Joel Salatin | From 1,000+ Foods to Just 30_ The Shocking Decline in Our Diet Variety

The Aborigines of Australia in a year would eat more than a thousand different kinds of foods. Americans eat about 30. Back in the day, they didn't have Walmart. They had all these different seasoned fruits and vegetables and things throughout the season that they could eat. They would eat more than a thousand different kinds of foods. Americans eat about 30. That's it. One of the quickest ways to get more variety in your diet is to eat an animal that has consumed a lot of variety in its diet. If a cow's just eating corn silage, that's a very undiversified diet. But if the cow is eating plantain and chicory and clover and different grasses and barnyard grass and Johnson grass and white clover and red clover and all sorts of different things, that enzyme and nutrient complexity is going to show up in all that structure.