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RatayuGaming: Paleo Diet Q & A

alright guys so we're going to get this started I'll have to jump off to manually click to the next to the next slide here but we're going to start with all right the Paleo diet guys the Paleo diet hop on here let's get to the next one I have the Paleo diet so let's talk about the background of what the Paleo diet is so Paleo one stands for the Paley Paleolithic era ok so essentially what does that mean that refers to the Stone Age right that's right it's why you see this little of this little caveman looking guy because the the Paleo diet is also often referred to as the the caveman the caveman diet right so the Stone Age as most people are aware was a primitive time in human history where simple stone tools were used right it's actually when it's the first time when man you know realize that they can use they started using using items to do things whether it was whether it was you know some type of object to use as a weapon to defend themselves against animals to hunt started using tools to mash things together right so it was largely defined right by the hunting and gathering of of foods right the caveman did it and didn't have the basic you know the basic things let me go out to a grocery store to go get the items that I need there was no amazon.com to get items delivered to my to my house right you had to go out and hunt for the food that you want it right literally hunting down the animal and then you have to go out and if you want it together food meaning go out and get berries off the tree or maybe pick certain leaves or some types of roots right so that was a whole you know that's what we really mean by hunting and gathering and so some of that some of that kind of really ties into right that what is that involved large large movements right because sometimes you know you did stay in one place you would go you would go where you are able to hunt together so let's say as Kurds moved around you also to moving around because that was your food supply right if it started getting cold in an area and you needed to go maybe migrate somewhere else wherever is going to start getting warmer so you can still get access to things that's where that's where that's where you're going around right so when you're when you're just out and about you're always you're always on the go right so you're highly highly active writes geniux work during the day you know it's similar to similar back to like farming right you're just working all day huge large energy expenditure going on right you had things like regular seasonal food shortages you know how well now we have access pretty much to the same for example that really is like the prime example you have access to fruit all year round all kinds of fruit tube bananas apples blueberries raspberries oranges right before there were these stores right where we could get food imported from all over the world prior to all of that they were seasonal you can only get oranges around the time of year ends if you happen to be in the region where oranges were you know a groom right I'll depending on what area you lived in you may not have had access to certain foods right and with even in that region you did not have access to those foods all year around ok so that's kind of what we mean by regular seasonal food shortages and unplanned starvation meaning there were probably periods right where you weren't able to go out in hunting gather let's say during the right leg touring during the cold season you're probably not able to hunt and gather as much because you know creatures were in hibernation right or they had migrated somewhere warmer right so they were definitely gonna be seasons periods of time where food was not in abundance I mean and that's very similar to what you see what you see now in the animal world I mean you you hear that all the time any time you're watching a a documentary around that so that's really the error the error that we're talking about talking about here right me flip here to the next the next slide I really need to get like that they got Mouse clicker that I can like click to go to the next slide here so what didn't we talk about some this so what did the cave man or woman eat right we have this little cartoon picture here I'm tired of hunting and gathering to when nobody's invented grocery stores yet right so that's what you know again this was just what they had to slowly rely on I mean imagine imagine if you had the solely of lye I'm going out to go hunter hunts and gather your own food I mean a lot of people won't even know where to begin I know I wouldn't right if you have if I have to go just go out in the world on the other than what pops in my mind is a deer but do I even know how to like do things okay let's say even if I managed to find it here and even if I managed to actually kill the deer I would have no idea how to actually prepare to do whatever touch even be able to eat it right this with me these are the skills that we just you know do not have so getting back to the kind of whose day so they hunted and gathered right fish okay fishing right meat so and again you have to imagine here this is like out in the wild so wild fish wild you know wild meat whether it was you know buffalo deer any nuts that they could find right and we're talking like you know we're talking nuts that are like up in the up in the tree you know yank down you know egg corn crack it open you're like eating a nut right berries whatever seasonal berries you know they could find seeds right and then root vegetables you know I made a root vegetables would be things like turnips celery right any type of any type of vegetable that grows in that grows in the ground right in the moderate so let's so obviously obviously with the Paleo diet it's not being recommended that you should go out and go hunt and kill your own your own meat no must tell me to go slaughter your own cow or to go hunt your own fish we in this and in fact right there's actually a lot of walls in place where you can't even really you can't just do that on a regular basis you can't just go out and say oh well I was trying to go you know I was trying to go hunt my own my own meat my own protein for dinner tonight no you know what I mean so there's definitely a modern version of the Paleo diet that is to try to as best as it can to mimic to mimic what a caveman or Kate woman would have been eating during during during that time right so really what we're talking about there the modern Paleo diet really focuses on eliminating the consumption of highly processed foods that you typically find in her typical Western diet right and so I thought it was important and I'm gonna jump here I'm gonna jump here to the next slide I thought it was important tougher well what is the Western diet maybe people aren't familiar with that term and that lifestyle right but so the Western the Western diet which is really widely adopted by most Americans in the in the in the United States it's centered around really a high a high intake of high-fat red meats you got an intake of highly processed foods and I'll get into what processed foods are but I mean processed food is essentially you know you take one item and it has to go through some type of you know chemical chemical process in order to be turned into something else right I eat candy right my intake of refined sugar ii foods right like candy soda Oreos which are one of my personal favorite right that's an example of a process a processed food highly take the grains rice bread right oatmeal I mean all of those look like rice bread and oatmeal and you're gonna see this later those are all examples of processed food right now that's a better a more healthier processed food right then say you know candy but you know but still it's a process it's a processed food it's not something that is found in it's in a natural in a natural state if you will you know t
hey know what and then though the Western diet low I'm on the other end generally it's a low intake of fruits of fresh vegetables right and generally our lifestyle we have low levels of physical activity and we have low look low movement at work right and you see this and I kind of give you a little picture here yeah a lot of this should be very familiar you got the cheeseburger your cookies ketchup you know Snickers M&Ms your gummies your fried chicken wings your blueberry muffin your soda you're sitting your Cinnabon right I don't know it is crazy to think maybe a lot of people who are watching this right now or listening in who are into fitness and health you may be like well look like that's not my lifestyle that's not my diet but you have to imagine I mean and especially in America this this is the primary diet I mean you go out you go around the tube into the world and I'm sure I'm sure you can attest to this I mean more often than not this is the majority do I think do I think like thank God we're in we're in a we're in an era where works rending to be healthier its hipper it's cooler to be you know to want to be healthy and we're gonna eat healthy yeah but in large part this is still what's going on here right so you can so you can already see the huge discrepancy and if you know the difference between a paleo type of diet right with that hunter-gatherer mindset kind of thing you know only eating foods that you could hunt and gather versus what we've adopted now you know recently over the past what 200 years maybe right they definitely weren't able to find ketchup back in the day I love ketchup by the so processed food right just to rehang her on that in case you just don't know what I mean by processed food right so again as I described processed food is any food item that has a series of mechanical or chemical operations performed on it to change or preserve it right and you've got your things crackers cookies gums breakfast cereals that's right your tricks as a processed food right bread condiments oatmeal brown rice right so I wanted you to see the wide range there a lot of people might be might be saying well hey you know I need a meal it would still cut oatmeal I eat brown rice hey I thought that was good for you you know why is that a processed food and so again at the end of the day processed foods have a variety of ranges in terms of better for you they don't mean like obviously like eating brown rice which I can't remember there's like there's like three primary things in the grain of rice I know that white rice they strip all three out with brown rice they only strip one out so you're getting two of the like micronutrients out of that so you're getting some good nutritional value but I say so so for example so brown rice is a whole night so process but that obviously is so much better like a thousand times better than you going in eating some crackers more highly processed right and this is a no ticket of order but as I'm kind of sitting here looking at it telling our edit what's going on you're just tuning in we're going on the Paleo the pinwheel diet this is kind of that step in where I wanted to you know drop some knowledge and educate you guys probably working out so I mean so processed food again a food item that it's not a series of mechanical or chemical operations performed on to it to change or preserve it right so also remember the eat when we say preserve but what does that mean so preserve it is we're talking about we're talking about sodium artificial you know artificial preservatives you know there's a reason why even your you know Dave's killer bread I love Dave skillet bread a great read I've recommended you know I definitely recommend you get it if you're gonna go get yourself some bread right but there is its name reason why Dave's killer read any bread right that's nicely cut up for you can last can last on the shelves you know a couple weeks three weeks you know what I'm saying they're put in there to help it to help it last that long there's a reason right there's a reason why I pack the Oreo cookies you can buy a pack and it can just stay there I mean even for longer without without going stale and these are you know I me but bags of potato chips right and these are things that we really we don't think about and not that it's our fault right because to be honest like I think we do a poor job educating ourselves even when were younger right educating ourselves on on food in my quality food right in processed food whether whether you're looking at doing or just any type of diet whether it's Kido whether it's if it's fits your macros whether whether you're doing like the all you know the all meat diet like Turner or diet you know you always want to do as best as you can to avoid processed foods okay because they were just you know they got a bunch of in them a bunch of different chemicals I mean have you ever thought about how crazy it is to look at a bag of something and you look at the ingredients and it's that you can't pronounce don't you ever think I'm putting that in my body like enemy tastes good listen I love Oreos just as much as the next person I really do but if you're gonna look at all the ingredients and you think about like I'm putting this in my body and that's and that's what the you know the big problem is especially again with the Western diet is that a majority of the Western diet is made up of highly processed foods and your people are just putting that in their body every single bag so this is what we're talking about when we mean processed foods right so let's talk about now you know you're talking about putting that in our body