Allan Savory: this video blew my mind

[redanimal]

At the start of the video he says "I have for you a simple message that offers more hope than you can imagine", and I think he could be right.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI

Edited by redanimal on Tuesday 12th March 20:46

[iim]

Thats pretty stunning if true - and I have no reason to doubt it or at least his conviction that it'll save the world.

[Devil2575]

Interesting and warrants further investigation. He kind of ducked the question at the end though, what did the livestock eat when he first introduced them onto land with no vegetation?

[redanimal]

Devil2575 said:

Interesting and warrants further investigation. He kind of ducked the question at the end though, what did the livestock eat when he first introduced them onto land with no vegetation?

I thought he seemed to be saying they just ate what grass there was to be found. He said they had been doing it for a long time now and the only time they had EVER had to provide any feed was doing mine reclamation where it's 100% bare. Many years ago they took the worst land in Zimbabwe and offered a £5 note to whoever could find one grass in a one hundred mile drive, and in the first year they trebled the stocking rate without using any feed, just using movement mimicking nature.

[Devil2575]

That's what I heard but it didn't make much sense.

[redanimal]

Devil2575 said:

That's what I heard but it didn't make much sense.

I know what you mean. Like, if there's just one tuft of grass you can get a whole herd of cattle to live on it? But the proof of the pudding is in the eating and he has the results to back it up, as we see from the photos.

He also said something about using a "sigmoid curve", and it being a bit technical to go into here.

Edited by redanimal on Wednesday 13th March 22:17

[iim]

Surely all you need to do is for the first year put some feed in troughs for the cattle and let them poop and pee till there hearts content all over a swathe of the land then, the following year, hey presto!