Class Tour of Polyface Farms – Part 4 Can this Feed the World?
Joel Salatin, owner of Polyface Farm gives our class a tour of the farm, explaining his methodology and reasoning along the way. He also explains why the methods used on his farm are more sustainable, safe and productive than methods used by modern agribusiness in today’s food production. Polyface Farm’s Website: www.polyfacefarms.com
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spread this far and wide, America and the world need to know this man.
SayCremeFraiche
June 1, 2012 at 10:27 pm
beautiful
littlekagome123
June 1, 2012 at 10:51 pm
Agreed! I want saturated fat – brain food! Love my lard, raw butter and coconut oil!
lilithe69
June 1, 2012 at 11:01 pm
Oh don’t get me wrong. I’m all for pastured, naturally raised meat! However saturated fat has been getting bad press in this country for decades to in large part to government policy regarding ‘health’. Watch “Fat Head”. It’s available on demand at NetFlix.
jlhallet
June 1, 2012 at 11:23 pm
hjallet- and many of the vitamins/minerals are carried by the fats! However, there are additional advantages. Hope you enjoy discovering them for yourself.
Jefferdaughter
June 2, 2012 at 12:14 am
– Your comment hints at a key problem w/experimentation: designing them to eliminate bias or incude/exclude pertinant variables is difficult. However, the evidence of peoples around the world who thrived on native diets of natural foods, and their degeneration after shifing to ‘modern’ foods is significant. The degeneration of the health of those eating the contemporaty ‘standard American diet’ is equally striking.
Jefferdaughter
June 2, 2012 at 12:48 am
sorry about double post on this.
jlhallet
June 2, 2012 at 1:25 am
and 2. His comments on the vitamin/mineral composition of his hens vs. cafo hens is the key reason these birds are more healthful eating.
jlhallet
June 2, 2012 at 2:09 am
Hmm… Joel’s take on the ‘benefits’ of polyunsaturated fats vs saturated or monounsaturated fats is pretty poor science.
Not that micronutrition and heart disease should be his strongest area of research and knowledge by any means … The key take away on nutrition here is that 1. Fat is not directly correlated to heart disease, high blood pressure, or stroke in ANY studies. Studies which have indicated this correlation in the past were cherry picking data to fit their pet hypothesis…
jlhallet
June 2, 2012 at 2:52 am
Hmm… Joel’s take on the ‘benefits’ of polyunsaturated fats vs saturated or monounsaturated fats is pretty poor science.
Not that micronutrition and heartdisease should be his strongest area of research and knowledge by any means … The key take away on nutrition here is that 1. Fat is not directly correlated to heart disease, high blood pressure, or stroke in ANY studies. Studies which have indicated this correlation in the past were cherry picking data to fit their pet hypothesis…
jlhallet
June 2, 2012 at 3:21 am
Curious~ our chickens always looked best when they were laying eggs and worse when they were molting or losing feathers.
5bythebay
June 2, 2012 at 4:16 am
Thanks catch878able – I am a farmer in Australia who would love to be able to visit Joel’s farm – I listened to him for 2 days recently while he was over here, a link to a video on my facebook doesn’t seem to want to load, so just google papanui eggs
scrambledeggs99
June 2, 2012 at 4:17 am