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Ned Hamson

(13) Herding Cows with Kulning – YouTube

Using the ancient Nordic herding call “kulning” to herd the cows. Kulning is a high pitch voice technique that creates a sound that can travel through very far distances. It’s been used since the medieval age to call home the cows and the goats in the forest, and also to scare away predators like wolves and bears. #sweden #kulning #herdingcall #herding #nordicmusic

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Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News · (13) Herding Cows with Kulning – YouTubeUsing the ancient Nordic herding call “kulning” to herd the cows. Kulning is a high pitch voice technique that creates a sound that can travel through very far distances. It’s been used since the m…
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

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3 ways going vegan helped my anti-racism advocacy | Christopher Sebastian | TEDxTUWien youtube.com/watch?v=rVIzbOSPL5

A lecture by journalist Christopher Sebastian on the intersection between animal farming, eating meat, and racism. I've mentioned many of these topics above and there are a lot more writings out there.

I appreciate the emphasis on the culture war.

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Christopher Sebastian explores how historical ideas around race and species influenced racial violence and animal violence and how the rejection of animal products challenges racial hierarchies and white supremacy. The talk discusses the concept of a culture war, examining recent examples related to veganism and meat consumption. Video produced by: Apehouse www.apehouse.at Christopher Sebastian is a technical writer, journalist, and digital media researcher. He has also lectured at Columbia University, Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and Oxford. He writes about food, politics, media, and pop culture. Although his focus lies primarily in animal rights theory, Christopher includes perspectives from a variety of socio-political and economic backgrounds. As human and animal liberation frequently overlap, he says there is no reason to limit the scope of our knowledge to single-issue perspectives. Among others, Christopher examines current and historical connections between Black liberation and animal liberation in U.S. American culture and throughout the global west. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community
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YouTube3 ways going vegan helped my anti-racism advocacy | Christopher Sebastian | TEDxTUWienBy TEDx Talks
#meat#milk#animalIndustry
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Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich

How #uncertainty shapes #herding in the corporate use of artificial intelligence technology d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ulb:ulbe
…find evidence of significant epidemic effects in AI use
…uncertainty moderates epidemic effects
…an uncertain #AI use case reduces herd behaviours while uncertainty about use case returns favours them
…results highlight the importance of #exploration and collective #learning in the diffusion of emerging and complex technologies

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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"The infectious disease trap of animal agriculture"

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Conservation policies should be culturally sensitive, rigorously enforced, and have long-term community buy-in. However, a well-crafted conservation policy is still insufficient to spare land from agricultural pressures; additional land for rising populations and diets richer in animal-sourced foods must come at the expense of clearing native habitats somewhere.
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The largest increases in meat demand and production are occurring in developing, tropical regions. Meat consumption exceeds the dietary requirements in high-income countries and among increasingly urban and middle-class populations of most middle-income countries. As demand rises along with affluence in the coming decades in LMICs and high-income countries continue to sustain high levels of consumption and exports, additional land clearing and GHG emissions will occur even with ambitious levels of intensification.
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To meaningfully flatten the rising curve of animal-sourced foods, demand-side interventions should be implemented, tested, and scaled ambitiously. Even gentle changes to dining options and presentation can create large effects (64). Effective interventions range from these subtle “nudges” to more blatant rewards and incentives, as well as stringent regulations and restrictions. This spectrum has been described using the Nuffield intervention ladder, with lower rungs of “soft” methods or “carrots” (e.g., guidance, suggestions, education, and nudging) to higher rungs of increasingly forceful “hard” interventions or “sticks” at the top (e.g., taxes and bans).
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#conservation #climate #biodiversity #deforestation #zoonosis #zoonoses #animalfarming #pastoralism #herding #ranching #intensivization #extensivization #grazing #pandemic #CAFO

