Joel Salatin
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It goes into a crop, a crawl.
OK, and ferments in this wet bag.
And then it moves into the gizzard, which is a grinder.
It's a physical it's a muscle that just sits there and grinds and grinds.
That's why they eat rocks and stones.
They got grinders and it goes straight into the into the intestine.
The chicken doesn't have a stomach and they don't and they don't pee.
I don't know how that all works in the chicken world.
But what I'm getting at, yeah, the same diet, habitat, environment for a chicken would not be the same you'd have for a pig or a cow or whatever.
That's the idea.
And so when we raise these animals, we're in livestock, we're in pasture livestock farming.
And so when we raise these animals, our first question is, well, what is unique and distinctive about this critter?
How can we create a habitat that allows it to express its distinctiveness, its uniqueness?
And so, for example, cows, we don't feed cows any grain.
The herbivore in nature, yes, it picks some seeds off, seeded out grasses or whatever, but it doesn't eat grain as a large percentage of its diet at all.
And so we grass finish.
So we're in the grass finished business.
And what's interesting is the Bionutrient Food Association
has just completed basically two years of study where they're looking at what is the single most common denominator that determines the nutrient density of beef.
They started with carrots, then they did broccoli, and now they're doing beef.