Critiques of Allan Savory
Analysis of Holistic Planned Grazing Theories:
- A global assessment of holistic planned grazing compared with season-long continuous grazing: meta-analysis findings (Hawkins 2017).
- Allan Savory’s holistic management theory falls short on science (Ketcham 2017)
- Don’t believe Allan Savory’s hype: cows will not save the planet (Mark 2017)
- Holistic Management: a critical review of Allan Savory’s grazing method (Nordberg et al 2016)
- Effects of short-duration, high-density stocking on soil properties and plant species composition of a mesic grassland in South Africa. (Chamane et al 2016).
- Holistic Management: misinformation on the science of grazed ecosystems (Carter et al 2014)
- Commentary: A critical assessment of the policy endorsement for holistic management. (Briske, et al 2014).
- Savory’s unsubstantiated claims should not be confused with multi paddock grazing. (Briske et al 2014).
- The Savory method cannot green deserts or reverse climate change. A response to Allan Savory's TED video. (Briske et al 2013).
- Origin, persistence, and resolution of the rotational grazing debate: integrating human dimensions into rangeland research. (Briske et al 2011).
- Range management in the face of climate change (Catlin et al 2011).
- Rotational grazing on rangelands: reconciliation of perception and experimental evidence (Briske 2008)
- Short-duration grazing research in Africa: an extensive review of the Charter Grazing Trials and other short-duration grazing studies on African rangelands. (Jamus et al 2002).
- The Donut Diet, The Too Good To Be True Claims of Holistic Management. (Wuerthner 2002).
- Short-duration grazing, the facts in 1999 (Holochek, et al 1999).
- Southern Africa’s experience with intensive short-duration grazing (Skovlin 1987).
Additional Reading
- Allan Savory's TED talk is wrong, and the benefits of holistic grazing have been debunked.
- Another Industry Attempt to Greenwash Beef
- Busting Livestock Industry Myths About Cows and Soil Carbon
- Cattle Grazing is Incompatible with Conservation
- Climate-Friendly Beef Is a Myth, Don’t Buy It
- Colonization, Food and the Practice of Eating
- Do grasslands act as a perpetual sink for carbon?
- Grass-fed Beef is Bad for the Planet and Causes Climate Change
- Grass-fed Beef Will Not Help Tackle Climate Change, Report Finds
- Grass-fed Greenwash
- Grazed and Confused
- A Green Marketing “Wild West”: Greenwashing in the Beef Sector
- Habitat-fed Beef: Grass-fed Beef and Sustainable Solutions
- How Big Ag Bankrolled Regenerative Ranching
- Magical Cows and the Colonization of Western Public Lands
- Nationwide shift to grass-fed beef requires larger cattle population
- No, Regenerative Ranching is Not Good for Grassland Birds
- Plant-Rich Diets
- Pro Grazing Pieces Don’t Do a Full Accounting of Livestock Costs
- Red Meat Republic
- Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers
- Shear Destruction
- Targeted Livestock Grazing Won’t Preclude Large Wildfires
- The Myth of Regenerative Ranching
- The True Cost of Cattle: a Street Roots Investigation
- There’s No Such Thing as Sustainable Beef
- Waste of the West
- Why Eating Grass-fed Beef Isn't Going to Help Fight Climate Change
- Why Regenerative Farming Works and Regenerative Ranching Fails