Digital Social Hour
Secrets Big Food Doesn’t Want You to Know | Ryan Griggs DSH #1369
Sun, 11 May 2025
Are you ready to uncover the shocking truths Big Food doesn’t want you to know? 🥩 From the hidden impacts of pasteurized vs. raw milk 🥛 to the decline of nutrient-rich food in our grocery stores, this episode is packed with valuable insights on how your food choices affect your health and the environment. 🌱 Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as he sits down with our guest, Ryan Griggs, to tackle polarizing topics like the benefits of raw milk, why farmers and ranchers are under attack, and how reconnecting with your food can transform your life. 🍓🐄 Discover why local farms and regenerative agriculture are the keys to healthier meals, stronger communities, and a better planet. Don’t miss out on this eye-opening conversation that challenges everything you thought you knew about food! 💡 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more impactful stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - Benefits of Raw Milk 04:57 - Today's Sponsor 06:06 - Honesty in Health Discussions 11:37 - Veganism and Regenrus 17:24 - Launching Regenrus and Agriculture Insights 21:01 - Government Overreach in Food Regulations 23:31 - Ostrich Farmer Raid Incident 25:53 - Misleading Food Labeling Practices 27:18 - Societal Health Overview 29:24 - Food as Medicine Concept 33:28 - Modern Toxins Impact 34:53 - Captured Industries Explained 35:54 - Beef Industry Insights 38:17 - Conventional vs. Regenerative Agriculture 40:09 - Finding Ryan Online APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Ryan Griggs https://www.instagram.com/regenaissanceman/ https://www.instagram.com/theregenaissance/ https://theregenaissance.co/ SPONSORS: NOTION: https://www.notion.com/dsh LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ The views and opinions expressed by guests on Digital Social Hour are solely those of the individuals appearing on the podcast and do not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of the host, Sean Kelly, or the Digital Social Hour team. While we encourage open and honest conversations, Sean Kelly is not legally responsible for any statements, claims, or opinions made by guests during the show. Listeners are encouraged to form their own opinions and consult professionals for advice where appropriate. Content on this podcast is for entertainment and informational purposes only and should not be considered legal, medical, financial, or professional advice. Digital Social Hour works with participants in sponsored media and stays compliant with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations regarding sponsored media. #ad #rawmilk #agroforestry #permaculture #integratedfarming #rawmilkvitamins
Chapter 1: What are the benefits and controversies of raw milk?
All right, guys, got Ryan here. Make milk raw again. Let's go. Yes, sir. It's been a while since that was a normal beverage in America.
Yeah, yeah. The biggest thing I really want to talk about in the context of raw milk, because that's such a polarizing topic, especially on social media, It's interesting whenever I post on my Instagram about raw milk, you look at the comments that are loving it or the complete opposite end to where they're just telling you that you're going to kill everybody and it just should be illegal.
But there's one protein that I see that's not talked about a lot and that's lactoferrin. Have you heard of that? No, I haven't. So it's an incredible protein found in raw dairy, but then also in breast milk too. But- One of the topics that are talked about just raw dairy and dairy in general is immune health because that's some of the claims with raw dairy that it helps with your immune system.
But then on the flip side, people say there's no benefits at all. Lactoferrin is a huge protein that really helps build that up. So I know there's all these phrases, but it's really true with lactoferrin. It's antimicrobial, antifungal, anti-cancer, anti-aging. It's huge with your white blood cells. So it actually helps boost the production of that. It binds to iron.
And so, or not, let me back that up. It binds to pathogens within your body. So it stops the spread of it. So that also plays to why it helps with your immune system. But then also for folks with low iron or anemia, Lactoferrin is really good for that too. And so when you break down the actual components of raw dairy, there are so many like that to where it truly does build your immune system.
And that's why we deserve the right as humans and Americans to choose between that. Because that's not my argument is we should legalize raw milk and then make pasteurized milk illegal. No, we should just have the freedom to choose between the two. And right now we really don't. I mean, in Nevada, it's very, very tough to get- Yeah, it's banned here.
