07/06/2021
"Perhaps the most valuable lesson the public and private sector can learn from White Oak Pastures is that the answer to food security and climate-smart agriculture isn't technology alone, but technology combined with the wisdom of ecology. Technology in cooperation — not competition — with the natural world." - from the article titled The Biggest Ideas in Farming Today Are Also the Oldest by Amanda Little of Bloomberg
Amanda spent some time with Will Harris to learn how he left behind the destructive techniques of modern agriculture to chart a new path forward for the livestock industry. Will very candidly pointed out that if a person avoids meat because they don't want to eat a once-living animal, he respects that. Or if they just don't like the taste, "I get it," he said. "But if they tell me that they're opposed to eating meat because it’s inhumane or destroys the earth, they can kiss my ass.”
Read the full article here ⬇️
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-15/the-biggest-ideas-in-farming-today-are-also-the-oldest