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The COVID19 pandemic exposed the vulnerabilities of our globalized food system and highlighted the desperate need for local and regional supplies of healthy meat We must replace cornbased feedlots which are responsible for significant climate emissions nitrogen pollution and animal suffering GrassFed Beef for a PostPandemic World outlines a hopeful path out of our broken food system via regional networks of regeneratively produced meat In 2017 Ridge Shinn and Lynne Pledger went to market with Big Picture Beef a company that partners with farmers across the Northeast to increase access to wholesale markets while promoting holistic grazing management techniques The result Increased health benefits for consumers the environment and livestock This book compiles information from the fields of ecology climate science nutrition and animal welfare along with onthefarm stories from Ridges travels as a consultant all over the world It reveals that regenerative grazing can restore degraded farmland protect against droughts and floods increase biodiversity combat climate change by reducing emissions and sequestering carbon contribute to regional economic development and produce nutrientdense meat for consumers This book is for anyone wondering how our farmers and ranchers can raise cattle while also caring for the local and global environment It includes a foreword by Gabe Brown the bestselling author of Dirt to Soil