so what's the impact of that right and this is a big you know not necessarily advocating by the way the whole purpose of this presentation is not to advocate for the Paleo diet it's just you know again I think this is just going to be a you know a bunch of different you know presentations I'm going to do on different types of you know diets right and this kind of series if you will so really problems associated with the Western diet in generally but like I said can be resolved by doing other types of other types of diets right is that what the Western diet because it's made up of a kind e highly carbohydrate right which parts carbohydrates by the way in case you didn't know just at the end of the day converts into sugar right you you adjusted for behide rates right breaks down to glucose and glucose is just a sugar right so you have this high sugar right which does meet the high insulin produces the hormone insulin okay you're eating these highly processed foods that's full of all this other this other - toast corn syrup aspartame you know like that's like an artificial sweetener right and what it does to the body is it leads to a plethora of different problems right you know high carbohydrate high sugar if you combine that with low physical activity which most of us are doing just as you go and keep in mind just going to go to the gym one two hours a day doesn't mean you're a super active person if you're just sitting on your butt the rest of the time your overall activity is not super it's not like moderate at best that's a big mistake people make especially when they're trying to do these cavalry calculators because they always put their thumbs with their activity level at like you know the highest it can be just because they go to the gym one or two hours everyday five five days a week no right you know you got to think about like how active or you fell today are you getting at least 10,000 15,000 steps a day you know so with this kind of diet in the low activity level what happens is all of that sugar when it goes unused right it just converts into fat right our body naturally has a certain threshold of you will love sugar right stored glycogen that
that can be in the muscles right and then once you've tapped over that it just spills over and converts the fat right so that's that's where you get your fat fat gain in your fat and your fat storage right eating a very tiny process right high processed foods high sugar can lead to a lot of inflammation in the bottom right swollen feet swollen joints right so again a lot of a lot of high a lot of high inflammation excuse me digestive issues right but in all this crap in the body you know a lot of this really a lot of this process highly processed food that has a bunch of chemicals in it our body wasn't meant to digest that so there's no wonder people have you know acid acid reflux you know leaky gut syndrome people are not being lactose or having a gluten you know a gluten intolerance you know you ever eat a food right and you didn't mean to eat a lot of it but you eat a food and like your stomach gets all blown up and bloated you know or like you have like you eat a certain food and all of a sudden like you got like an Aggie my shoulder pain and a lower back pain you know like a pre-existing injury and kinda nice flares up this is all these are all you know between the digestive issues and inflammation right these are all things that can happen and then obviously the high sugar high insulin you can leave the diabetes to increase you know fat you can get fat right stored you know plop clogging up your arteries can lead to early heart attack know all types of heart disease right so nothing that you know that want to sit here and freak you out I mean but these are all kind of nun things and I mean it really this is what I'm talking about where a lot of this is starting to come to light here about a lot of the problems associated with the Western diet so so the big things will always push with you guys anyone who's getting started out focus on don't really worry about how many calories you're eating right now you're just starting out focus on quality food ie non processed food even if it's a 80/20 eighty percent you're eating clean right twenty percent is process you're doing so many steps right in the right direction okay so next we have so what is the actual modern paleo diet what look like right so you've got your basic proteins your meat right beef pork chicken lice and turkey eggs fish salmon tuna halibut cod fruit you know the fruit escena brushed or grapes Barry is grapefruits and bananas oranges right value typical stuff fresh vegetables cucumbers tomatoes avocados wash celery broccoli your fats olive oil coconut oil avocado oil grass-fed butter flaxseed oil right and then your nuts and seeds almonds Brazil nuts seeds walnuts pecans right so these I mean to be honest with you these are all things that you would find in a typical like good good healthy puppy nutrition right I mean these are all staples of my nutrition right now and I don't follow a paleo diet and I have tried a little by the way but these are all these are all great things to be incorporating in your in your inner and your daily nutrition right so even if you decide hey you know I heard about that paleo but I don't know if I'm going to try it you should make sure that you're including these things in your in your nutrition right they should make up on a daily basis you should be including these things right so this is all pretty pretty typical oops so now that we talked about what should be in now that we talk about what should be in the what should be in the like what's part of the modern Paleo diet now let's go ahead and talk about right now what is what are the know knows right so obviously processed foods let me talked about none of your and I kind of I kind of have them all X here right so none of your you know potentially no no sugar no artificial sugar right none of your sodas your sweeteners prepackaged foods right none of that now your trans fats vegetable oils corn oil soy oil peanut oil right grains right and and for me this is where I kind of get like like grains cuz cuz then essentially we're eliminating rice oatmeal right and I like that's where I like and you'll get to this in the pros and cons where I find it to be like a bit a bit much if you will but but no brains right because again it's really because it falls under the process and if you're kind of getting back to the intent of this gatherer hunter mindset right you wouldn't have been able to go out and find rice out in the out in the world you know what I mean so the idea is that you know our bodies weren't meant to our bodies were meant to digest grain right so if we like I said anyways just talking about the you know but the modern paleo diet and then dairy right milk cheese cream yogurt right again the idea the idea that dairy is once again is a processed food right process in the sense the same milk for example you know you have the cow milk comes comes out of the cow and then goes through a process to become the milk that you drink on a daily basis when you go and pick it up out of the carbon out of the grocery store you know what I mean so I mean I myself I'll be honest I'll be honest dairy like I have some issues with digesting dairy like what I'm really trying to lean out and cut I won't do a lot of dairy what we do a lot of dairy anyway I do Greek yogurt I do Greek yogurt but I really don't do a lot of dairy generally because I do notice that it kind of gives me some stomach issues right so it kind of tells you all right maybe there is some sense inside understanding why you know you're not supposed to include dairy but again really kind of falls under it's it's processed right you win it find it out in the environment and then legumes chickpeas lentils beans peanuts right I mean it's so again even for me I don't I don't understand necessarily myself why that's a what's the issue with chickpeas or with peanuts right I guess again because if there's some level of modification right okay if you're gonna go inside but that's the general gist guys of your of your of your modern paleo diet of note notes right so that's why nor those are the things you don't want to include like I said I'm kind of on hold for some of you are like really bad processed foods and I and I get some of the newer studies too they can come out on like the vegetable oils like soy oil the soy oil you know and I get like some of the highly processed grains you know just like you know you're seen because sometimes you'll see like a cereal or like a cracker something highly processed and they're trying to say all the different types of grains you get and it's super healthy for you yeah some of that I get like okay yeah you shouldn't be printing on your body but like oatmeal brown rice you know I'm not really against that mean with goose something won't work your sweet potato being on the goon you know I think that's a bit much too if you ask me in like dairy I mean I think get push for your calcium unless you're gonna like supplement but otherwise like yeah I don't understand why you know dairy is it's such a big deal if you will I just feel like it you know in the in the grains dairy in the boom section there are some there could be somewhere like yes it's a process but it's not so a working process that maybe there's some good health benefits that maybe you don't have to be part of your staple diet every every single day but maybe once a week you're including these or every other day you know in moderation you know what I'm saying so let's talk about some of the it's almost some of the pros and cons some of the pros and cons here right with the modern paleo diet Randy a more subdued sandy good health I'm trying bro I'm trying right now I'm doing I decided as part of as part of my like you know fitness fitness streams I'm going to spend the first like 45 minutes going over like a a topic if you will right so that way it's not just you know
watching me worked out so we'll get through that and then and then we'll get to the workout so today we've been covering the Paleo diet so I'm actually getting into the pros and cons right now I like it smart move thanks - I appreciate that bro I appreciate that so learn burn I love that burn oh man you know I might have to steal that tagline bro with me maybe sway enough companies today's learn and burn right because I good work at least for me I'm I'm trying to educate while I'm on a trip them and getting some steps in you know go ahead all right yeah I'm I still that I love that so the modern Paleo diet pros and cons here right so the next two slides are on the pro or pros and cons so okay so let's serve the first row here right so pros nutrient dense right so meaning that generally when you're following the types of foods that are in a Paleo diet right you're really talking about eating foods and their most natural their most natural form not highly processed not mixed with a bunch of because you have to remember see what happens is is that when you take say say something like even broccoli but say you take broccoli but did you know that by the time you cook the broccoli but even put it up to some oil you cook the broccoli by the time the broccoli reaches your plate it's literally lost eighty posted ninety percent of its nutritional value crazy right crazy and so that's the you know so that's the that's the idea here is that when you're eating a paleo diet you know there's no they have noticed the truth it's the truth I mean it not really goes with that really goes with a lot of your natural foods right any any food as soon as you start messing with it right it starts losing this nutritional value right that's why it's always best again and that's the whole idea behind the Paleo diet is to get food you know even your meat that's why you see the big thing on you know 100% grass-fed and wild caught fish because the whole idea is that nothing's been tampered or mess with it to with this nutritional value right so when you're eating that you're getting you know there really is no meaning have to take some type of vitamin supplement right because you're getting a lot of good solid micronutrients right now a con right is that normally as we most know eating really healthy super organic buying that wild-caught fish buying that grass-fed you know beef it's expensive it's super expensive right I mean even my even myself waking up and I'm a healthy guy right I can't afford to go and get grass-fed beef all the time Organic chicken you know organic organic berries and fruits right and when I do I give that to the kids but like it's just not you know I'm not a big fish eater oh yeah I mean so I mean but just whatever it is to get it in its purest form it's up right you would think like why should it be more expensive to get something that's less processed you have to do more work theoretically to make it I guess something highly processed like Oreos for example right well that's chips just made in a lab and they can just mask that right but it's funny how now but for all you know that probably the the thing is is probably gotta do more work now you know to to make it more natural right because it's harder for them to keep it produced exactly exactly versus the cheaper exactly so that's a kind is that it's more expensive right now what I would say to that is like you know don't let that deter you just get what you're able to get it's even if you're able to incorporate a little bit of it it's better than incorporating forth not incorporating it at all you