Graze Against The Machine

Grassroots Movement

Started by farmers, Graze Against The Machine grassroots movement is attempting to bring the true voice of farmers to the streets while shedding light on farm policies that favor Big Ag instead of small and under-served farms that do the right thing to support their local community and the environment.

What Farmers are Saying

Ashell Maenetja with white cow Guardian Angel
Ashell Maenetja
Communal Regenerative Farmer - South Africa
"Food security and accessibility through regenerative farming should be the backbone of every community to address social issues like poverty, crime & violence, unemployment, social inequality and climate change."
Mike Hansen with Pineywoods Bull Rocky
Mike Hansen
Regenerative Farmer - USA
"I humbly follow the guidance of my Native American friends Linwood (Haliwa-Saponi Tribe) and Chris (Creek Nation) to help me to a more natural way of farming. This has resulted in healthier animals, more nutritious native plants and a cleaner environment. I will never forget the day when Chris told me that our endangered Pineywoods Cattle herd were doing the important work for the environment that Bison did when they roamed the forests on which the farm is located"
Isabelle Blum with a herd of cattle
Isabelle Blum
Aspiring Regenerative Farmer - Switzerland
"When you live farming as craftmanship, embodied love and a school of patience and discernment, you sink deep into earth, its elements and cycles. Your farm becomes a birthing place of life itself."

What Graze Against The Machine Activists are Saying

Marcus Gregersen
Marcus Gregersen
Basketball player from Copenhagen, Denmark
"Most Danish farmers practice industrialized farming. I joined the Graze Against The Machine sticker tagging crew to spread awareness about regenerative farming in Denmark."
Terrence Ross
Terrence Ross
Bass Player, DJ from New York City, USA
"I support the #GATM movement because I believe in my community and bringing people of all walks of life together for a good cause and to help local farmers."
Tyler Van Dyke
Tyler Van Dyke
Street Art Advocate & Nola Art Walk co-founder from New Orleans, USA
"I support #GATM because I want our government to put their money where their mouth is. Our world is changing rapidly, we should utilize practices that sustain our collective environment rather than keep bandaging a sinking ship."
Dr. Sam Graber
Doctor of Regenerative Medicine from Pensacola, USA
"What we eat is the most critical choice we can make to not only heal ourselves, but to avoid the diseases being overfed yet somehow undernourished causes. Corporate greed has infiltrated every single aspect of our modern lives. It doesn't get more sinister than messing with our food and making us —the taxpayers— subsidize it. Current farming policy rewards depleting practices and penalizes those that align with the principles of nature. I am 100% Team Nature. It's time to take back choice. One way we can do that is by supporting farmers who put their efforts into regenerative practices instead of the too-big-to-fail practices our current farming policies force-feed them. One voice can easily be drowned out by catchy Big Food marketing jingles and bloated ad campaigns. But the voices of many who each see what is at work behind the corporate sleight-of-hand can never be silenced. #GATM is that collective voice; and I am proud to add mine to it."

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Indigenous communities around the world have used complex and honorable regenerative practices for thousands of years. They are the true keepers of the meaning of regenerative farming . We must listen to the wisdom they choose to share with us so we can learn what regenerative really means in order to adapt our farming practices to counter climate inaction and environmental destruction.  

Graze Against The Machine is grassroots movement started by farmers from Africa, Europe and North America in direct response to Big Ag hijacking farming for their own profit. The movement is also directed at the government entities that support farm policies that favor big corporate interests instead of small and under-served farms that are doing the right thing to support their local community and the environment.

The movement brings together farmers and activists on 3 continents and includes ways for you to take action, the #GATMStreets sticker-tagging campaign to combat misinformation and the voices of farmers and activists involved in taking back the power from Big Ag.

Lies and deceptive statements. The CEO of Bayer, producer of Round-Up, an herbicide proven to cause cancer (non-hodgkins lymphoma), recently proclaimed “Our portfolio will deliver future innovations with regenerative agriculture at the core…”. Bayer is interested in profits, not in promoting indigenous practices that can truly make a difference to climate and natures biodiversity. A grassroots movement like #gatm is one way small farms can compete with Big Ag's deception. Farmers need help combating the big budget misinformation marketing of Big Ag.

Farmers are tired to the point of exhaustion trying to counteract statements like Bayer’s and the huge Big Ag marketing budgets that help them spread disinformation about regenerative farming. We can't do it alone, we need YOU to join this grassroots movement.

Here are some ways for you to take action.



Books:

  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants – Prof. Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Indigenous Food Sovereignty in the United States: Restoring Cultural Knowledge, Protecting Environments and Regaining Health – Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah and Elizabeth Hoover
  • IWÍGARA: The Kinship of Plants and People, American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science – Enrique Salmón
  • Wisdom of the Elders: Honoring Sacred Native Visions of Nature – David Suzuki and Peter Knutson
  • Cherokee Plants: Their uses - a 400 year history. Paul B. Hamel and Mary U. Chiltoskey
  • Past Foods: Rediscovering Indigenous and Traditional Crops for Food Security and Nutrition. Kukuwa Abba
  • Hoofprints on the Land: How Traditional Herding and Grazing Can Restore the Soil and Bring Animal Agriculture Back in Balance with the Earth. Ilse Köhler-Rollefson and Fred Provenza
  • Plants, People and Places: The Roles of Ethnobotany and Ethnoecology in Indigenous Peoples' Land Rights in Canada and Beyond - Edited by Nacy J. Turner


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