science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv

Higher incomes are associated with high meat demand that must be met through intensification or deforestation (or both). Intensification can trigger higher meat demand through lower prices, because meat demand is elastic with respect to its cost. Intensification and deforestation are highlighted in orange, as both have caused recent zoonotic disease emergence and are predicted to continue doing so. Intensification is colored by a gradient to indicate that intensification strategies lie on a gradient of helpful/neutral to harmful with respect to zoonosis risks.
A three-pillar approach for preventing zoonotic disease emergence and reducing environmental impacts from animal agriculture (center). Within individual circles and the intersections between the two, limitations of adopting only one or two strategies are described.
Requirements to produce 1 metric ton of meat (dressed carcass weight), averaged among all OECD countries and weighted by production quantity, base year 2010. (A) Hectares required for the production of animal feed (crops, pastures, and forages) in natively forested areas, calculated by the author from geospatial potential vegetation data and agricultural production data in (9) and sources therein. (B) Grams of antibiotics used, derived from (74). (C) Number of animals required for slaughter, from United Nations FAOSTAT (105). OECD, Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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VeganPizza69 ⓋⒶ

"Key Impacts of Livestock Production (not just grazing) Upon the Land."

Forage competition. Most forage on public lands is consumed by livestock, leaving little residual cover or food for native wildlife.
Livestock compact and trample soils reduce infiltration, creating higher run-off, flooding, and erosion.
Livestock is the West’s primary source of non-point water pollution non-point water pollution in the West.
Livestock destroys soil crusts that bind the soil and capture free nitrogen, making it available for plant growth. Soil crust also inhibits weed establishment.
Livestock are among the chief sources of weed dispersal. Also, the trampling of plants and cropping of desirable plants gives weedy species a competitive advantage.
Most of the West’s water is diverted for livestock forage production (i.e., hay). In Montana, for instance, 97% of all water is used by agriculture—chiefly to produce hay and alfalfa.
Livestock can socially displace native species like elk, deer, antelope, and other species that have been shown to avoid areas actively being grazed by domestic animals.
Livestock transmits disease to native species, i.e., bighorn sheep.
Predator and “pests” control, such as killing wolves and prairie dogs, significantly reduces the ecological integrity of the landscape.
Trampling of riparian areas negatively affects 75-80% of the West’s species that are riparian dependent.
Plant community conversion—grazing can lead to the eventual transformation of a place community—for instance, many areas are dominated by cheatgrass.
Livestock grazing contributes to increased fire severity because of the spread of the highly flammable cheatgrass.
Livestock grazing can interrupt nutrient cycles.
Livestock degrades the esthetics of the landscape—for instance, cow manure in many recreation areas like campgrounds.
Forage production on and off public lands destroys native plant communities. More than 80% of all US cropland, or approximately 300 million acres (three times the acreage of California), is devoted to livestock forage (corn, soy, hay) production, which has eliminated the natural communities.
Livestock affects many smaller native species that are seldom on the radar screen of most citizens, from snails to frogs to grasshoppers.
Livestock production is responsible for more Endangered Species than any other land use in the West.
Fences, water developments, and other structures used to maintain livestock operations negatively impact native species. I.e., fences block wildlife migrations, and fence posts may provide perches for birds of pretty to attack sage grouse. In addition, water developments used by livestock act as predator pits, attracting wildlife to water with little hiding cover making prey species vulnerable to predators.
Getting to the actual costs of livestock production is nearly impossible. The accurate price is uncountable. Even the public taxpayer subsidies are obscured by false and tricky accounting. If you fence a campground to keep cows out, it comes from the recreation budget, not the livestock budget. If you fence a spring to protect the water source, the cost is usually charged to the wildlife accounts.
Livestock is one of the major contributors to GHG emissions globally.
Public lands provide less than 4% of the forage consumed by livestock in the country yet have an overwhelmingly negative impact on the West’s ecological integrity. Eliminating livestock grazing is the most effective way to restore and heal the land.

thewildlifenews.com/2022/06/21

#biodiversity #climate #environment #ghg #herding, #ranching #cafo #animalfarm #sustainability #water

The Wildlife NewsKey Impacts of Livestock Production (not just grazing) Upon the Land.The ecological impacts of livestock production is significant and there is seldom a full accounting of these costs. Photo George Wuerthner  Livestock is responsible for more ecological damage to th…
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