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#203 – Anya Fernald: Regenerative Farming and the Art of Cooking Meat

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The Evolutionary Diet of the Animal

Cows were built and evolved to eat this very low calorie, very high fiber, very low density food. When we put them on a corn fed diet, that's the opposite of their evolutionary diet and their systems really struggle with it. And pigs will happily eat chickens, for example, are pigs on the farm will hunt and kill rattlesnakes and eat them. They're omnivores. I've looked at the nutritional analysis on on all of our products and it's the evolutionary diet is for the case of beef and lamb gets their omega three to six ratios the same as wild game. It's not like beef is really radically different from elk, a ruminant species

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