Beef still superior to ‘Meatless Mondays,’ according to data
Research suggests Americans are paying closer attention to what they eat resulting in a slightly healthier population but climate change has not slowed in the last two decades. What has improved since the inception of Meatless Mondays is efficiency in cattle nutrition, water use, land management, and overall footprint in both the U.S. and on a global scale. On Jan. 1, 2025, there were reportedly 86.7 million cattle in the U.S. national cattle herd. At ...
Cattle can be a first line of fire defense
Research tells us cattle removed an estimated 11.6 billion pounds of fine fuels from California rangelands in 2017. Removal of fine fuels – grasses, shrubs, weeds – changes wildfire behaviors by keeping fires smaller and reducing flame length. As fire seasons continue to be a challenge for the state and in the wake of the devastating fires in Southern California, more research needs to be done to explore every possible means to save people from ...
Threatened With Legal Action, State Makes U-Turn on Electric Truck Mandates
Pressured by legal action from seventeen states that would have been impacted, California has agreed to not just drop enforcement of its electric truck mandate, but to repeal it entirely. Following the governor’s 2020 executive order that banned the sales of new internal-combustion engine cars in 2035, the state Air Resources Board devised two years ago a “world-leading regulation to phase out the sales of medium and heavy-duty combustion trucks in California by 2036.” Read ...
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