069: Joel Salatin - Alternative Farming Using Modern Technology | Chickens Expressing Their Chickenness | Grain-Fed vs. Grass-Fed Beef
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2015
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
On this weeks episode, we are speaking with alternative farmer, Joel Salatin. He is a livestock farmer on his Polyface Farm, in Virginia. Joel uses modern technology to closely mimic the natural environment of his animals, putting them first. He was featured in The New York Times Bestseller, The Omnivore's Dilemma and the documentaries Food Inc. + Fresh.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Joel's alternative farming style vs. conventional farming
- Chickens expressing their chickenness, pigs expressing their pigness, and tomatoes expressing their tomatoness
- Just because we can, doesn't mean we should
- Cows are being fed chicken manure and carcasses
- Using modern technology to bring back a natural environment for the livestock
- 500 years ago the US grew more food than it does today without chemicals, John Deere, GMOs etc.
- There is a profound difference in nutrient profiles of grain-fed vs. grass-fed beef
- Chlorophyll is nature's detoxifier
- How to get people eating healthy & more sustainable food
- Food price is directly related to food processing
- The most expensive potato in the world
- Take out the middleman and buy from your farmers
- You are going to mess up when you try something new... don't let that stop you
Related links:
Sunwarrior <== 20% off all Sunwarrior products & free shipping over $50 (US only)
Joel Salatin - The Sheer Ecstasy of Being a Lunatic Farmer (book)
Follow Joel Salatin (Polyface Farms) on Facebook and Instagram
Michael Pollan - The Omnivore's Dilemma (book)
Jared Diamond - Collapse (book)
Jared Diamond - Guns, Germs, and Steel (book)
Jo Robinson - Pasture Perfect (book)
Jo Robinson - Why Grassfed Is Best! (book)
Artemis Dimopoulos & Jo Robinson - The Omega Diet (book)
HeartMath - Inner Balance Trainer
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 69th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:10.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Waugh. Hello and |
| 0:13.4 | welcome to the 69th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast Jesse Chappas here with |
| 0:14.4 | Marnie Wasserman and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:18.1 | Today we're interviewing alternative farmer Joel Salitan from Polyface Farms and this gentleman a conversation. So before we get into details on him, I want to mention about a |
| 0:35.0 | couple of amazing gifts that I got this week. It was my birthday on November 11th and |
| 0:38.3 | Jesse got me a Fitbit and I also got it's something called Inner Balance and it's a heart math |
| 0:44.4 | monitor but the Fitbit I got to test out today and I don't know how many of you guys |
| 0:48.3 | have a Fitbit but I'm pretty excited to see the details on it. It tracks so many things day and day out so I'm |
| 0:55.2 | excited to monitor myself. Yeah you can track your steps, your sleep and |
| 0:59.8 | yeah these are a couple of really techie gifts and Marnie let's just say she sometimes |
| 1:07.7 | needs a little bit of assistance when it comes to the technological stuff so it'll be |
| 1:12.4 | interesting to see how she responds to these but |
| 1:15.2 | to health-oriented gifts that I'm sure Marnie's gonna get a lot out of. |
| 1:21.2 | This is what happens in the health world what you what you get for people so yeah. get but this is great way to keep myself accountable so maybe for you guys this might |
| 1:33.4 | inspire you to look into it a little bit further I can't comment too much on it |
| 1:36.9 | because I've just had one and a half days wearing it but it's the heart math |
| 1:41.2 | one and I'm also excited about. So I don't know, |
| 1:43.0 | JC maybe wants me to relax a little bit more, but I'm excited about that one. |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah, that one again, we're learning about it, but it's supposed to help you get into that parasympathetic state and relax and it's it's got an app for her iPhone and yeah we'll get back and give you guys some more details on both of these as we get to play with them and we're excited. |
| 2:06.7 | Very excited. |
| 2:08.1 | So I'm going to give a little shout out to Sun Warrior, our show sponsor and listeners, I have good news for you. |
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