The Regenerative Ranching Racket

Of course, the location was once a real farm and the backstory was true about my grandfather-in-law, who immigrated to a Dutch dairy community in Wisconsin after enduring the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The part about us moving out there and buying fourteen cows to start our own dairy ranch… that was a lie. But that didn’t tip off the staff at Regeneration International, whose job isn’t exactly to ask hard questions when landowners tell them that their ranching operations are fighting climate change. I was inspired to “found” Happy Köe when I tuned into a video presentation for the launch of a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210619043046/https://www.organicconsumers.org/campaigns/boycott-big-meat" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Boycott Big Meat</a> campaign by the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210619043046/https://www.organicconsumers.org/news/vaccine-studies-debunked" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">anti-vaccine</a> Organic Consumers’ Association. With Regeneration International and several other partners, they were launching an interactive map of regenerative farms. Regeneration International defines regenerative farms as those that use “farming and grazing practices that, among other benefits, reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded soil biodiversity.” <a href="https://medium.com/@unpopularscience/the-regenerative-ranching-racket-fe6cce917a42">Website</a>