Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Joel Salatin | You Are What Your Food Eats

17 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Joel Salatin argues that industrial confinement and unnatural feeding of animals (denying fresh air, exercise, sunlight, and green material) produce inauthentic, adulterated food. He links the animals’ diet and living conditions directly to the quality and ‘authenticity’ of the resulting food, asserting that such practices prevent the food from reflecting the animal’s true nature.

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You are what you eat. Eat, we say you are what you eat, but you also are what you eat. Eats. And you become like what you eat. So here we are in these massive confinement animal feeding operations, denying fresh air, denying exercise, denying sunlight, and then denying any green material. Is it any wonder that is going to come to us as a food item? It's not real. It's not an authentic food item. There's nothing about that represents the chickenness of the chicken. It's all a disrespectful adulteration.