Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Joel Salatin | If Your Food Doesn’t Rot, It Won't Digest!

21 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Joel Salatin argues that food must be decomposable to be digestible, claiming modern food processing/antimicrobial practices produce unnaturally sterile, non-decomposable foods. He contrasts processed "squeezable Velveeta" (which he says would not rot) with "real cheese" (which becomes fuzzy and decomposes), using vivid anecdotes to emphasize that food should be alive/rotting rather than sterile.

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If food won't decompose, it won't digest. But if you put real cheese on your table, in two days, it'll get fuzzy. Food should not be sterile. If food won't decompose, it won't digest. And if you go into your kitchen and you take squeezable Velveeta cheese and you squeeze it on the table, it'll just sit there for a year. But if you put real cheese on your table, in two days it'll get fuzzy and in a week it'll sprout legs and walk off your table. That is a decomposable material. And what we've done to our food system, we're so antimicrobial and we're paranoid of living things that we have bathed everything in sterility so that it comes to us in a non composable thing.