Episode #1478
Joel Salatin
Books mentioned
Guns, Germs, and Steel
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City Chicks
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Folks, This Ain’t Normal
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You Can Farm
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Salad Bar Beef
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Farmer, author, and lecturer Joel Salatin discusses the vulnerabilities of industrial food production and the potential of regenerative, pasture-based farming to restore soil, support animal welfare, and strengthen local food security. He and Joe Rogan also examine decentralized meat processing, food waste, nutrition, microbiome health, gardening, and environmental changes such as returning wildlife.
What they talked about
- Pandemic impact on industrial vs. local food systems
- Vulnerability of large meat processing plants
- Regenerative farming and animal welfare
- Immune system and microbiome health
- Regulatory barriers for small-scale meat sales
- Urban-rural divide and broadband access
- Soil building and carbon sequestration through grazing
- Urban agriculture and food self-sufficiency
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