know what I'm saying most farmers are forced to use the GMO seeds yeah yeah and that's what you're even seeing you're even seeing some farmers that are coming out where they're producing the more natural stuff and you're slowly I'm missing you on Instagram you know you're seeing that like and I'll some of that earlier the story the trends were starting to become more popular people are having more conversations especially in the meat industry right that's almost like one of the worst offenders right but I know it's crazy man it may it's crazy you see these cows these chickens that are massive and you're like what cook this isn't natural you know it's crazy to think about so obviously you know notes lead to another Pro the Paleo diet when you're eating when you're eating a diet with no app additives preservatives chemicals right that's great for the body keeps you feeling nice and clean right and I kind of really also kind of leads to the anti-inflammatory benefits right you don't got a lot of highly processed in your body you know not causing those digestive issues not putting you in not putting you in an inflamed state that's great now on the other end right flip it over a couple of the cons some people describe this a bit restrictive right you are limited certain numbers of foods and people don't like that right I mean even I myself you know I don't like super restrictive diets that eliminates up and getting back to the previous slide right I told you some of the things that paleo eliminates like grains which would be even brown rice steel-cut oatmeal right I don't think the book should necessarily not be included I mean I think I think in moderation those things those things are fine right so some people find it to be a bit restrictive and they also the preparation time obviously coming out going out and getting your prepackaged meal and just popping it in the oven versus imagine if you got your fresh piece of meat and you had to season the meats and cut it up and cook it and you got to do your bets your vegetables hit your vegetables out and prepare them and cook it obviously you know it's gonna take longer to prepare your own your own food right so people do that as a kind I mean again I think if you wanna if you're trying to you know put the scripts are eating healthy you just have to accept that this is going to take more time to prepare your own food but I think the benefits far outweigh the cons of that longer usually better hell yeah a lot of times better exactly exactly alright put me back over to the pros right healthy lipid profile so what do we mean by that we mean that with the Paleo diet you're getting a lot of good healthy fats right it's promoting you when you get a lot of good healthy fats either from the meat consumption right or things like again your olive oil avocado oil your nuts your seeds right and so having having a good lipid profile it's gonna mean you're gonna have a great you know a great level of cholesterol one you can your and you're interrupting your tre triglycerides right which is also really going to result in lower risk of heart disease right you're not gonna worried about so really what we're talking about here one of the big things that comes to mind is when you're eating a lot of highly processed a lot of bad fat you end up clogging up your arteries right clogging up your arteries is one of these can lead to a heart attack heart disease so these are things that we want to stay the away from you're doing your wife lose a lot of weight or just you both of us did we did it together actually which was great because we could lean on one another it's funny because she started before I did and I just I wasn't into it yet and but then yeah we both hopped on the train and we did it together it was great it was awesome it was great having and getting that partner you know to rely on the push one another because there's going to be days where you don't feel like doing it and you want that partner to be like you we are gonna do it you know yeah it's great I really what it really was and then so the next so like weight loss due to limited food choice generally speaking if I'm going to restrict the kind of foods you can eat in additi
on to you having to spend time to prepare them generally you're probably going to eat you're probably going to eat less calories which is going to result in weight loss now the funny thing the opposite the a critique of the Paleo diet you need that motivation sometimes yeah dude-- yeah dude-- yeah dude-- absolutely it's it's critical it's actually critical whether it's a spouse wife or wife is a spouse with your spouse yeah you know another family sibling close friend you know yeah dude you need it absolutely absolutely but so one of the funny things is that some people actually can play on the Paleo diet it's actually easy to over eating gain weight because a lot of people get on paleo and then people are like oh my god I can eat all the nuts in the world right so obviously something like nuts right is very alertly dense meaning what does that mean that meats like 1/4 cup of nuts it's like 200 freedom calories right so if you just word yourself on thinking who let me I can drizzle all the olive oil I went all over my salad you know or I can crush all the nut butter you know I want then you could quickly find yourself crushing like 3,000 calories and you're like I'm getting fat why am I getting fat from paleo right so and that is something if you're not used to like what different and this is why I love this is why I also like I'm such a huge advocate of people at least spending some period logging their food so that they understand the different kinds of foods and their nutritional value calories what's a high carbohydrate food a high protein food a high fat food so people can understand cuz you times people make mistakes there's peanut butter oh I just put you know 3 3 spoons of peanut butter in this and it's like these globs is like three tablespoons worth easily close to like a thousand calories and peanut butter and they don't even think about that stuff you know and then the last comment is this is really mortar an athlete and I'll be honest I experienced this myself especially when I was doing you know anytime at this book like high high like intensity activity on like CrossFit for example even though I know how people push paleo and CrossFit together but have a doing it to be real with you but like you still love low-energy at the end of the day your body's preferred energy source right plus efficient in my opinion is carbohydrate it is sugar right there's a reason there's a reason why you eat a banana and boom you get a Spiker you eat a piece of chocolate boom you get a spike in your go-go-go you know what I'm saying so really thank you another big thing you know it's the low energy right because generally speaking your carbohydrate consumption is gonna be lower because you have to remember the idea of the Paleo diet even though fruits allow that general idea is that you're supposed to be eating like the caveman right where a majority of your diet is meats right followed by like meats and fish followed by followed by your fats right mean your olive oil nuts seeds right and then at the very and then at the very very top two is gonna be like fruit your fruit and vegetables right now obviously they prefer you to do vegetables but fruit is very is a very minimal amount because again the whole idea is is that fruit fruit wasn't around all year round right it definitely not all kinds of fruit we're a wreck we're around right you could live in an area where put oranges just weren't native right but we're used to we have all kinds of fruit that we went all the time so anyways so general you're gonna have a lower lower carbohydrate intake right so as we continue to wrap up our pros and cons right so flipping over here right the Paleo diet is rich in potassium right eating a lot of fruit and vegetables to increase potassium levels right any and when we say eating a lot of fruit and vegetables we just mean in comparison to the Western diet that generally has a low intake of fresh fruit and vegetables right increase your potassium levels right which is great for maintaining healthy blood pressure getting great kidney muscle function right opposite Cohn again because you can't have the dairy a lot of people especially in the you know in the Western society they get their calcium from milk cheese and yogurt right and so those who follow a very strict hey leo diet they could find themselves you know not having an adequate amount of calcium know you could counter that and say well you can take some type of calcium supplement right or something along those lines but generally like if you're not then you could you know do I think I think I would say a bit of a stretch but dr. yeah that could happen and therefore low bone and tooth density yeah but flipping back over to the pros high protein content right I told you a majority of the Paleo diet is high protein so proteins right or essential I mean protein proteins do so much for you right there's social promotion develop your skin muscles bone and your cartilage right consuming adequate amounts of meat protein right contribute to a great healthy body composition and lower insulin response right protein protein and carbs is what balance one another app if you didn't know that actually but yeah protein and the protein is great it really it really is right boom to the car Viva nation of whole grains right could mean a decrease didn't know that oh yeah yeah yeah is what this is what it's with is what the balance one another out yep yeah and then fats right fats produce the hormone leptin and leptin leptin is the hormone that tells your body that in the fool so that's why that's why it's a good idea it's a good idea to have a balance of all of these macronutrients right that's why I'm never really a super huge a super huge fan of a diet that completely eliminates one macronutrient out of the out of the picture like the carnivore diet for example right well don't cover that too I mean I plan on doing all these you know if I'm doing all of them so the whole grains right if you all of a sudden over male green you could be decreasing your intake of fiber right which is beneficial to gut health now again it you can argue fiber supplements and things of that nature and my place personally speaking I still consume whole grains steel-cut oatmeal brown rice you know now do I think like if you're like man you're eating cereal you're like yeah I'm getting my whole grains I think there were more less processed foods out there like steel-cut oatmeal and brown rice where you can be getting your fiber intake from you know what I'm saying so but again that's just on you know that's just on me that's where like I agree with this as being a you know a con I think you just need to you know in whole grains pick the less processed ones and then you put them back over your last Pro and this is a huge Pro this is probably like the number one Pro in my opinion morning to take on diet and that's the elimination of processed foods right this diet is compromised of Whole Foods right we talked about it your meats fish fruit vegetables right your fats nuts seeds okay I mean this is your this Whole Foods right this is stuff that I less processed food for all food that's right exactly exactly so you got you got less less salt less sugar less like high fructose corn syrup like aspartame and all these other ingredients that I don't even have a pronounce processed food has messed up my stomach yeah I'm telling you that's one of the big things right it's so crazy because I've gone so long right with eliminating you know a lot of that out of my diet that any time I do like a life cheat days right here if you follow my Instagram you see some of the food that I get on my cheat day sometimes and trust me I like because my body's gotten so trained it's crazy and as I've got older I keep asking myself man why do I do this because I I'm realizing it you realize it with physical reaction to eating
this highly processed food all the agrees that just probably that just process your stomach yeah yeah right so you know eating that less salt that less sugar right then obviously is improving your blood sugar levels and blood pressure right reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes right so I mean again this is just this is this is the number one right and this again this is it you can you can do you can do keto you can do if it fits your macros and them still eliminate processed food now because paleo is so restrictive it makes you eliminate processed food you know what I'm saying so but like that is like literally number one eat something your body rejection immediately yes I'm tug dude over the past like few years I have thrown up more not because I got super drunk but because I had a night of crushing something like fried chicken wings and literally that night I threw up because my stomach just couldn't handle eating eating fried chicken wings I'm telling you like no joke it's the truth it's really wild it's so crazy it really is you know that's common the diet does not allow the consumption of legumes which are highly beneficial gut health and rich in magnesium selenium and magnesium no Mac manganese I always get ripped up on those cuz it's not you read it you thinking you want to say magnesium right away so it again this is also where I kind of agree consumptions up lagoons I think it within a category like some people argue like potatoes and sweet potatoes or legumes and I think sweet potatoes are right for you so that's where I also like I feel like I feel like in the book that dairy both the dairy the grains and the legumes I understand why they're eliminated they're not they're eliminated as far as the Paleo diet because they're processed food right that's because it used to you like I gotta give the examples earlier of milk milk comes out of a cow and then it has to go through some sort of process it gets bottled and packaged and boom right like when we drink the milk out of the Adamek out of the thing out of the carton it is not the milk that came directly out of the cow some has happened to it before we consume it you don't I mean in grains I get it we gave the example of like brown rice right yeah we're not I can't remember it's the Hulk there's like three there's like three things I know with white brakes that gets stripped out but we don't brown rice like one of the things gets stripped down right so I understand its process hello out of the thing out of the other milk almost kills me well same yeah I really don't do a lot of milk when it comes to Dairy and Greek yogurt like the products to get some of the like good good bacteria if you will so let's go again and like little goons I get because some of them are like process you know what I do think like sweet potatoes I just feel like in each of those areas whole grains dairy and legumes there are less processed versions in each of those areas that I think you know it's good in moderation to include those I think some of the health benefits outweigh the fact that it's processed you know what I'm saying like your whole grains if you're eating brown rice okay there you get some more nutritional value then if you're eating raisin bran you know what I'm saying I think there's like so there's so two extremes in that category that it's almost unfair to like Nick's brown rice because raisin bran is in that category you know what I'm saying look at anything is raisin bran but you get you get what I'm saying here so yeah I mean so these are the general these are the general pros pros and cons guys around the Paleo diet I mean next we get the last segment is uh it's questions we're pushing 56 minutes a time this would be about 45 minutes to an hour you know there's no questions I think what I'll talk about you know it's one speaking of my experience doing paleo right in my CrossFit face because paleo was a big kind of diet being pushed around CrossFit I tried it and I would say the biggest the biggest con for me was that high the low energy level now did it leave me out Oh abso-fucking-lutely like didn't leave me out yes but I feel like I have no energy I'm so lethargic especially doing something like CrossFit high-intensity like you know doing that like four or five times a week it may be like I wasn't really measuring my calories back then so I don't know maybe if I did paleo but I made sure of consuming enough calories that maybe so would've been as bad but I still just don't think like I know my body feels better when I'm getting like the big carbohydrate pre and post workout I feel like I'm better for my workout and I feel better recovered after my workout so that would probably be like my only thing with paleo when I was super strict was like the carbohydrate I mean I did it for about two months and then afterwards like yeah I looked real lean but I was so tired I'm now just dragging ass knee workouts what's the best thing to start doing to get rid of the guy Oh obviously the number one thing you can do to start getting ready to double two things right exactly diet and exercise but let me elaborate a bit a bit more on that right so you're number one of course is going to be your nutrition now am now more than that right it's really focusing on the quality of food that you're eating bro you know what I'm saying and Palio's be honest even a bot like if I had to if I had to provide okay what is one diet like that I was like okay I'm not gonna have time or they don't have time to literally like you know find out what every single food has right I probably would recommend something for paleo like something like paleo like if you got like some fat to lose right because it's high vegetables high protein moderate amounts of fat you're getting a little a little fruit right and your gig you're eliminating that processed food that right there it's going to immediately start flushing everything out right but if you don't want to say something like paleo again other folks I McCauley play bro when I started losing weight mmm I told you this already but when I started losing weight right all I did was I cut out all processed food I stopped eating McDonald's Chipotle subway I'm gonna how healthy you know that it says it is for you I stopped eating it you know what you know when I started eating and I wasn't measuring food or anything I started doing a bowl of oatmeal with like a handful of blueberries right and maybe I put some nuts in there right and like a few eggs that would be breakfast lunch would be a piece of cooked chicken with some with a cup of brown rice and loaded with vegetables steamed vegetables no no shouldn't it's steamed vegetables and then dinner same thing chicken or maybe like a piece of steak right with like a sweet potato and then vegetables and I drank nothing but water and then for snacks I'll have maybe like a handful of nuts in avocado maybe full and some peanut butter and that's that's literally all I all I ate that's all I did bro bro for 18 months that's all I ain't bro that's all they in the weight which is falling off cuz you guys remember I'm not sure I might just want to die then yeah I mean did like wake up but you have to remember dude it's like dude that's crazy I know and I and I and I need flavor I hear you dude I hear you but but you have to you have to imagine bro 18 months is nothing in the span of your life do you get what I'm saying like don't like you know like now but yeah do i season my food and get some flavor and whatever but dude I'm telling you at least for me I was you know I came to the real like dude like time flies and you know this right you know this time flies so like dude 18 months is nothing two years is nothing you can dramatically change your life and then look dude once you've got once you
got what you want ain't wanting to do then okay you can slowly start incorporating the stuff back and then and that's what I do you know what I mean now obviously like I mean I was just you know I was 300 pounds you know couldn't like walking up and down stairs I was getting out of breath you know I had an extreme situation just me like I'm cold turkey and I know some people can't do that and just slowly do a gradual start you know start incorporating more better quality foods yeah yeah I'm not overweight discussed the dad bod going yeah I feel ya so I would say that down on the nutrition side just focus on less processed food better quality food also known as a father pig as a father figure as like that's right that's right that's right and then I'm gonna exercise you know frame I mean dude walking well if anything walk like don't worry about like this remember I took like are a lot of people a lot of people get so caught up in like man I got to spend two or three hours in the gym you don't just be more active right just cuz you spent two hours in the gym doesn't mean you're a super active person move around even though I get in the gym I still do ten to fifteen thousand steps a day get it get the up and start moving around people we gotta move around we were meant to move around that will help lean you out like if you just start doing that this imagine if you were walking 10,000 steps a day now I'm just boost your overall activity level through the door through the roof man it really would so that's why I like I don't know so much people get scared when they're sitting like go to the gym like well what do i do at the gym what exercises do I do and there is you know high intensity there's Kluber blah blah blah blah dude even myself when I got started it was just walking bro yeah not for carcase up today bro 10 K steps at minimum everyday everyday like get up get up and go and go walk get up and go walk 20 to 20 minutes at a time people want out of the go island have a 10-15 minute smoke break you need to go have a 10 15 minute walk break but I work in the office you know renegade gamers I work at office too bro get up and take your ass outside to go and go and go take some laps around the building bro I'm telling you man I'm telling you unless you're like telling me you're really in a situation I'm gonna take breaks bro you need to is for your health it's for your help unless you're in a situation where you're like oh my ass literally has to be glued in my seat for the whole eight hours dude you got a lunch break and if you're like man I can't take a lunch break and just really like then yeah you better get up a half an hour early so you can go walk in the morning and then you better go walk for an hour in the evening hang out with the kids you know everyone on a big family walk or do even walk around the house do don't be sometimes even when it's raining outside bro I'm just walking around the house back and forth to get my steps just get caught up in work I know you got to make it a priority bro I set timers in my phone I said time timers in my phone like get up and walk I swear to God I do I swear dude I really truly do I set timers in my phone that will go off to tell me to go start walking I really do do whatever it takes man like whatever it takes but dude I promise you yeah do four or five thousand steps is nothing dude you got a 10k minimum before before you even take her ass on to the gym just get moving around bro at least 8000 steps 8000 steps that's what I would do so those would be my two my two things man try to incorporate less processed food and me out of nowhere your diets like right now but less processed food and then just start moving in between those two things you will start moving in the right direction you hear what I'm saying most of all that makes sense all right consider it done that's what I like to hear man cuz you know you don't want bro I heard this quote the other day I can't can't remember who I heard it from but it was like it was like if you want to if you want to stop starting over you got to stop giving up and I was like damn like that really hit me how many times in my life whether with fitness or with you know other even streaming we're like things weren't working out the way I wanted and I gave up and I stopped and then I like started again and I always you always got to have that question man I wonder like six months go by a year goes by damn I wonder if I had stuck it out for the past six months or year where would I be right now you know what I'm saying top legs dude I'm did I really mind me it truly did it mind me I was like damn it and I said I've had that moment all the time or I'm like like it really more recently it's been with streaming we're like okay like this time around like I'm like all right dude focus on creating value and enjoy the process when I first started streaming dude you get so caught up in I got to get my followers and you get discourage why the why the do I don't have a hundred viewers brother why are people jumping all over my Instagram and da-da-da-da-da and I just realize like dude you got to enjoy the process like who the are you that people are going to start blowing you up just when you get started you know what I'm saying so that's just what that losing weight is harder streaming this rough losing weight is harder I mean yeah what losing weight because losing weight dude it's like there's so many society is not conducive to losing weight right is that up but it's so true Society is not conducive to losing weight a lot of our activities are around drinking going out to eat right how often do you hear people are like oh you want it you want to go run with me yeah about the mothers will run a few miles you want to come hey I'm going to the gym you want to come no that's not like the typical hangout thing you know what I'm saying agree fast food on every corner you know what I mean exactly that's what it is I mean that's obviously what it is hello Allen brothers go for a job not yeah that's what I'm saying exactly right like that's just not how it goes you know I mean even as I started getting more into my lifestyle it some of my old friends I'd be like yo won't you come over with the gym they'll be like nah bro I'm good you know what I mean no one wants to do that don't worry Mike so society just not conducive to it but anyway it's not just like that that quote really like stuck with me and I was like you know like it's so true we give up so easily in the short term because it's hard because we don't you know cuz we haven't done it before and we're not seeing it results immediately and you know I'm just realizing that dude time flies and so like it's really is true if you wanna if you truly do want to stop starting over stop giving up you know give yourself any true change right you got to start thinking about what what am I going to achieve three to five years from now I mean renegade if you would have asked me in 2012 would I have six pack abs right now now I would have been like no way I'm like yeah maybe I can lose weight but six pack abs like like ripped ripped bond no way dude no way I would have been like you're no you're lying to me that's not possible you know what I'm saying so like you just gotta you just got it like stick with it you got to think about you know if sometimes it's hard for you to think about what you can achieve in three five years ten years you know what I mean start thinking start thinking about things in terms of that and just put your head down enjoy the processing grind and before you know you three years five five five years sighs bye and then you were like then are asking you dude what did you do how did you do it and they're expecting some complicated answer and it's not complicated right it's simple
it's just patience and consistency you know what I'm saying you know what you need to do renegade you know what you need to do you know that I need to start eating healthy I need to start moving around more you know that you already know bro it's just consistency every day and just being patient and that's what it is my man that's what it is bro it's that motivations that motivation you just got a connect man you just gotta admit I mean again for me it was more it was more drastic but you just gotta connect with that why am I doing this you know like that's another thing I was saying man we gotta start changing the conversation right break that laziness not giving up you know so changing the conversation right like health and fitness it's not about having a six-pack it's not about having you know amazing biceps right fitness and health it's got it it's got to be about I'm gonna be able to wipe my ass when I'm 80 I don't wanna have or I don't wanna be at risk for a heart attack in my 50s or 60s you know I mean I want to be able to play around with my grandkids you know what I'm saying it's about living yeah living a longer and being healthy that's what it that's what it is man it's really not like not obviously like living a healthy and fit lifestyle one of the one of the benefits that happen is you generally look good naked right right like I said I told you if you were to ask me why would I get abs I'd really hell no but yeah one of the benefits of I just been living a healthy and fit lifestyle is you got a lower body fat percentage and your muscles are more pronounced right but that's never been the goal the goal is just to live a fit and healthy life and so now as I'm sitting here in my 30s yeah I'm thinking about I'm thinking about when frickin 50-60 right I'm still labeled like when my kids 20 and he wants to shoot hoops I'm able to gonna shoot hoops with my kid I'm not like oh man like I can't move you know or when my kid has a kid and I'm like 6070 I'm able to pick my grandkid up I'm not you know with the Walker are with or whatever you know what I'm saying it's so like when you start thinking about that when that becomes the goal then do you like you're unstoppable when that becomes the goal you're unstoppable so that's our let's flip back here so guys so that was that was our that was our skit on our presentation if you will on on the Paleo diet like I said this was something new that I wanted to start doing in an attempt to bring more value to you guys .

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Low Carb Paleo Show 136 Cody Hopkins – Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative Interview

good morning Cody and welcome to the rockabilly Oh show thanks for having me good morning it's our pleasure a good morning mark how are you wonderful thank you can't complain well you know the rules nobody nobody listens when you complain - why bother right so Cody you are the CEO of grass roots farmers as I came across you great meat products at paleo FX 2019 and fell in love so we had to talk to you so regarding your background can you tell us about your professional background before and as you got into this business sure yeah well I'm a native arkinson grew up in rural Arkansas grip on a small family farm but we didn't really farm for profit it was you know but but I grew up really experiencing nature farm life and but you know ended up you know as many kids in rural America thought that I wanted to leave and go off to the city and and not coming back and so when I often got a degree in physics and then I got a job in the Northeast teaching high school physics and math at a college prep high school and moved away and did that for several years and sort of sprinkled along that journey I had a couple of different food experiences that really started pushing me to developing an interest in high quality food and looking at food not only as an amazing experience but also as medicine in a lot of ways and so while living in the Northeast I I worked at a restaurant that a James Beard Award main restaurant that was really kind of ahead of its time this was in the early 2000s before the local food movement had really gotten much steam here in the US and and had a couple experiences where I you know I didn't really like tomatoes but I tomato there that just blew my mind the flavor was so good and every night before diving service we would go over the menu and they would talk about you know make sure everyone knew where which farm the food came from and had the production methodology of how those farms were raising that the whether it was the corn or the pork or whatever it might be and if that really stuck with me and you know after a couple years of living up there I was I had decided that you know actually I really miss Arkansas and was eager to move back home and so moved back to rural Arkansas continued my passion from a developing passion and food managed a small bakery in the Ozark Mountains here in Arkansas and was it seemed to do something that was a little bit more you know tied to the land and you know I grew up on a small farm about 40 acres and it was something that that you know I just really wanted to get back to my roots I guess is the way to put it and about that time I met my now wife who was had just graduated college and was in you know grew up in the area where I was working at the bakery and we started and we both had this interest and were heavily influenced by a book be read by Michael Pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma yeah and I've read about some farmers doing you know some really innovative livestock farming where they were farming with the land improving the quality of the land producing these amazing amazing quality meats and and then going directly to the customer to to sell those products and developing a relationship with the customer and so it just you know that's kind of the Cliff Notes version my professional background and how it kind of led it led us lend me and then you know my now wife into into farming right right so as I understand what fruitfulness is not just you it's a combine different farmers growing different you know animals or products and can you explain the the principle of the business sure yeah so grass roots is actually a farmer cooperative so it is a group of farmers working together only as a cooperative to to share certain aspects so they're individually independent farms that share we work together we develop our consistent standards we all use the same production techniques the same feed and as a group we you know we work together to to sell our products under the grassroots brand and so and what that was born out of really was when we launched our farm in 2007 my wife and I from the beginning wanted to be not just a for-profit farm but we wanted to help educate other farmers on those production practices that were good for the land good for the animals and produce the superior quality and and from both flavor and health standpoint product and so you know we it was part of our mission from the beginning to help to work with other farmers and help other farmers succeed and what we realized as we started trying to grow our farm business was the the infrastructure that used to exist to support small family farms around the country no longer exists a vast majority 99% of the the meats produced in this country are produced by large industrial operations that that don't that small farmers you know support small farmers really so it's very difficult for a lot of barriers for small farmers to be able to succeed and so we saw working as a cooperative with other farmers as a way to start to break down some of those barriers for farmers and help farmers succeed and make it easier for customers to to get these kinds of products and so some of the things that we do as a co-op are we go we promote our message tell our story and help customers learn about what these farmers are doing we also help farmers you know we have technical we have people on staff that go out and train farmers on how to improve their production techniques how to become more efficient on their farms we do things like farmers our chicken farmers use non-gmo feed and we actually provide capital to those farmers to make it easier for them to expand their operations and so we help them cash flow some of their inputs and so we're doing all kinds of things along the value chain along the supply chain between the farmer and the customer that make it easier for the for customers to learn about and get these products while also making it easier for the farmers to succeed in their farm business sounds great you expending a sustainable way of farming and you're also in the process you are teaching people farmers to survive to live off their work instead of you know belly yeah and not only that but you also take care of that the the earth in this way in a sustainable manner which a lot of farmers have lost that knowledge so I think that's a great great standard and and one could argue that a lot of that will be very difficult if the internet didn't exist right absolutely yeah as you were saying that I'm thinking that one of the things that we do differently is a most agriculture over the past 75 200 years has been increasingly focused on least-cost production models which means like produce the chicken or the carrot or the tomato or the account as cheaply as possible right and so what happens when they do that is you you sacrifice all kinds of things for the sake of having the cheapest food you can possibly produce and that includes the environment animal welfare farmer welfare health for the customer and so you know we don't want it we want to prioritize those things we want to prioritize creating better soils we want to prioritize having a healthier product that customers that you know that benefits our customers that tastes better and we want to prioritize if farmers making a living wage doing this and so and that would not be possible if we had to go through the commodity market or our only option was trying to go through you know a a grocery store chain and being able to use the internet to connect directly with customers that are looking for this kind of product is a real game-changer for for for all kinds of businesses but certainly for the farmers that we work with it makes it possible for them to be able to do this right right so you have farmers all over the country right can you tell us where they are located now that this matter it's just to expand how widespread the operation is sure so just a little bit you know a background when we started though grass roots started in 2014 and you know we started from the game from the very beginning we partnered wi
th a wonderful nonprofit it's based out of Arkansas called heifer international efforts had a a presence in the US for 75 years now they've also they do a lot of their work and their know mostly for the international work but they partnered with grassroots farmers to help set up this value chain and provide the support we're providing for the farmers and the sort of seed that that business model and and so the initial group of farmers that started this in partnership with heifer were were based out of Arkansas and as we have it you've been able to grow our customer base it's been exciting to bring on more farmers and so now this year we'll work with somewhere between 30 and 40 farmers and we've expanded the farmers we have some in southern Missouri we have some in in in Western Oregon some beef farmers in western Oregon we have some in North Carolina some beef folks and grass-fed beef farmers we have some poultry farmers you work with in Texas and then some in Kentucky and so we are slowly expanding geographically to work with other groups of farmers that are meeting our standards and are facing the same kinds of challenges that that the original grassroots farmers were we're facing and and so it's exciting to be to start to work with a broader group of farmers and another thing to note is that everything that we sell is it has the grassroots label on it but we are very committed to going back to my my days working at Al Forno the restaurant the Northeast really impacted me we care deeply about transparency and traceability and so every single package that you get has a farm of origin stamp on it you know exactly what farm that came from and that's a that's a really important part important thing to me and the rest of the organization is really trying to educate customers on knowing your farmer knowing where it came from so that you know you can help to learn more about your products that more trust in in which we're getting right right so are you a farm with your local farmers today sell locally as well or just through you it depends I mean some sell just through grass roots some sell you know I might go to a farmers market and what we did what we found is that in the beginning farmers were selling a bit to the farmers market and a bit to grassroots but as grass roots has been able to grow demand you know find more customers attract more customers we've we've seen more farmers transitioning to selling more products through grassroots and so it's that's a exciting development and one of the things that's different about grassroots is that we are farmer owned and managed and so it's not like they are selling to a grocery store chain that could go out and find someone else who's going to be a lot cheaper you know this is an organization that's sort of the farmer for work you know we're thinking about farmers you know a lot and care about making sure farmers are making a livelihood and have security in doing this and so the way it's organized and governed this business is very different how prioritizes our relationships with farmers and other partners Jimmy are you open to accept more farmers you know yeah without the without requirements I I know one of my friend who runs a doc talk and ultra phone typically sells to restaurant locally but maybe it wouldn't hurt to for you to talk to him he does you know Doug brass and for God and things like that so that might be thing so uh you know once the show is over I would connect the two of you yeah yeah that sounds great yeah we actually don't have any duck farmers right now and that's something that that I would be interested in discussing now for sure we yeah and so and we have our we actually publish our standards or their websites we're very creates pattern about that right and we work with the farmers to make sure like one thing that's very unique about our chicken production and Turkey is that our chickens are you've heard the term free-range I'm sure yes free-range can mean a lot of different things they can simply be a chicken house with a hole knocked on the side of it and a dirt run around the outside of the chicken house and in a lot of cases the chickens don't go outside and if they do they're not on fresh grass and what grassroots farmers do is we actually have mobile pins that are on pasture that get moved every single day to fresh pasture and so that makes for a much healthier burn a much better flavor they get fresh grass every single day you don't have to use things like an ax Ericsson and it's better for the soil and a better farming environment too so I've seen that done that white oak forms in in Georgia I read their form we we interviewed him a couple years ago quite impressive yes juice a lot and solid that yes yes yes yeah yeah mark and I have been following this whole movement I mean I don't know if you remember would know but I'm a chef by trade so I've been supporting a kind of local food and all that so tell us about your quality standards what do you expect and require from your farmers to follow what kind of rules I feel tension non-gmo yeah so like I said we have our our standards are published on our site and so those are we require all the farmers to meet those standards the the beef is a hundred percent grass-fed and finished no grain ever you know they hey mate grass and you know that's yeah I think that's really speaking of so you come from you're from France I think that's really it's a really interesting terroir and the in the meats on the grass-fed side is the grass-fed beef side especially you also get that really across the spectrum all of our animals but definitely on the grass-fed beef and then also on the pork side so the pork you know I mean a consistent theme for all our all of our animals is instead of using a stationary confinement model which is the majority of the industrial meat in the majority of meat in the grocery store is raised in you know confinement operations where they are trying to produce it as cheaply as possible instead of moving the animals to fresh pasture they are giving them antibiotics and you know things that to keep them healthy when in an environment they really don't don't thrive in yeah and grown autumn and growth yeah they're trying to grow as fast as possible as cheap as possible and as you know less late you know the least amount of labor with you know our farmers you go to a grassroots farm the animals are always on the move and so the cattle are being moved once or twice a day to fresh grass and so what that does is it mimics the patterns you see in nature of herbivores moving across the plains and and you end up with you know better quality but their selection for the animals you don't get over grazing and you get nice long rest periods that allow the soils to thrive and then on the pork side we're actually we're ranging our pigs in a mix of pasture and forests and and they are also moving every you know once a week typically to a new area of forests or pasture and one of the great things about arranging the pigs and the forests is that they get access to all kinds of nuts and berries that they really love to eat so acorns hickory nuts muscadine grapes paw Paw's like all these different fruits and nuts that are really healthy for the animal and produce unique flavor profiles we just recently did a study on we sent some some of our port to a lab to have the omega-3 fatty acid ratio sampled and tested and the typical grocery store pork has about I think it was 70 milligrams of omega-3s and much of what the sample size was there but ours that same sample size ours had 700 milligrams so much like a you know 10 times higher omega-3 fatty acid content in in the same sample size at this point we probably should remind our listeners that Omega trees are the healthier type of offense and our brain functions on and it's not inflammatory where by the omega-6 or inflammatory intends to malfunction with the brain so to speak you know
and so that's why our ways and we always recommend grass-fed grass-finished or freeway because typically the animals meat contain a lot more omega-3s and regular industrial meat yeah thanks Redman that's a really important thing to highlight there so let's talk about the way you sustain your leg mm-hmm yeah what techniques using in you know you mentioned some of it already and so the same techniques we use to keep our animals healthy and to create a better working environment for the farmers and creates healthier food better tasting food also we get this is sort of the magic of it all there's a symbiotic relationship going on between the animals and the land that and the the consumer you know people that eat the product so there's a sort of symbiosis across this whole system here where we're not only making people healthier creating a better environment for the animals better environment for the farmers but we're also improving the quality of the soil so to give you an example we have we've tested fields on our pasture that when we took over in the phone were a head of organic matter which is the organic matter is a basically the humus in the soil that holds water and nutrients and the more that you have the better the quality of the soil so when it rains it'll hold more water when you know it's that it's a better seed bed it's a better you know the plants thrive a lot better and it creates healthier plants that will make the animals healthier and so one of the and also its sequester's carbon the more organic matter you have in the soil the more carbon that soil can pull out of the air let's let's address that issue because we're getting a lot of complaints from the vegan side of things about saying that beef is extremely detrimental the environment explain how your way raising your animals it's actually beneficial to the environment yeah so and we actually have that blog post on our site where we published this like these soil tests that showed the improvement in the organic matter and the so we were able to take a just one pasture that we sampled the organic matter went from 1.9 percent to almost for like three point nine percent organic matter now one way to show that that's improving the quality of the soil and how that impacts the environment is that for every percent organic matter increase you make in the soil an acre of soil that soil will hold twenty thousand more gallons of water when it rains right and so that particular acre is holding forty thousand more gallons of water because of the farming practices we've used to improve the soil so that's preventing runoff that's you know that's keeping helping deter grouts it's holding soil preventing erosion all kinds of things that you would not have in your traditional confinement production models where you end up with a you know a bunch of animals can find in one location where you have a concentration of manure and you end up with a waste problem versus improving fertility so please address the issue of the because we are bombarded with these global warming and blah blah blah can address the issue of the co2 captures so that you can actually justify your way of growing animals in being beneficial to the environment in general global environment yeah so let's see here I have a that here so actually in France we have France again they're say an initiate the French the French Ministry of Agriculture has initiative called the foreigner 1000 program alright and what they aren't promoting is that if the class across the globe on average we could increase the organic matter by 0.4 percent per year that would halt co2 that the annual increase in co2 right and to put that in perspective on our farm we have increased it by 37 percent per year so I mean we are you know like we have made enormous I think that there's a I mean they have the research to support this and this is not you know some liberal organization this is the you know the mystery of Agriculture in France promoting this and they have the science to back this up and we're showing that agricultural practices that we're using our you know far outpacing the benchmark they set and you know they are is I think that this is absolutely an attainable goal with the kind of production practices that we're using here now you know to go a little further down this track of you know should we eat meat or should we not eat meat all right so I am all for eating less meat but better quality meat yes I mean the average US consumer eats about 242 pounds of meat a year yeah so we think that's too much right but yeah exactly that's a lot of meat but we think that animals I mean our fertility comes from animals I mean when you separate animals from the farm and when we did that that's what happens we've separated animals from the farm and ended up with a confinement operation that create a waste problem and then a lack of fertility issue that is being addressed by chemical fertilizers and so you created two distinct problems one lack of fertility the other is a waste problem by separating animals from the farm so animals have a very important part in helping maintain and actually improve the quality of our soils right right I think we may be in trouble here you use the l word oh sorry sorry yeah yeah we know we'll keep it because we like to mark and I like to put the L ya know we're not necessarily against ml we're definitely against some of the you know policies and how they see the end of the world as you know as we speak and I guess you heard about the the new green do you have an opinion on that I don't you know I just it's the way I look at things is I see the world as I mean I love the and I'm very excited about the switch from sustainable to you regenerative yeah I think we can make the world a better place and I think that I feel pretty strongly that farmers have an important part in that and I think that it'll make consume you know make customers a lot healthier and I think that there's a I love the idea of this not being a you know government assistive program and instead this is us going direct this is really solving two distinct problems one is you know farmers are many many more than two actually but you get customers that are looking to be healthier looking for better quality products and you look farmers who are going to make a living farming in a way it's I've never met a farmer who wants to exploit the environment in their animals they just are just they're locked into a system that that sort of forces them to do that when they go out of business and so we're working to help solve connect you to solve those two problems by connecting the farmer and the customer and so it's really exciting like a market-based approach that to me is is not not top down is bottom up that's why we had lien grassroots right and what's impressive to me is that a young person like you would actually go out and encourage other young farmers to follow that path because a lot of young farmers are I feel stopped from going into Fahmy because they don't want to be part of that in just your system you just want to take care of the demand and the animals and so on so forth so III thank you for doing the work you do because that's extremely important for us for all of us yes farmers and us people as in general human beings yeah other reason why yeah this is important stat I think for everyone no but the average age of a farmer 60 years old today and so who's raised in our food in 10 15 20 years and so that's something that you're right young people do not want to get into industrial agriculture because it's not aligned with their values and it's uh you know it's a model that is increasingly becoming you know people just don't want to support that but we wanna make the world a better place not exploit the world for the cheapest meat possible right right speaking of that if you may allow me to be the devil's advocate for well you
