Slowdown Farmstead: Trading Convenience for Wisdom with Tara Couture

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

Vanessa Spina

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.5 • 758 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Tara Couture is a certified nutritionist, homestead farmer, expert in nutrient dense animal based nourishment and one of my favorite instagram accounts to follow!

Tara has brought up her girls on nutrient dense foods you can imagine using her nutrition background combined with teachings from Weston A. Price, raw milk from farmer friends, and mostly her own animals she raises. I absolutely love reading her posts and she is a wealth of information. See more below for links on grassfed beef and conventionally raised cattle. Follow her amazing Instagram account http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead

Feeding ruminants Urea (and here's the company making a "food grade urea" product for the cattle industry using natural gas).

Article on what's passing as animal feed commercially.

This one also talks about the protein added to cattle feed which includes the bone, blood, guts, feathers, and other garbage from animal sources (not including other cattle).

This one speaks to what I was saying about cattle developing "acidosis" - where their rumen can't keep up with feed concentrates (grains et. al.). It's this acidosis, or imbalanced gut bacteria that is a major contributor to unhealthy bacterial strains in the cattle (that get passed into our food).

Example of trying to feed ruminants whatever industrial waste they can. And another.

Something not often talked about are the antibiotics and hormones grain fed/feedlot cattle must receive just for them to survive such unhealthy cramped conditions with poor immunity. The antibiotics are directly in their feed.

The ubiquitousness of bloat and acidosis in grain fed cattle. There are literally tens of thousands of studies on how to control this. When cattle come off grass and go into the feedlots, there is a transition period of moving their guts from grass fermentation chamber to a grain based one. This is done with great precision or they will bloat and die. Imagine! They've figured out how to totally transform this exquisite, clean fuel running system into one that accepts feeds it was never meant to digest.

Standard operating procedures - grain feedlots.

Cellulose (wood fibre) in foods and cattle feed.

Sources of other feed by-products (it's not whole corn or any other grain, it's often the by-product of the industrial food system).

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0:00.0	Welcome to Fast Keto. I'm your host, Ketogenic Girl.
0:04.7	Did you know that you actually have the option to either be a sugar burner or a fat burner?
0:11.3	It's called having a metabolic advantage, as Dr. Ben Beekman would put it.
0:16.4	You can actually burn your own stored body fat for fuel.
0:21.6	On this show, we talk about ketogenicis, fasting, biohacking, all with the goal of optimal body composition for longevity and having the highest possible quality of life.
0:34.3	I hope you enjoy these interviews and solo cast that I present to you all with
0:39.5	this goal in mind. Welcome back to Fast Kito, you guys. I've been so excited about this episode with
0:46.2	Tara from at Slowdown Farmstead on Instagram. She has one of my absolute favorite accounts to follow. She has devoted her life
0:57.2	to not only raising three daughters and devoting her life to that and to bringing them up and
1:05.3	raising them, but also raising animals in a humane way. And she really believes it's our moral imperative to give animals
1:14.2	that we eat a humane wonderful life while they're here on this planet and dispelling a lot
1:20.9	of the myths out there about the about factory farming about grain thread animals and about
1:27.4	butchering animals and how to do it in a
1:30.3	responsible way without short-changing her animals or herself by not developing relationships
1:35.6	with these animals. She has an account that shares a lot of the truth behind farming and what
1:43.7	it can look like when we have a regenerative approach to
1:49.0	agriculture and to raising and slaughtering animals in a responsible way.
1:55.0	Animals really play an integral role in the vitality of our world. And it is amazing how much misinformation there is out
2:05.0	there about what farming can really look like when it is done in a proper way. And I learned so
2:11.0	much from following her posts and everything that she shares and her content is just absolutely
2:16.5	amazing. I know that you guys
2:18.5	are going to enjoy this episode. I had so much fun recording it with Tara and we're absolutely
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