So if you were to get it, you're pretty much doing it just behind closed doors, essentially. And that's just so ridiculous. But fortunately, more and more states are starting to open up to that.
North Carolina, there's so many other states that have bills that they're in the middle of pushing rather to be actually starting to sell milk, but has to be labeled as pet food milk, or you can get it straight from the farm itself. Or there's one to where North Carolina, they're pushing it for... sales in grocery stores or farmer's markets. So the good thing is it's starting to really open up.
But yeah, it's just funny to see how polarizing that really is.
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Chapter 2: Why is food disconnection a root problem in health and society?
But then through just hyper-specializations in America, because capitalism goes towards just hyper-efficiency and whatnot, because that's huge for our culture too. But then you just go into really specializations to now where people are getting door dash and they're not... growing their own food. They're not even buying their own food and they're not even cooking their own food.
And so I can just give many examples of that. And that's just one particular example. But then you think about like, say Ozempic too, we try to just cheat everything. We want it quick, quick, quick. I actually saw a tweet a couple of days ago, how someone bought potatoes to plant and
She genuinely expected it to be grown the next day and she didn't realize that it took, she's going to have to wait a couple months. And then that got like 30 or 40,000 likes on Twitter.
And I was reading the comments and there's so many other comments sharing how they had similar experiences where they bought some type of food they wanted to grow and they had no idea that they had to wait for that. And even just that, it's just, it's sad. Cause I wasn't, I commented on it.
I wasn't trying to dunk on that person, but that's just kind of where we're at in a society now to where we expect everything to just solve itself quick. And, uh, That's why we have to be patient, especially with our health and food, if we want it to fix long-term. And that's, again, to me, it's going to require a paradigm shift because of just how we think on everything now in America.
And I mean, you have an autoimmune condition. If you were eating out all the time, it probably would make it even worse.
Oh, yeah. And that's another thing, too, is whenever you're sick, like the one thing you notice whenever, say, you can't breathe through one nostril, that's all you focus on. Like, I can't wait to start breathing again normally. And whenever you're sick, that's all you really think about, too. And when you think about America, most people are sick.
And that's why whenever talking about COVID, how over a million Americans died from that, To me, there's no surprise with that. Whenever you take 75% of this country is overweight, severely obese, morbidly obese, and you have something like COVID come in, that's going to wipe out a lot of people. And that we're just not honest with ourselves either.
Cause that was my whole problem with the fat acceptance movement. Cause I had, I mean, I was severely overweight and unhealthy growing up and had really bad issues with self-confidence and image and all that. But if we're not being honest with one another and genuinely believing that you could be severely overweight and still be healthy and That's where we're at in society now.
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Chapter 3: How did personal experiences shape Ryan Griggs' views on health and agriculture?
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That's actually pretty good. But when you compare that to anybody else. Those track kids are fast. And I had a good, the school I went to was good for track. And so they were just straight killers. But I also remember too,
going back to just your mindset, I remember I was in the stands talking to one of my friend's dads and I just kind of felt embarrassed, but he was just like, dude, I'm sitting up here and you're running. And that kind of, even that was just like so simple that there's so many people not doing the work. And even though I'm getting absolutely decimated and laughed by people, I'm still running.
And so just that little mental shift too could help too, that not comparing yourself to everybody else, just comparing yourself to how you were the day before. could really pay dividends because it did for me. Yeah. Did you go vegan for a period of time? Two and a half years. Were you really weak when you were on that diet?
Yeah, but that's also because, so that was towards the tail end of that, I was taking care of my brother. So the whole reason why I started my brand Regenissance and why I talk on raw dairy and agriculture overall was what I've gone through with my family. So at the start of the pandemic, pretty much right at the beginning, I get news that my older brother has stage three colon cancer.
And so obviously that just my whole world stopped with that because up until that point, I had a fairly straightforward, easy life. No major health, family, stuff like that. But then fast forward to September of 2020, we're told it's in remission. So great. I go back home. We celebrate. Two months later, my dad calls me. Not only did his cancer come back, but it advanced to stage four.
