science and wisdom in this book take you through what's broken with our mass production, profit driven, mono-cultural, farming systems and that path to ultimate destruction. But it also shows us there is hope for the future.

Smaller, bio-diverse, farms using greater, organic based, regenerative farming and grazing practices, and less chemical fertilizers and pesticides, to produce good healthy food, can survive and flourish and re-invigorate our rural communities.

The free range, pasture fed cow plays a vital role in getting the carbon out of the atmosphere and back into the soil to a greater depth (ie. 1-2 meters, instead of 20-30 centimeters), greatly increasing it's fertility, water holding capacity and the number of micro-organisms, necessary to grow healthy, sustainable food.

Since buying my small, run down farm in Tasmania 2yrs ago I've been tapping into the many resources (in Australia and around the world), out there to follow regenerative farming and grazing practices, to improve the bio-diversity of my soil. It's already paying dividends, my paddocks are thick and lush, and my cows are fat and happy. I rotate my whole herd as one group, around...

Australia on Nov 22, 2020

Nora: If there is one non-fiction book you read this year make it: Sacred Cow by Diana Rodgers & Robb Wolf. I would especially recommend it to anyone who is affiliated with the food industry or who at some time eats food (meaning all of us).

At a time when there is so much division and polarization in our country, these authors provide a reasoned approach to looking at why human beings have survived and thrived, until fairly recent history with the increase in diabetes, with a food source that is natural and local.

This book is written for: “an ethical omnivore concerned about the environmental impact of your food choices … a vegetarian or vegan but are considering eating meat again … familiar with how cattle can be part of a regenerative food system, but still worried red meat will kill you … if you are open to science, then this book is definitely for you.”

Filled with research study references, personal stories and client interactions (Diana is a registered dietician and Robb is a former research biochemist) this book can also serve as a launch pad to learn more about our local, regional and national food system.

My passion and hope to making...

United States on Aug 14, 2020

Melanie AvalonMelanie Avalon: I just watched the Lion King. In an eloquent and shockingly succinct dialogue, Mufasa explains to Simba the concept of the circle of life: how the lions eat the antelope, and the antelope eat the grass, and when the lions die, they become the grass. Simba’s mind is essentially blown. Little did he know that today we’d face vehement wars gone woefully awry, in which trying to hack the natural system has lead to something more akin to an elephant graveyard. I lament these wars, as I believe they come from a place of seeking truth, goodness, health, and least amount of harm. Yet they are often wedding to ideologies which blindsight us to the actual implications of our choices. Even worse, it can be hard to get a clear understanding even if you want to, as the majority of the rhetoric filters through the lenses of hidden agendas, which refuse to budge in the wake of truth.

Thank goodness for Sacred Cow.

If you are at all concerned with the sustainability of our present food system, and seek unbiased, non-cherry picked information concerning the actual implications of our farming systems on both our health and the future of our planet, this book is for you. Robb and...

United States on Jul 19, 2020