Paul Saladino
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The Shawn Ryan Show · #179 Paul Saladino - The FDA Approved Poison You Eat Every Day · 5 Mar 2025
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Humans are also monogastric, and that will be relevant later when we talk about seed oils. But monogastric animals are... problematic because they accumulate polyunsaturated fats and a pig or a chicken is not meant to eat a lot of corn and soy, but that's most of what they're fed today.
So most of the big operations around chicken, even eggs for chickens and pork pigs are feeding them grains, which are corn and soy. And so you can see historically, and there's actual research done about this, that the fatty acid composition of these animals changes based on what they eat. It does the same for humans.
We can see derivatives of seed oils accumulating in human fat over the last 80 years because we're eating more of these seed oils, which come from corn and soy. And so the fat of a chicken doesn't look like the fat of an ancestral wild chicken. The amount of linoleic acid, which is an 18-carbon protein,
polyunsaturated fat is much higher in a chicken fed corn and soy than it would be in a chicken eating what a chicken is supposed to eat, which is bugs and worms and maybe a mouse every once in a while in the field. Chickens are pretty omnivorous and pigs are the same way. Pigs root, they're supposed to eat, they will eat small animals too. And they're supposed to eat tubers and things.
But when you feed a pig corn and soy, the fat of the pig changes composition. And these grains that most chickens and pigs are fed are not organic. And so you're getting bioaccumulation of pesticides. So you're getting glyphosate. I'm not saying that we shouldn't eat chicken and pork. I'm just making a case for maybe a hierarchy of quality.
If you're going to eat chicken and pork, look for something that's pastured from a farmer that you know. I don't want perfect to be the enemy of good for anyone, but there are considerations for each of these meats as we go along the food chain.
So I personally don't eat a lot of chicken and pork because it's hard to find people that are letting their chickens really range and actually eat what they're supposed to eat. The same with pigs.
And when we talk about seed oils, we'll talk about why I think excess linoleic acid is a problem for humans. It's a little technical, so I'll save it for this moment, but we'll get to it. But if you're going to eat pork, which is delicious and does have nutrients that are good for humans, and many cultures do eat pigs, or chicken, try and get something that's organic.
So that means the grains they're feeding the animals are organic, so you're not getting as much pesticide contamination. Even better, get it from a farmer-to-farmers market that is letting their animals kind of go more pastured in the settings. And then you have beef, bison, elk, let's call it red meat, lamb.
So what's interesting about these animals is there is a growing sector of the farming market, that agriculture market, where you can buy a grass-fed cow, grass-fed, grass-finished. Ruminant animals are supposed to eat grass their whole life. That's what they do.
In fact, I think there were surveys done in the 1800s that looked at the United States, and there were something like over 50 million ruminants in the United States. So elk, antelope, pronghorn, bison, that's what made sort of the American West and why that land was so fertile. We've monocropped it and decreased the quality of the soil, but the reason the American West...
west of Louisiana and the Mississippi was so fertile was because these animals were eating grass and pooping and peeing on the land and then stomping and putting all these nutrients from their poop into the land, which makes a healthy soil and that makes a healthy grass. And it just is part of this grassland ecosystem. So these animals are meant to eat grass and cows are kind of a cousin of bison.
And when a cow eats grass, you can see the difference in the steaks. I've done this in my content. You can see the color of the fat and the color of the meat is different. The fat of an animal that eats grass its whole life is much more orange because of the beta-carotene and other carotenoids in the grass that it's eating. A grain-fed cow has very white fat.
And to be fair, a lot of grain-fed cattle are actually grain-finished. Most of their life, they're eating grass, but the last 15%, they're taken to a feedlot where they're given lower-quality grains and it makes them fat. And then the farmers can get more money for them because they're a bigger animal and they sell them by the pound. Okay.
So ideally, and again, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Any red meat is healthy for humans and provides benefits for us and it's full of nutrients. But ideally, if you can source or find or afford a grass-fed, grass-finished meat, like a grass-fed hamburger or steak, it's going to be more full of nutrients and less full of problematic things that come with the grains.
Again, you're having pesticide accumulation in the meat. microplastics, PFAs, all that kind of stuff comes when they're fed grains at the end of their life.
It's not the end of the world, and I've eaten grain-fed, grain-finished meat, you know, and some people prefer it because of the taste, but I do think there's a pretty solid case that a grass-fed, grass-finished cow is the closest thing that most people will get to eating a wild animal. Wild game is probably one of the healthiest things we can eat, depending where it's ranging, right?
An animal that's eating what it's supposed to eat and this applies to humans also, is going to be a healthier animal. And all of us are different species, but there is, I think, in all of us, a genetic programming in terms of what we are meant to eat. Humans are the only species that's kind of forgotten this because we've become so separated from the actual gathering and hunting of our food.
So we don't know what we're supposed to eat.
The way the labeling is now, if it says grass-fed, it really should be fed grass its whole life.
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