But the land theft that built ranching businesses is one of the main reasons Native peoples were killed, disenfranchised, and separated from traditional foodways in the first place. Fischer says there are no cattle native to this land. But bison nearly went extinct because of settlers’ desire to turn Native land into ranchland. As the movement grows, he says regenerative agriculture is showing consumers, who have long been told that meat consumption is inherently harmful, that the environmental impact has everything to do with the way cattle is raised. But Spanish and English colonizers brought cattle to the U.S., meaning there are no cattle native to this land.