Oct 8, 2026 · 13 min · 5 segments
Farmer Joel Salatin and Dr. Sina McCullough examine a new preprint claiming that organic grass-fed beef produces a larger carbon footprint than conventional grain-fed beef. Joel argues that the…
Joel SalatinHostSina McCulloughHost
This is such a, I'm so glad that you picked these up because they are such a perfect example of cherry picking data and not appreciating nuance.
The first, when I read through them, my first reaction was it's interesting that nobody's talking about nutrition.
It'd be interesting to see what would happen if they'd actually look at the cost of a microgram of folic acid.
For example, we've had our eggs, I'll give you an example, we've had our eggs tested.
And we participated with 12 other pastured egg producers in the U.S. when the study was done.
That's what's on a carton when you buy it at the store, you know, 48 micrograms per egg.
So, for example, instead of just measuring— kilograms of egg or protein if instead they had measured the cost of nutrition so imagine if in order to take an egg from 48 to 1038 micrograms of folic acid you had to eat what is it uh it's like it's like um 20 uh 25 times.
So if you had to eat 25 eggs, I mean, let's agree for a moment in the cage, you know, whatever, that they're more efficient, smaller carbon footprint, you know, in a production end of it.
Let's just assume that this is a correct study, that caged birds do emit less carbon footprint.
because they're more efficient, because they don't run around, you know, and they're more efficient.
The conversion of feed to egg is more efficient, all right? If you have to eat 25 of those eggs to get the nutrition of one pastured egg, what just happened to the carbon footprint? All the charts that are in these studies, they have a range.
This is such a, I'm so glad that you picked these up because they are such a perfect example of cherry picking data and not appreciating nuance.
The first, when I read through them, my first reaction was it's interesting that nobody's talking about nutrition.
It'd be interesting to see what would happen if they'd actually look at the cost of a microgram of folic acid.
For example, we've had our eggs, I'll give you an example, we've had our eggs tested.
And we participated with 12 other pastured egg producers in the U.S. when the study was done.
That's what's on a carton when you buy it at the store, you know, 48 micrograms per egg.
So, for example, instead of just measuring— kilograms of egg or protein if instead they had measured the cost of nutrition so imagine if in order to take an egg from 48 to 1038 micrograms of folic acid you had to eat what is it uh it's like it's like um 20 uh 25 times.
So if you had to eat 25 eggs, I mean, let's agree for a moment in the cage, you know, whatever, that they're more efficient, smaller carbon footprint, you know, in a production end of it.
Let's just assume that this is a correct study, that caged birds do emit less carbon footprint.
because they're more efficient, because they don't run around, you know, and they're more efficient.
The conversion of feed to egg is more efficient, all right? If you have to eat 25 of those eggs to get the nutrition of one pastured egg, what just happened to the carbon footprint? All the charts that are in these studies, they have a range.
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