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Pioneering Today

EP: 416 Truth About Meat Labels & Regenerative Farming with White Oak Pastures

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9931 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

With meat labeling laws being changed right before our eyes, it's getting harder and harder to trust where our meat is coming from, and how it was raised and processed. Will Harris and his daughter Jenni from White Oak Pastures share the steps consumers can take to regain control over the food industry. For more information and any links mentioned in this episode, visit melissaknorris.com/416.

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0:00.0

If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,

0:06.4

I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make

0:16.2

sure that you are registered and signed up for our herbal summer series. This is completely free, though you definitely could charge for it because it is

0:28.2

packed with information. Once you sign up starting in August, every week you are going to get an email from me going over my top 10 favorite herbs.

0:40.0

Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,

0:47.8

but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.

0:56.9

We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.

1:02.1

So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by

1:06.2

that point in your medicine cabinet my favorite top 10 herbs to always have at the ready. Go to Melissa K Norris.com forward slash

1:18.2

summer herb and make sure that you get registered. Summer school is in session and it has never been better. Hey pioneers. Welcome to episode number 416. Today's episode we are going to be

1:38.1

diving into what does it actually mean when you buy meat at the store and it has the label in the USA on it?

1:49.0

What does that actually technically mean? Many of you already know this, but a lot of you are going to be very surprised at what the

1:56.8

loopholes are and where that meat can actually be raised and shipped in from and still legally have made in the USA on it.

2:06.3

We're also going to be diving into talking about regenerative agriculture like what

2:11.5

does that actually mean especially in relation to of

2:13.2

agriculture, like what does that actually mean, especially in relation to beef production and cattle.

2:17.2

I'm really excited for today's guest who is Will Harris from White Oak Pastures.

2:24.4

Now you may have heard of Will and White Oak Pastures

2:27.6

because Will was on the Joe Rogan podcast

2:30.9

and that was a fabulous episode. That's how I first found out about White Oak Pastures. But what is really amazing about their story is how they have made a complete 180 and you're going to hear about that in today's episode

2:47.0

as well as a lot of the reasons that our modern agriculture is the way it is right now, but things that you and I can do in order to make a difference within our own home and with what we are doing because that's really what we can control and if everybody does that

3:07.5

then that all adds up together to make bigger change but it truly starts with us which as homesteaders and if you're

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