Paul Saladino
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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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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There's an asterisk there because some farmers can get away with this by feeding hay, which is not fresh grass on a field, or even grass pellets. So there was a picture or a video that went around the internet recently of cows indoors getting fed grass, and that is grass-fed.
It's not ideal, but it's better than a grain-fed cow on a clustered or concentrated feeding animal operation, so a CAFO, or a factory farm. So grass feeding is better, and again, it's unfortunate that it's become so arduous for humans to have to really understand the quality of their meat. But if you see the cows that you're eating and you're talking to a farmer, that's the best thing.
I know it's not possible for everyone listening to the podcast, but if you can understand the quality of your meat and where it's coming from and how it's raised, that's better. So grass feeding and grass finishing ideally should be cows on pasture outdoors. you know, pooping and peeing in the land because that's also better for the land. That's the way it should be.
If it says grass-fed in the store, it really is meant, unless the farmer is being totally duplicitous, it should be fed grass its whole life. There's an interesting little sidebar here, and I will call Whole Foods out for this, and I've done content on this. There is meat at Whole Foods that says grass-fed or grass-finished, and there's meat at Whole Foods that says pasture-raised.
And so that pasture-raised designation does not mean the cow is eating grass its whole life. And you can ask the butchers at Whole Foods and they will be forthcoming with you and say, it was on pasture and then it was fed grains at the end of its life. So that's where it gets confusing for consumers because pasture-raised sounds pretty good to me, but that's not a grass-finished cow.
And do I think that eating grain-fed meat is bad for humans? No. I think that eating grass-fed, grass-finished meat is better for humans and better for the ecosystem in which the cow is raised.
In Costa Rica?
So there's farmers markets. Where I live, there are three farmers markets a week. And I can talk to the farmers and I can say, is this organic?
Yeah.
I think you do the best you can with the opportunities you're given. So for instance, in Austin, which might be a little easier than most, it's not exactly a food desert. There are Whole Foods in Austin. There's Central Market in Austin.
Yeah, I know, but it's better than a regular Safeway, I think, right? I'm just using it as an example. Whole Foods is okay. I'd give Whole Foods mid-rating.
Maybe five. Oh, yeah, three out of five. I was going to say five out of ten, yeah. Whole Foods is probably three out of five. But look, a lot of things we're going to talk about in this podcast are going to seem overwhelming for people. I just want to provide information. My goal is just to provide information that's as digestible and usable. And I don't want perfect to be the enemy of good.
So yes, the ideal thing is meet farmers in your area, go to farmers. If you can't do that, you don't have time. I do think that the return on investment, the ROI on going to a grocery store and cooking your own food is massive. for most of us. And if someone can afford to have an assistant go shop for them or to have a chef, great. That's probably a 0.1% of all of us who can afford that.
But I think all of us need to understand that life is about choices. And I see this as an entrepreneur now. I'm a traditionally trained doctor, but now I think about ROI. Like you, I think, what's the best use of my time? What is the return on investment?
And I know, for me, that spending two hours surfing in the morning, I could be working, quote unquote, but the return on that investment is massive in terms of my happiness and my health and my ability to show up, hopefully, to podcasts like this and be eloquent and provide value.
And I would say, similarly, going to a grocery store and buying your food and cooking it for yourself, that is one of the best ROIs, I think, that is available for humans, hands down. I mean... It's not a financial return on investment, but in terms of your health, which is an indirect financial cost later. It is very, very difficult if you do not procure.
Hunting and gathering today happens in grocery stores. You must do your own hunting and gathering today, and you must cook your own food. If you don't do those things the majority of the time, you don't have to do it 100% of the time, it's going to be difficult to be optimally healthy, and your health will suffer. This is why I created things like lineage, right? Here's a snack.
that I've created something that I would eat, the highest quality standards that we can source anywhere in the world, right? So there are things that can make it easier, but I wouldn't want you to live on lineage meat sticks, right? You could do it for a little while, but it's kind of like a ration, right?
Like I want you to eat a hamburger sometimes and to eat some fruit, maybe some vegetables if they don't bother your immune system. So I think that understanding where you can find the best meat and plant foods close to you, that's a good thing. You need to know your terrain. And there are food deserts in the United States where it's not easy to even go to those places.
It's not easy to find a grocery store, but I mean, I've done content where I'll go into a 7-Eleven or a gas station and say, even in here, there are better and worse choices. You know, even in a gas station, you can find the best jerky. It's not going to be an ideal jerky. It might have nitrates, but look, it's better than eating
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