It’s Not the Cow It’s the How | Bobby Gill | TEDxBigSky
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Published 2020-02-13
"Eat less meat! Get rid of all livestock!" It's the war cry for the environmentally-conscious, but what if we're accidentally destroying our global grasslands in the process? In this thought-provoking talk, Bobby Gill of the Savory Institute discusses the symbiosis between grasslands and grazer, and why everyone -- regardless of dietary choice -- depends on properly-managed livestock for regenerating these dying landscapes. To learn more about the Savory Institute, visit www.savory.global/
Bobby Gill leads development and communications for the Savory Institute – a non-profit teaching farmers, ranchers, and pastoralist communities across the globe to regenerate the world’s grasslands with Holistic Management.
Whether it be the Maasai in Kenya, gauchos in Patagonia, sheepherders in Norway, or cowboys in the American West, the Savory Global Network has trained land managers of all types to utilize the land-regenerating potential of Holistic Management within their cultural and ecological context. Since 2009, Savory has begun regenerating over 25 million acres of desertifying grasslands to address the root cause of food, water, and climate security. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
All Comments (21)
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This speech deserves way more than 62k views. Especially the EV & impossible burger activists, they don't understand that they are buying into marketing that's highly detrimental to our environment. All of them said they care, but few actually bothered to learn. Great presentation~!
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In the 70s in Rhodesia we were teaching our farmers to use the Savory system to keep our natural bush healthy. And it worked in every aspect.
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Thank you for putting this out there! The savory institute is why I'm planning in entering agriculture as my career/passion with focus on regenerative agriculture
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There ought to be 8 billion likes on this TEDx Talk.
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Please continue featuring the people and work of the savory institute! Great and important work! Thank you Bobby!
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This is the most succinct talk I've found on the Savory method. Great Talk!!!
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We would love to turn our farm from ecological into holistic management, but we are getting older and need younger generations, thank you for sharing.
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Really intelligent argument. Well done. We need to think more intelligently about our soil.
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Such a great talk, short and clear. Our future lies in the hands of regenerative agriculture.
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Excellent work. I’ve been saying livestock is great for the soil but it’s hard to get anybody to listen, well done sir.
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Thank you Bobby Gill for putting passion back into our ego systems✨️🙌🏻🫶🏻👍🏻👏🏻✨️I just watched you on a podcast with Debra Silverman, and then I searched and found this Ted Talk! Thank you from my heart! We all need a little patch of Heaven and return to being the caretakers that we are granted to be here on Earth 🌎 🙏🏻
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We are 1st generation farmers who practice regenerative farming and love tending to our soil, using plants and ruminants to heal our land. We only have 40 acres, though. This is a barrier to our expansion in doing our part. Land is $9,000 per acre around us, with a requirement of 30% down...by the time we save enough, it will be time to retire from farming. Farmers around us have no interest in this type of agriculture. They prefer to do it the way it has always been done. I would love to see a solution to the barrier to entry.
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This is a really inspiring talk. Awesome work Bobby!
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This is truly amazing. I fully support this philosophy.
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Excellent talk. Wonderful to have a positive message and a clear example of how working with the ecosystem has such a productive result
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Absolutely love you people. Keep it up and don't stop the work. It's the vegan churches you need to change the minds of. They've been changing the face of the land and the minds of the public for decades about meat and the we eat.
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Incredible talk. it gives hope that our civilisation will find the force to shift the paradigm to overcome the epidemiology obstacles. We need to take action right now !
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Really inspiring!!! I've started to work with holistic management to be like the farmer from Georgia. Greetings from Argentina!
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YouTube is hiding this video. I can't believe it only has 20k views in a year.
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Oh, the beautiful Maasai. They're such magnificent people.
