Joel Salatin

Well, because in a concentrated animal feeding operation, you know, a big confinement chicken house or a piggery or a beef feedlot, whatever, the social and dietary aspects of that are stressful on the animal.

There aren't supposed to be 20,000 chickens in one house breathing fecal particulate all day, blocked out from fresh air and sunshine.

That's not the way a chicken's supposed to be raised.

And so in that stress, what happens when you're under stress?

You tighten up, don't you?

You get, I mean, that's how a hundred pound mom can pick up a car off her toddler, you know, if it falls.

But after that, you know, she's shaking and all tits.

So you tend to stress, you secrete adrenaline.

and they tighten you up.

Whereas when you're relaxed and happy, you relax.

And so we've determined that the reason everything we do cooks 15% faster is because our animals come happy.

They don't come stressed with adrenaline.

They come happy.

And so the question then obviously becomes, can we eat happiness?

And I suggest, yes, we can eat happiness.

Now, I don't want to go down there too far.

I'll be really branded a kook.

But I do think, realize our microbiome of billions and billions of microbes, they are very close cousins to everything that's outside of us.

And our mouth is a gateway.

And everything, our gut, our microbiome, everything it knows about the world,