Nicolette Hahn Niman writes in The Atlantic about a previously undiscovered connection between grass-fed beef and the plight of the honeybee. It's good news for both ranchers/farmers and anyone concerned about wild pollinators: rangelands and pasture, the type of working landscape that grass-fed beef is raised on, provide critical habitat for wild honey bees and other pollinators.
This is according to a University of California at Berkeley study. They also found that wild pollinators provide 35 to 39 percent of California's pollination needs - a figure which surprised the authors.
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