You Are What Your Food Eats: The Importance of Food and Soil Quality
Have you ever considered what your favorite meats eat? If you’re still buying mass-produced chicken, beef, and other meats from your nearest grocery store, chances are high that those meats are eating feed loaded with fillers such as corn and soy that are passed on to you when you consume them. If you’re looking for healthier, more nutrient-dense corn and soy free chicken and other meats, here’s why you should care about the quality of food and soil your own food consumes.
What Your Food Eats
Today, many factory farms feed their animals feed filled with soybeans, corn, animal proteins, and other byproducts to make them grow faster. Factory farms and corn and soy feed are far from a farm animal’s natural habitat and diet in the wild, let alone the idyllic version of farms we all imagine.
However, many smaller farms are beginning to raise pastured chicken, cattle, hogs, and lamb in humane environments containing healthy green grass, bugs, and soil they’d naturally eat. This is supplemented with organic, non-GMO feed that contains healthy and nutritious ingredients like barley, peas, and fishmeal.
Why Quality Soil Matters
Today, many mass-raised animals live in buildings with poor-quality soil due to current industrial farming practices, such as growing the same crop in the same field every year and using synthetic fertilizers. These practices lead to degraded soil stripped of natural nutrients vital to a farm animal’s health.
Many farms are changing this using regenerative farming techniques such as growing crops rooted in soil, crop covering, and low-to-no tilling. These practices result in nutrient-dense soil that’s biodiverse and contains a clean water supply. For pasture raised chicken, cattle, pigs, and other farm animals, the quality of the soil creates the healthy, nutritious grass, bugs, and soil they consume. Ultimately, this leads to healthier, more nutritious meat for you because you are what your food eats.
How to Find Healthy, Quality Meats
If you live in an agricultural area, chances are high that a farm near you sells freshly farmed chickens, eggs, beef, pork, or lamb. Some farms might even offer tours, which can be a fun way for you and your family to see how the animals live before purchasing meat.
Even if you live in a city far from an idyllic family farm with a red barn and regeneratively farmed pastures, there’s still a way for you to access high-quality, healthy, nutrient-dense meats. Many farms sell their nutrient-dense meats online and ship them in a container filled with dry ice so the meat stays cold during transit and arrives at your doorstep neatly sealed and fresh.
About Primal Pastures
From cooking hot dogs around a campfire to eating traditional family recipes around the kitchen table, life is filled with wholesomely good moments. You can make the most of these incredible everyday moments by incorporating meats raised on food that’s just as good. Primal Pastures’ priority is to raise all their chicken, hogs, cattle, and other grass-fed animals on pastures maintained with regenerative farming techniques while feeding them only the highest-quality food free from corn, soy, and artificial hormones. Since starting with 50 chickens in their backyard, Primal Pastures has made it their mission to raise the bar with their farms and provide only the cleanest, nutrient-dense, humanely raised meats possible so people can enjoy more of life’s wholesome moments with clean, grass-fed proteins that are just as good.
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