Cows Versus Other Assets: When Wealth Has a Heartbeat
For thousands of years, wealth walked, grazed, reproduced, and fed families. Cattle were food, fertilizer, fuel, clothing, and trade all at once.
"Emigrants Crossing the Plains," 1872, by F.O.C. Darley and engraved by H.B. Hall is featured in "Picturesque America" Vol. 2, by William Cullen Bryant, 1872. Library of Congress. Public Domain
Everywhere I look right now, people are arguing on the internet about gold, silver, bitcoin, the dollar, the Fed, bubbles, and collapse. Is gold in a bubble, or is it the yardstick proving the dollar is? Is silver about to explode? Is bitcoin the future or just the ultimate speculation?
Mollie Engelhart
Author
Mollie Engelhart, regenerative farmer and rancher at Sovereignty Ranch, is committed to food sovereignty, soil regeneration, and educating on homesteading and self-sufficiency. She is the author of “Debunked by Nature”: Debunk Everything You Thought You Knew About Food, Farming, and Freedom—a raw, riveting account of her journey from vegan chef and LA restaurateur to hands-in-the-dirt farmer, and how nature shattered her cultural programming.