So in that regard, looking back, I have no idea what went wrong from the healthcare, how they messed that up so badly. But then the first six months of 2021, I go back home to be his caretaker and watched the chemo, opioids, and all the treatments happen. literally torture him alive. He was being tortured alive for six months and it was psychological torture to watch.
On top of that, I was taking care of my mother too because she was forced to retire from her health in 2019 or from her teaching career because of her health in 2019. So she had diabetes. She was on medication for that. She had shingles and gout, anxiety, depression, medication for that. She had coronary artery disease, the most common heart disease.
Her kidney and livers were both failing and she needed transplants for both. But because of her heart condition, she was deemed inoperable. And then in total, she had 14 liters of fluid drained from her lungs. So just think of like 14 water bottles. Oh my gosh. 14 of these in total from her lungs. Holy crap. And so she was massively suffering too. And yeah. Yeah.
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Chapter 4: What challenges do farmers and ranchers face today?
I started learning a lot on Twitter too, realizing I was wrong about veganism, that animal protein has been at the center of our diet our whole life, our whole existence. That's how it will always be too. But then I started really thinking about the moral ethics standpoint of it all.
Because that's the one thing vegans are right about when talking about, you know, factory farming and a lot of the videos they've shared online. There's a lot of truth to that. I agree with that part of it. Yeah. And most people are starting to agree with that too.
And so once I started actually talking to the real farmers that aren't doing any of that, I realized how can I help bring them to the limelight and then also bring the consumers over and realize that there's a better alternative and path. And so we have to support them because this industry overall, it's already insanely tough for farmers and ranchers to get by, even make a profit at all.
Yeah, because they're competing with big food.
Yeah. And then in every, pretty much every part of it, even like the processing has just been completely captured and who loses it out, the people that are actually doing it all. And so that's kind of why I've gone about where, what I've done with, with my brand is going from an educational focus.
I talk with the farmers and ranchers and all the other folks involved in agriculture, because there's a lot that it takes to, to do. And yeah, Yeah, I'll just leave it at that because it's just fascinating to how we've gotten where we're at in our culture worldwide, but in America. Because agriculture, the 1800s, you think about the bison and cattle and the massive cattle drives. That was huge.
And now, again, most people... Have never been to a farmer ranch.
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Chapter 5: What was the South Dakota ranch legal case about?
There's people that genuinely believe food comes from a grocery store um, and All of that to me is because we're just so disconnected from the very thing that sustained us And it's only getting worse now with these grocery delivery ops people won't even be going to grocery stores anymore And you can even get uh, they partnered up with clarna.
I believe doordash did so you can even get Uh payment plans for that. That's crazy Yeah.
Damn, that's nuts. Yeah. Amish farms are amazing. Every time I find a good one, they get rated. So I have to constantly switch suppliers. Another big problem is the shipping cost is so much to the West Coast because most of them are on the East Coast, right? Yeah. So I have to pay like 200 bucks for shipping. So if I am going to order, it's going to be like a huge order.
did you have you bought it from amos miller's farm i think so i might have because i like yeah i like raw cheese too so that one sounds familiar yeah well they're the one of the ones that got really majorly rated in pennsylvania really and pretty much the biggest reason why the amish came out in record numbers in pennsylvania to vote because they just want to be left alone and they were just getting destroyed by the government has that stopped since the new administration came in
Overall, it seems to be trending that way. So actually yesterday, there was a major, major case that happened in South Dakota with, they're the Moud family. And they've had this piece of property in their family line for, I believe, five generations since before the 1910s. And then last year with the National Forest Service tree,
This anonymous hunter made a complaint about their fence line, claiming that it was in conjunction with the National Forest Service tree and that they needed to adhere to that. But the thing is, the Moud family, again, has had this, their whole, I think, fifth or sixth generation ranchers. They've complied with everything that's need be, have not done anything wrong. And then all of a sudden,
They had this. In the first 90 days from that complaint, by the end of that, they had people show up at their doors in tactical gear. They then put a gag order on them Each husband and wife were facing up to 10 years in prison. Wow. $250,000 in fines. And this was just a massive ordeal to where the hearing was actually happening in April.
