Reddit reviews Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making

You are wrong.

http://www.amazon.com/Grass-Productivity-Conservation-Classics-Voisin/dp/0933280645

http://www.amazon.com/Holistic-Management-Framework-Decision-Making/dp/155963488X

http://www.amazon.com/Salad-Bar-Beef-Joel-Salatin/dp/096381091X

Feel free to learn about the subject.

The crux of the issue is that there is an enormous amount of embedded energy in the feed that is brought to a CAFO (Concentrated Animal Feedlot Operation). Grass grown on the ground has none, needs no inputs aside from cattle management, and grows in places that nothing else is suitable to be grown, doesn't need to be watered in most cases, and doesn't need to be sprayed or planted.

Hay has a tiny amount of embedded energy, but the manure that results from the production of hay can be returned to the ground, at a much lower energy cost than commercially produced and distributed fertilizers.

I assure you that I am not oversimplifying things and that there is an intense amount of research that has gone into this process.

If you are interested, this is the book where he explains his ideas.

And this is the workbook, laid with military precision step by step