It’s interesting to me because of the part herd animals play in looking after our topsoil and our environment.
It also brings to mind Chief Seattle’s comment in 1854 – What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit.
As you’ll see from Allan Savory’s TED talk we may suffer from a lot more than ‘a great loneliness of spirit’ if we don’t address this. Having shifted from a vegetarian to a paleo diet 2-3 years ago I’ve come to a completely new appreciation of the ‘beasts’ from a very personal experience and to see this highlighted on a global level just drives the point home for me that we are intimately connected in our journey on planet earth.
The rest of the playlist is worthwhile watching over time: