Do you know where your food comes from? Specifically, have you actually met the farmer who produced it? Chances are better than even that you have not, and unless you live in a very rural area, or happen to be a city-dwelling farmers market aficionado- you never will. Your meat and produce will continue to appear at your local grocers magically, and you will buy it, eat it, and likely have very little connection to where it came from.

As we as a society become more conscious about our health and food choices, it's more important than ever that we become increasingly discerning about not only the quality of our food, but also its origins.

In this episode, our guest Anya Fernald takes us deep into the heart of the 'Farm to Table' food movement, by walking us through the fascinating process of how she went from chef to farmer, to restaurateur with her company Belcampo Meat Co.

Anya is not only an inspiring thought leader, and entrepreneur but a bonafide expert when it comes to how to not only produce the healthiest food on the planet, but also how to avoid many of the inhumane and ultimately toxic practices present in our current industrial farming model. You will be shocked to find out some of the dirty trade secrets, and shady food-labeling scams currently used by the mega-farms, and restaurant industry.

This is not only a highly educational episode, but also one of true inspiration for anyone interested in breaking the mold and creating a new business model that makes a positive impact on the world, and all of it's inhabitants - animals included.

Don't forget to share this episode with anyone who loves to eat, and wants to learn how to find the healthiest, and highest quality food available.

To your health,

Luke

EPISODE BREAKDOWN

• Gruesome conventional beef farming model, and the stench
• Hormonal changes and premature sexual maturity around puberty
• Animals not ready for harvest: the conventional approach vs. grass-fed beef maturation
• The paradigm of government subsidies explained, and how farmers get hosed by them in a way that does not serve the farmers, the environment or the consumer
• Commodities, economic mechanisms and conventional farming liabilities
• GMO Roundup, soil death, erosion and flooding: the systemic uprooting of the entire food ecosystem
• Labeling regulation: discerning true and false
• Don't be fooled by "grass-fed" labeling! Learn why "grass-finished" matters
• What does "organic" beef mean?
• What's worse for the environment: monocrops of vegetables or rotating herds of livestock?
• Eggs labeling: decoding free-range, pasture-fed, cage-free and organic
• The dirty little secrets of chicken farms and factory farming
• Pork husbandry, breeds, and what to look for on the label
• Lifestyle recommendations

Here's PART ONE

ANYA'S LIFESTYLE RECOMMENDATIONS

• Carlo Petrini, creator of slow movement
• Wendell Berry and his appreciation for traditional farming techniques
• Patience Gray book (below) on living off the land and foraging

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