Fortunately, yesterday, the case was dismissed and the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, actually made a post about it. And this is why I'm also going from awareness and educational because I truly believe that how that happened was people just were sharing that like crazy online because there were so many other incredible folks doing work on the back end to really help drive that.
Um, but I think about all the families that's, that's happened to, to where they didn't get the help and you just get screwed. I mean, these families, again, they're just doing ranching. They just want to support their families, their communities, be outside, um, But yet this family almost faced 10 years in prison.
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Chapter 6: How does modern agriculture impact food quality and taste?
It's just all facade. And so a lot of people too with this whole avian flu thing, they go through it from a PCR test, which is very fraudulent because you can essentially, if you do enough PCR tests, you're going to get the results you want. And that's how they go about it with the avian flu in America. But this happened with her in Canada too, where they just did a boatload of
PCR test, got what they wanted. And now they're just trying to seize the whole operation, kill all of the ostriches. Wow.
Hide it all.
Yeah. And fortunately, they've pushed back the hearing again because of social media. If they didn't have that, it would have ended already months ago. And so that's why I try to tell folks, A, shake the hand that feeds you, but then also share this information out because... Farmers and ranchers need literally all hands on deck with this.
That is super concerning because first of all, eggs are like a staple in a lot of countries. So if the vaccines are getting inside of the eggs and people are consuming them, that's really concerning, right?
Oh, yeah.
I mean, that is terrifying. I mean, there's people saying it gets in the meat when you vaccine a cow and then you eat the steak. I don't know if that's true or not.
It is. And then also grocery store meat, you have no idea where that's from. You have no idea how many different types of cows are in that, where the environments they came from. And so you can still buy American beef that's been imported. And so consumers have no idea about that.
They're probably importing it. If from a business point of view, it would probably save them a ton of money, right?
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Chapter 7: What role does regenerative agriculture play in food and community health?
I mean, there's a lot of reasons for that, but money. I mean, money is always going to be the root of it. I feel like, wow, that's crazy. So even if it says made in America on the beef packaging,
Yeah, if it's a product of USA, it can technically be from somewhere else that they imported. It's crazy. And so you're not... You think you might be supporting the farmers and ranchers, but you're not. And so that's why... There's so many resources out there too.
That's why I, going back to saying we've just outsourced responsibility, you could literally just Google farms and ranches near me, or I share resources constantly to where there's 10, 20 websites now with farm maps to find farmers and ranchers, homesteads, raw milk. I mean, there's regenerativefarmersofamerica.com, fromthefarm.org, beefmaps.com, ewild.com.
For raw milk, you can go to getrawmilk.com. And then I think it's realmilk.com. I think Seed Oil Scout is adding a section too. Yeah. And Seed Oil Scout too is great for that. And so there's a lot of resources. It's just, you got to do some type of work. And especially, I say this a lot too, if you're a parent or want to be a parent, Because I hear this all the time too.
Like I would do anything for my parents or for my kids, even die for them. But why aren't you living for them? Because I think about my family. I mean, my mom's passed away and I want to have a ranch and raise a family. And it sucks to think about that my mom's not going to be there to see her grandkids because she wanted that a lot. And I see just where we're at as a society now too.
I went to the March Madness basketball games last year or last month. And it felt like such a bread and circus because most people could not even walk up the stairs. Like it was so jarring how unhealthy majority of the people were there, not being able to even walk up the stairs. And I'm just thinking you can still technically be alive when you're 70, but if you can't even walk,
You're not even going to be able to play with your grandchildren.
Healthspan versus lifespan. That debate, right? Yes. Like, why would you want to live to 80 if you're not healthy?
Yeah. I mean, that kind of goes back. You kind of hear sometimes whenever there's people like in their 90s, they just want to die and just. Yeah. Yeah.
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