Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-5 | Eating 100_ Local_ A Yearlong Experiment

21 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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This is a YouTube video (Gut Health 101-5 | Eating 100% Local: A Yearlong Experiment) by Aaron Hartman, MD, discussing Barbara Kingsolver's book Animal Vegetable Miracle. The speaker summarizes the book as a memoir of a year in which Kingsolver's family attempted to eat 100% locally sourced food, permitting each family member one non-local item (examples: coffee). The family otherwise grew or bartered food for the year; the memoir documents the process and observations about animals and poultry-raising practices in the U.S.

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The book was Animal Vegetable Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. And it was kind of a memoir of a year that her family spent eating 100% local. So each family member had one food they could get, not local. So I think one of them chose, like, coffee, so they couldn't get that local, but they didn't want to not have coffee for a year. Each family member got, like, one, you know, item like that, but then otherwise, they either grew or bartered all of their food for a year. And she just documented the process and also just talked about some of the things that surprised them about animals and, you know, way that we raise chickens in, at least in the United States.