know I'm also a nutritionist and what I meet clients and I tell them this is the kind of the quality of products you should be eating to stay it become more healthier to stay healthy and they say well this is way too expensive I can't afford this so some people will think of the kind of quality you provide is more elitist for like you know middle class upper middle class I can afford this kind of meat what do you say to that so one of the first things I say is do you know how much a Snickers bar costs per pan yeah no go ahead eleven dollars a pound by resident at grassroots co-op comm for less than that for less than $10 a pound right so I think yeah let me so we start there all right it's a matter how you prioritize how you spend your money right there's a lot more nutritional value in that it also comes down to people cooking like you you know it's true of nice thing about Snickers bars open it need it but people have to be able to cook you can take a whole chicken and get four or five six meals out of it depending on you know what you do with it and I think that I'm a real advocate for buying less meat and better quality I think there's a you know one of the things that I think Michael Pollan put the was the first person put this information together and in 1960 the average American spent seventeen point five percent of their income on food yep and in 5.2 percent on health care today that's totally flipped we spend 6.4 percent of our income on health and I'm sorry on food and in point eight percent on health care and so in my opinion I think there's a I mean it's correlation I mean you know but it seems like if people would spend much it's been more of their their budget on food I think they'd be a lot healthier and have an opportunity to spend less on health care and who had a much more pleasurable life too I think yeah let me tell you a little story I wrote a book because I thought that might be a good subject but I wrote about say out to heal out to eat healthy French cuisine for less than ten dollars a day uh-huh because a friend of mine challenged me and I was also replying to some of my clients complaining about the cost of healthy eating right and I sent my son out to check out the the cost of fast food mm-hmm you can easily if you eat breakfast lunch and dinner in fast food you can easily spend $15 sure in in garbage food I don't even call it food as even call it food not to mention all the packaging and all the waste generated and and the plastic and the paper and all of that so you consider that that you're actually paying all this money to eat garbage and for $10 a day I can prove it to you and actually put all the numbers together um that you can eat for less than $10 a day fresh healthy food right yeah can't sell the book and the book came out what pipes five years ago if I'd sold maybe ten in five years you know like and this is a cultural thing this in this country people have been brainwashed to buy convenience yeah everything is convenience everything's process everything is supposedly achieved short term but long term that's right you know like a friend of mine told me you know when when you compare the costs for example you know someone would complain that you know using my services is expensive and they say of you have you have costed out cancer lately yes yeah exactly ah right so you have to completely flip around your perspective from is it more important to spend a little more money on healthy food to keep you healthy and eat good quality food I'm a chef so my recipes are not just healthy they're good it tastes great yeah French recipes because my position is I diet if I put a client on a diet and the diet is boring and bland in you know they will never continue so I have to offer them good quality recipes and tasty and they can Dickens brag you know I'm eating French healthy food you know yeah but it's amazing how it's constant to the bottom to the cheap price when you pay I don't know a few dollars for a bag of sheep there's nothing but that for you instead of eating fruit for example just keep it simple right yeah yeah people have been so brainwashing to doing that that they when you when you expose them to another way of looking at it they are like they're completely lost I mean literally they're like they look at you like you're speaking of a complete different language I had a nice lady as a customer she had also served health issues she was eating breakfast lunch and dinner McDonald's I could I could not convince her to eat even one apple a day Wow Wow he just couldn't do it not even I said Widow BOGO why don't you order a salad it'll be a step in the right direction she's been she couldn't do it and she was a very nice lady and I just I had to give up on them because I just you know she's wasting our money and I'm wasting my time but yes this is what we're talking about so you and I and Mark and all those farmers out there are doing our best to provide the information and quality products to people and people should keep in mind that yes good quality food cost a little more but in the end it costs a lot less than doctors hospitals and medication right that's right yeah how many people are on multiple medications oh it seems like everybody these days right I mean it and they think it's normal yeah that's right I think it's normal you know what normal is is to be you know like Mark and I you know I don't remember mark are you over 60 I don't want is 21 in a bit it's just a very big people like me let's just not put mark in the picture here that is 66 years old and very good health yeah I did I do it mostly true nutrition I do exercise a little bit but not really that much considering the average American tendency to you know run and spend a lot of money on health clubs it's it's a whole concept garbage in garbage out if you put the orbit the body you're going to feel like garbage yeah yeah yeah matter how many hours in the gym you spend if you don't if your intake of food is not a high quality lower amount that's another issue which you address already is it's better to have higher quality but smaller amount of food of higher nutrition yeah and now not I did say overwork your system your body yeah because people will fit themselves or stuff themselves with poor quality food with no nutritional value yeah and they keep on eating all day because their bodies say you've you stopped me but you didn't feed me I'm not yeah you know so they constantly go up and down and eat snacks and you know to keep their level energy level weapon and then spend all that money and chains and all that which is ridiculous but yeah consider starting from the beginning which is the food we eat and and you basically I call it prevention medicine you know you put a little more in your food as medicine man you end up paying a lot less I don't I don't have any medication I don't take that's amazing that's as much on my health test every year you know with Medicare with not a no no problem yeah but it's so difficult to convince people to look at it this way as an America what's your what's your point of view on that yeah well I think that yeah it's so the customers up a large portion of the customers grassroots are have had some kind of health scare or have had somewhere the family had a health scare and they have seen the light you know that food is in what you eat matters right to your health we also have customers who see what you eat matters to you know the environment there's all kinds of things you know that the lowest cost meat or food production model externalizes all these things right health the environment animal welfare whatever it might be and so it's we're finding that customers are seeing that you have had some experience and then what really hooks them on top of that is the flavor is you know there's actually been interesting research around you know i
n healthier healthier vegetables and meats they have more nutrition have more flavonoids and so are you know they actually taste better have more flavor I was looking at a customer comment yesterday talking about how they never used to eat chicken drumsticks before and they they got some of ours and they were just amazed all you had to do is add salt and pepper too right so you say somebody they're on a on you know having to do something fancy with it right you can just roast it the other with salt and pepper and so you know we've we found that that there is you know we're seeing customers when the health Americans are not a healthy we're going to help the country and you know one of the reasons why is that you know our grandparents spent more on food than we do if that's a portion of income and that's a that's showing up it's catching up with us as a country and health care costs are skyrocketing welfare in people's welfare is you know is going down and and they are looking to exercise but also increasingly healthier foods to to help address that and in one of the things that we like to say is it's not just what you eat but but what you eat eats that matters right know especially the in the livestock side it's really important too to make sure that you know the chickens or the chicken or the turkey or the pork you know those are animals that are being raised and that are eating things that make them really healthy and that corresponds with a much healthier porkchop that takes a lot better to write so this way you don't have to use antibiotics like the commercial operation that's right yeah that's another whole different the 80% of the antibiotics used in the US are for livestock production yeah and that's just to make them grow faster and live in squalid conditions right which is terrible and also forgot to mention the the consequences on the water table of the pollution created by this operation yes yeah the runoff the Gulf and yes it's a it's absolutely terrible and so I think there's there's a lot of problems with our agricultural system and frankly a lot of the things that are being promoted like in the you know the clean meat probe you know area or hinge on certain crop productions that are going to increase that dead zone in the Gulf and and so we're not you know we're not saying we're still and we're advocating for less meat but we see me as being able to properly raise livestock as a way to to help reduce that erosion in and that runoff that's causing pollution in our waters okay I think we've addressed the tradition here in the environment issues so tell us about your line of product you know what do you offer how they start with what do you offer and then I'll move on to the next question sure so we offer it if you can grass its co-op calm you can order pasture raised chicken esterase turkey we have all different kinds of cuts and we also do for some pasture raised pork and grass-fed beef and we offer seasonally we have Leia breastfed lamb available - and all various kinds of cuts you can order what you want how you want and it's not a subscription it's a you get what you want when you want it and ship directly to your house and you know for it's all frozen frozen at the peak of freshness which is you know we do we really take that very seriously and yeah I'm just really great tasting meats that that don't take a lot of seasoning right right right another issue which I've seen with my own eyes when I went to is it white oak farms is how do you process your animals so we actually have our own processing facility that the majority of our animals go through we do work with one processor out in the on the west coast with the beef farmers in Oregon we work with but the majority all of our poultry go through a cooperatively owned processing facility and then the same thing the majority of the pork and beef do - and something we take extremely seriously for four years we actually process that you know we processed our owning our own poultry and we actually have farmers that go and spend time working the processing plant and it's a we we take animal welfare extremely seriously from start to finish there where you train the the employees that work there are good the visit farms and understand you know what you know how committed we are to trying to create in your the best environment possible for the animals and they want that to translate into the most humane and calm harvest experience possible at the at the end of the day for the animals right so we actually some rainbow that can that's control from start to finish and it's an important part of what we do you you already mentioned that earlier but just to repeat how do we know where our meat is coming from so every single package that you get from grass roots has a firm origin stamp on it that allows you to trace it back to the individual form we also have a QR code on it that you can scan and you can learn more about the whole journey of the animal from farm to fork so you can learn which farm it was raised on what day it was processed where it was processed more about the processing facility so we're very committed to transparency and giving our customers the the information they need to make an educated decision when they're finally do you do you follow any kind of certification program or I mean I understand you're not I mean some people might question that you're not USDA certified organic any other certification so our feed is all certified GMO free and then we have yeah we have not found production standards that are as rigorous as ours we are actually more rigorous than then the standards that exists out there like USDA like that the free-range for instance you can put those things and you're labeled but that just means that they're you know that can mean so many different things and so your our approach with our customers is and I think that's more important when you have a when you're sitting on the Shelf of a grocery store or trying to go through a restaurant distributor in our case we're going directly to the customer and we want to you know whatever our customers want to know we want to be able to give them access to and and so that's that's really where we publish our stands on our website we have you know open farm days where customers can come tour farms and visit our farms or even our processing facilities in fact customers come and do that before and so we take sort of a different approach that is more focused on developing a relationship with our customers and in buying them in to tell us what they want from us what do they need to see from us to feel good about to make an educated decision that yes yeah yeah yeah maybe one day it'll be one of those visitors yeah you should come up it's a great it's a great we actually have a couple of pasture poultry farms in Hillsborough so not too far away right okay now I'm not just a chef I'm also a geek so one thing that really intrigued me and this is the first time I've ever seen this it said you use the blockchain technology to track your product can you explain that in maybe non geek with okay I'll do my best so I'm not it so you know I say this a couple times and we're very committed to transparency with our customers and that's where we saw using blockchain technology as a way to help elevate that and so the way we use that is to help tell that create that journey from farm to fork that allows a customer to scan that QR code and trace that journey of the chicken from the farm to the processor to you know to their doorstep and so the blockchain technology is allowing us to do is it gives we're using an applicant partner with the company based out of the UK actually called provenance and they have developed the technology that helps show transparency in a supply chain and so we each member of that supply chain the farmer the processors the aggregator you know like they have their own user interf
