Dr. Christopher Gardner
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If you saw what was happening, not just to the animals, the way that they're raised and the speed, the line speed. Part of this is the way the humans are treated who are in the meatpacking industry. So it's a very repetitive job. There's a lot of injuries in that situation. And it's part of the reason we have very inexpensive meat that's very inaccessible.
If you saw what was happening, not just to the animals, the way that they're raised and the speed, the line speed. Part of this is the way the humans are treated who are in the meatpacking industry. So it's a very repetitive job. There's a lot of injuries in that situation. And it's part of the reason we have very inexpensive meat that's very inaccessible.
There's a guy named Timothy Pacherot who, for his doctoral thesis, went and worked in a slaughterhouse for a year undercover and published a whole book on this. And the title of the book is Every 12 Seconds. And the reason it's titled that is because a new cow came through the slaughter line every 12 seconds, every day, all day, every year.
There's a guy named Timothy Pacherot who, for his doctoral thesis, went and worked in a slaughterhouse for a year undercover and published a whole book on this. And the title of the book is Every 12 Seconds. And the reason it's titled that is because a new cow came through the slaughter line every 12 seconds, every day, all day, every year.
There's a guy named Timothy Pacherot who, for his doctoral thesis, went and worked in a slaughterhouse for a year undercover and published a whole book on this. And the title of the book is Every 12 Seconds. And the reason it's titled that is because a new cow came through the slaughter line every 12 seconds, every day, all day, every year.
And that the ability to protect some animal rights and welfare, the ability to protect the rights of humans, to have some dignity. I like people peeing in bottles because they can't leave the line. They can't even take a bathroom break. It's a messed up food system. So I had an interesting debate with Mark Hyman the other day. who's all into regenerative meat. You mean like regenerative farms?
And that the ability to protect some animal rights and welfare, the ability to protect the rights of humans, to have some dignity. I like people peeing in bottles because they can't leave the line. They can't even take a bathroom break. It's a messed up food system. So I had an interesting debate with Mark Hyman the other day. who's all into regenerative meat. You mean like regenerative farms?
And that the ability to protect some animal rights and welfare, the ability to protect the rights of humans, to have some dignity. I like people peeing in bottles because they can't leave the line. They can't even take a bathroom break. It's a messed up food system. So I had an interesting debate with Mark Hyman the other day. who's all into regenerative meat. You mean like regenerative farms?
Regenerative farming? Yeah. Yeah, on regenerative ranches and said, you know, he's all against the CAFOs, the concentrated animal feeding operations, if we could just move all those off to pasture. And he said, yeah, we could just do that. And I said, do you know how much pasture that would take? That would take like three planets of agricultural land to move the millions and billions of cattle off
Regenerative farming? Yeah. Yeah, on regenerative ranches and said, you know, he's all against the CAFOs, the concentrated animal feeding operations, if we could just move all those off to pasture. And he said, yeah, we could just do that. And I said, do you know how much pasture that would take? That would take like three planets of agricultural land to move the millions and billions of cattle off
Regenerative farming? Yeah. Yeah, on regenerative ranches and said, you know, he's all against the CAFOs, the concentrated animal feeding operations, if we could just move all those off to pasture. And he said, yeah, we could just do that. And I said, do you know how much pasture that would take? That would take like three planets of agricultural land to move the millions and billions of cattle off
out of the CAFOs into there. So I would like to move in your direction where some meat would be fine. if it was raised in a way that didn't require hormones, didn't require antibiotics, didn't require feeding cows corn and soy. They're supposed to graze on grasses and the corn and soy give them health issues.
out of the CAFOs into there. So I would like to move in your direction where some meat would be fine. if it was raised in a way that didn't require hormones, didn't require antibiotics, didn't require feeding cows corn and soy. They're supposed to graze on grasses and the corn and soy give them health issues.
out of the CAFOs into there. So I would like to move in your direction where some meat would be fine. if it was raised in a way that didn't require hormones, didn't require antibiotics, didn't require feeding cows corn and soy. They're supposed to graze on grasses and the corn and soy give them health issues.
And so they have to be treated prophylactically for the problems they'll have digestively with that. If we could go back to sort of the old animal husbandry of the day when the cattle and the pigs and the chickens were on pasture, we would eat a lot less meat. But we would eat meat that was raised appropriately and would be more healthy.
And so they have to be treated prophylactically for the problems they'll have digestively with that. If we could go back to sort of the old animal husbandry of the day when the cattle and the pigs and the chickens were on pasture, we would eat a lot less meat. But we would eat meat that was raised appropriately and would be more healthy.
And so they have to be treated prophylactically for the problems they'll have digestively with that. If we could go back to sort of the old animal husbandry of the day when the cattle and the pigs and the chickens were on pasture, we would eat a lot less meat. But we would eat meat that was raised appropriately and would be more healthy.
And that would be that middle of the road where we were having multiple types of wheat, not just the one grain that grows right. We wouldn't be monocropping corn. We wouldn't be monocropping soy, which is mostly going to livestock feed or fuel. Very little corn or soy that we grow in the U.S. is eaten directly by humans as corn or soy.
And that would be that middle of the road where we were having multiple types of wheat, not just the one grain that grows right. We wouldn't be monocropping corn. We wouldn't be monocropping soy, which is mostly going to livestock feed or fuel. Very little corn or soy that we grow in the U.S. is eaten directly by humans as corn or soy.
And that would be that middle of the road where we were having multiple types of wheat, not just the one grain that grows right. We wouldn't be monocropping corn. We wouldn't be monocropping soy, which is mostly going to livestock feed or fuel. Very little corn or soy that we grow in the U.S. is eaten directly by humans as corn or soy.