Welcome to episode three of Behind the Shield. My name is James Gearing and I will be a host for this

podcast. My guest on this episode is American farmer Joel Salatin. Now Joel, other than a farmer,

is also a lecturer and an author. His books include Folks This Ain't Normal, You Can, and the marvelous pigness of pigs.

Joel is an English major from Bob Jones University.

He is featured in Food Documentaries Food Inc. and Fresh, which I recommend both of those.

He has done TED Talks and spoken at Google.

And Joel is known for his holistic method of animal husbandry. He has a very unique look at not only the way the animals are raised,

but even the way the food that they eat is grown. So he will move his animals through geographically

through his farm to make sure that the acorns, the grass, whatever they're actually

eating normally has grown to the point where it has the maximum or nutrition and the

minimum amount of stress. So the product is the healthiest, leanest meat that you can get.

And therefore, this low stress, high nutrition environment

creates the healthiest meat for the people that he sells to.

He doesn't use any chemicals, any drugs, or GMO feed.

Now, this whole topic is so important to me.

When you look outside the window, you look at our fellow citizens here in the U.S., in the UK and other Western developed countries,

you are seeing a growing trend of ill health.

This can absolutely be improved through exercise and movement, but let's say you exercise for four days a week, about an hour at a time. Well,

that's only four hours total in the 150 odd hours a week that you have available to you.

So the rest of the time is obviously in that balance of energy and energy out.

The quality of that food is even more important.

The gastrointestinal tract is 80% of your immune system.

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