ace and when a group of flock of chickens are going off to the processor then that farmer goes on and and it makes that entry saying that you know we're taking these this flock to the processor when they receive at the processor the processor is logging on to their account and confirming that what the farmer has delivered has is it matches up with what they received and and so it's what that does is each time that that's sort of that that flock is passed on through the supply chain there is a corresponding like peer to peer consensus moment where they are saying guess what happened that they're both confirming what happened here and so what what that doesn't seem like much but it's very different than what if you go into a grocery store all your your really having to trust that the front-facing brand is telling me the truth now or in some cases you're just trust in the grocery store in this situation you have each member of the supply chain creating basically making their there like transportation law of transparent to the customer and so the customer can have more detailed information that's not being input by the front facing brand but by each member of that supply chain so it really creates a different level of transparency and accountability that you don't you know like if you go and buy a an apple at the grocery store you might be lucky to find country of origin right let alone anything else same thing with a catch of pork in the case like you can see USDA number that would trace back to one of the product that the last processing facility but there is no way to go any further back than that and so we're using this technology to be able to give our customers the chance to trace all the way every single in a package of chicken breasts or a package of ground beef to trace that all the way across that chain step by step in a way that is really impressive yeah perhaps we should expand to to the listen that the production can now be altered yes right yeah what's that so what's that farmer in that processor make that data entry its conferred and it matches up then that can no longer being changed or altered by anybody and so if there's a you know a dispute between those two then then that you know like we can't hide that right and so there's a really sort of creates a different level of accountability and traceability esperen see I think it's fantastic I think the whole food the whole food environment should be on the blockchain does I mean we can buy meat with Bitcoin and not yeah we've talked about it there now yeah we actually have four international that the nonprofit we work closely with they are they do accept donations in cryptocurrency which is kind of cool so yeah you don't accept cryptocurrency yet oh when you're ready to do that yeah all right so I'll let market take over the hard questions what's the budget I mean some aid a few observation to go through and something I do want you to bring out is you know you've given us a lot of information where can people find more about you and where can they find the products so grassroots co-op so co-opt um and are you on sort of social media the you under grassroots go off on yeah very active on Instagram and Facebook especially excellent thank this grassroots with the nests and farms with the nets right yeah yeah god yeah okay just you're just making sure sure yeah peejoe oh I want to come back and address one thing right and that's the price you know Ellen mentioned it earlier that people complain that high quality meat is often comes with a high price but it seems to me the way you're working is you're cutting out most of the middlemen in the chain yeah that's right on guessing the customer actually gets much better value so I what we are doing is we have we're giving we're trying to maximize what we give back to the farmer so that farmers can make a living at a smaller scale using more it's just going to be more labor intensive production models so one of the challenges just a lot of e-commerce companies out there that are taking a more traditional appraisers right the ticking raisers that are produced in the typical razor factory and cutting out the grocery stores or the the middleman and selling that same razor for a dollar right and so what we're doing is we're going to all we're actually reconstructing the entire supply chain and so we don't have you know Dollar Shave Club is able to celebrate raiser for a caller because they are working with suppliers that are producing on the industrial scale we are not working with farmers that are producing on the industrial scale we are working with farmers that are raising flocks of you know five hundred chickens versus their you know that Ison farmer that's raising a flock of twenty five to forty thousand chickens right we process you know you know gosh one will process a couple thousand chickens in a day they will process hundreds of thousands of chickens in a day right so one of the challenges that we face on our we just have a higher cost of production because we aren't cutting we are cutting out the middleman but were also not we're being uncompromising on our standards and our commitment to the quality of the animal of quality of the environment and the the health of the product so that helped explain me a bit of that and it is kind of a trend that I see out there yeah you know cut out the middleman and it makes it cheaper and so I think it's it's cheaper than if you so one of the reasons why we haven't been able to get our product into Whole Foods is that we just hopefully just doesn't feel like they can charge enough to be able to sell this and you know and that's one reason why it's a shame because you get in a situation where they won't have the quality of the products in there if you go into a Whole Foods in the entire southwest region you'll be lucky to find anything above a gap to pork standard and what that means is it's essentially a factory raised hog and that's because they they're they're definitely built this brand around high quality but an uncompromising standards but they really do compromise a lot of standards yeah they don't want to charge too much for their products they don't want to be labeled it's all pain take anymore yeah and now that Amazon owns them it's gonna get worse that's right yeah and and so we just we've taken a philosophy that we don't want to compromise and believe that it works still we're still if they'll sell ground beef cheaper than a Snickers bar perfect yeah oh yeah yeah yeah that's the other thing you may show us that you you provide training is that training to farmers and to the general public oh we provide training to the farmers so we're helping farmers get better at raising their chickens or in some cases they may add a new enterprise to their farm or folks who are I mentioned heifer international earlier we work with them they have actually a training program where young folks that are interested in farming can come and spend time working on a farm to learn more about these production practices and then potentially become a farmer for grass roots and so we're helping upstart farmers get into this and we're helping farmers that are already existing farmers you know change their production practices improve them or maybe add new enterprise Thanks so do you also provide education for the consumer so we do through our blog and other in one of the things that we're working on for the very near future is the having a farm center where customers can come and if stay stay for a weekend stay for a couple days bring doing okay yeah EDS and see these productions in in practice and III learn more about you know the health benefits learn about cooking and something Farms is already doing something like this they they have a restaurant which used to be only for employees but since all the products are grown on the farm on the weekend they allow peop
le to come in and eat at the restaurant so they can taste a good food by the products right there the soul yeah yeah they recently started offering lodging so they have these sort of mini trailers where you know you can stay you know one two people you can have two trailers for that and these people to walk around actually I stayed there a week about two years ago and I stepped stepped out of my my lodging and it was chicken running around there was no pigs and everything I mean right around right there just as I open my door yeah I had a couple of kitty cats that adopted me I think they enjoy eating the quiche made by the by the restaurant so I fed them caged for that's great yeah so it is a great idea that allows customers to some of them the old enough for example I would say grandparents to bring their grandkids and expose them real food is about because you know I used to I used to teach in Korea new school and it was amazing how many of my students didn't have a clue where the meal was coming from and they look at the light chicken and is like oh so that's where a chicken breast is coming from right same with me you know I mean it's not something that anyone would want to see you know processing in anymore which oak forms allow me to see and then typically they don't show that customers unless they've really asked for it but it you know for any chef out there it should be required you know them to actually see how the food is so to their customers is handle them processed yeah absolutely super I mean just a sort of a less fuel question how do you guarantee sort of the GMO mono GMO in your new fish so that is going through a certifying body in that situation so and we we work closely with our feed mill that has direct relationships with the farmers that they're sourcing their their feeds from and so it's a section midnight group of farmers in southern Missouri so it's pretty close you know it's not like it's coming from international it is a fairly local to us but we are in that case relying on the certifying body then we do we do lots of different feed tests to make sure that we're getting is what we think we're getting you know speaking of which I understand that you only use American suppliers right no products from China from or whatever yes and that is that is a great support American providers well farmers are farmers farmers that provide food for your animals yeah yeah yeah everything to me all of our farmers are based in the u.s. they're all and all the the feed that we use concern you know from the Midwest and so yes we're 100% us-based that's great that's great you support local food system yeah yeah that's right so how do you give us a lot of information as I said is there anything that we should have asked and didn't know I think yeah yeah you went through it all pretty much so it was a great conversation and I really enjoyed it excellent Allan I think it's time to do the close it's time for my 20 close right yes so here we go thank you again the Cody for being in the locale paleo show and as we say in Texas about was Ontario here that everywhere in Texas everywhere .

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Hosts: Alain Braux and Mark Moxom interview Cody Hopkins
Cody Hopkins has spent more than 12 years developing a vertically integrated sustainable livestock farm. He began farming in Arkansas, with no prior experience, in 2006, soon after launching Falling Sky Farm. He and his wife Andrea Tody founded Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative in 2014, with Falling Sky Farm as one of the founding farms. Since then, the cooperative has brought in more than 20 farms across the U.S., all with the common objective of sustainable livestock farming.
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