Eat more meat and save the world: the latest implausible farming miracle | George Monbiot

Allan Savory tells us that increasing livestock can reduce desertification and reverse climate change - but where is the scientific evidence?It doesn't matter how often miracles are disproved; our willingness to believe in them remains undiminished. Miracle cures, miracle crops, miracle fuels, miracle financial instruments, miracle profits: the continued enthusiasm for these claims reflects the triumph of hope over experience.Here's another one: a miracle technique that allows us to reconcile our insatiable demand for meat with the need to protect the living planet. Better still, it proposes, eating meat could actually save the biosphere. A TED talk which makes this claim has been viewed 2.6m times. Continue reading...