Fixing the Problem with Industrial Farming and Food Consolidation

Taken from JRE #2062 w/Will & Jenni Harris:
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[@benjamincash4764]

Having farmers on to discuss topics as important as this is one of the many reasons JRE is the best

[@DannySullivanMusic]

couldn't agree more. precisely right!

[@hapwn]

Well, you know what they say, “you may need a doctor once a year, a banker once a month, but a farmer you need three times a day.”

[@Treegrower]

Couldnt have said it better myself

[@AdamGee8]

Absolutely! Cheers.

[@biggregg5]

Don't eat animals and animal products. That's the solution.

[@TamaHawkLive]

Joe is legitimately the only interviewer on the planet that will have on a pair of regenerative farmers that no one has ever herd of to talk about the farming industry and then the next day have a conversation with The Rock.

[@daedaebfishin]

Mad respect for the real everyday farmers.

[@brvtvs196]

I really liked this guy's first appearance on the jre! Can't wait to listen to this one in full

[@skylerknox9929]

Where can i listen to full episodes if I may ask.

[@Jiggy609]

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[@Dj3nlightened]

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[@black_hand78]

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[@MikeyHCyC]

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[@williamthomas5215]

I absolutely loved the last podcast with Will, as a farmer, and I’m so glad he’s back

[@HassanLoukili-ke1tq]

OHH PEOPLE ACCEPT ISLAM AND FEAR THE HELL FIRE

[@makinnewcounts6676]

Farmers should stick to farming, leave the writing to the writers. You don't see me harvesting your radishes and if you did you'd cringe at my amateurism.

[@redomega24]

Joe having Will back is why he's so important

[@badlaamaurukehu]

​@@makinnewcounts6676Urban idiots should learn how farms work before they vote on which slaughterhouse is more "urban" friendly before they become food themselves...

[@manga3040]

​@@makinnewcounts6676What writing of his are you so put off by?

[@henryfinlay]

I think that going after Factory Farming would be a political movement that would see a lot of bipartisan support in America. Not just vegans but most meat eaters would agree that animals raised in factories is sad and disgusting. Ending factory farming would definitely raise fast food and grocery store costs, but I think it'd be worth it to raise the standards for lives of animals before they become food

[@odysseusoodysseuso2784]

Problem is that masses who live pay check to pay check have other priorities

[@henryfinlay]

@@odysseusoodysseuso2784 yeah that's sadly true

[@Dmac6969]

The food doesn't get moldy because of the surface area it has, related to how thin it is. It's so that the patties can be cooked thoroughly very quickly. Well one of the other characteristics that it displays is that it loses moisture very quickly, compared to patties that we would make at home. Food doesn't rot or mold if it drys. If you sliced potatoes in a similar size to mcdonalds fries. Bought similar buns, made beef patties of similar thickness and diameter, similar weight. And left it on your counter. You would get the same results

[@dannyeverette4551]

Videos like this are my favorite honestly

[@victoriaman117]

When a corporation is making record profits, and farmers are in record debt....something is broken

[@daedaebfishin]

Here for the “Jamie pull up that video” grizzly bear and DMT jokes

[@makinnewcounts6676]

Then watch a cartoon. Respect DMT respect Joe and God damnit respect grizzlies this man Rogan has literally saved our world

[@badlaamaurukehu]

​@@makinnewcounts6676Jamie sucks at his search engine lacky job.

[@sas4l176]

Respect the DMT

[@dianefitzgerald1693]

I kept a bowl of doritoes for 15 years, they lost a bit of colour over time but still looked eadible.

[@jopo7996]

Respect to all the farmers. It's hard intensive work. If some of today's younger generation tried it, they might spend less time navel gazing and worrying about their pronouns.

[@aakashk530]

Respect to them for sure. But I’m a millennial can you point me to where I can buy some land and become a farmer? Oh I need generational land and wealth to get started? Exactly. Don’t need to shit on a group to praise another

[@jopo7996]

@@aakashk530 just like a millennial to think you should own the farm before you work on it. Sighhhh.

[@aakashk530]

@@jopo7996 I thought the point was to not work on or own or support industrial farms, that’s all that’s around me bubba. If I want to start my own the industry is priced out unless your daddy and his daddy had some land. Boomers seem to be obsessed with pronouns just as much as the blue haired libs not sure why that lives rent free in your head

[@TYGod2011]

@@aakashk530 have you talked to any family farmers? What did they suggest? Get ready for an education.

[@kentneumann5209]

"navel gazing" 😆

[@legacyfarmmarket]

Thanks for supporting your small local farmer

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, David The Good, Billy Bond & Joel Salatin. If you don’t know em you better learn em fast!!!!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

There is a choice guys! Buy from your local farmers....take food responsibility and don't patronize companies that don't raise food that doesn't align with your values!

[@masonmansitomargiela1399]

I know we really appreciate our military but our farmers are SUPER IMPORTANT FOR LIFE so everytime you meet or see a farmer please thank them for their service

[@zachp419]

This needs to happen. This needs to trend

[@peterzz4266]

Can you imagine, being born and raised... just to pull up things off the web LOL

[@shockingdocumentaries4255]

People didn’t ask for cheaper food. These monopolies kill a lot of jobs as they get bigger in this land of mergers and acquisitions. The jobs that are left are unskilled labor that doesn’t pay enough. Even if you don’t lose your job, your pay doesn’t increase with the cost of living. You have to work more hours for less money if your downsized. Those who get to keep their jobs in mergers have to do the job of at least 2 people. In order to make up for the lack of time and funds you’re told to get fast food, pre-made food delivered to your house. Ironically the food isn’t cheaper or faster. We are conditioned to buy these foods and the circumstances make it harder to find healthy affordable food that can be made easily. Especially if you live in an area not deamed worthy to have fresh produce. There’s a reason why the zip code you’re born into dictates every aspect of your life. There’s a difference between choice and coercion. Knowing the difference between the 2 makes the difference between improving the situation, and victim blaming. Showcasing people who have community food growing programs help. Suggesting that people buy tube of meat from Costco, like Joe Rohan suggested at one point, just indicates how out of touch he is with the fact that poor people don’t have $60 membership fees to take out of their budget. Or live off a tube of $60 meat without having health issues like debilitating constipation developing with in a week. Joe Rogan is very smart, but seems to have a blind spot when it comes to the working poor who make up 80% of the North American population.

[@WontSeeReplies]

A good JRE. Weird. No shill. No propaganda.

[@poplifemedia]

I LOVE THIS FARMER!!! Genius!!!!! Thank you for having him back on here as a guest!

[@bornagainbuddhist1969]

Best way to fight industrial farms is to either raise your own or to buy locally from a farmer, and to not eat fast food.

[@Voss_TV920]

I currently work for a company named General Mills as a Machine Technician. As you saw on the picture we own and partnered with a lot of brands. The plant I work at we make Pillsbury biscuits and pie crust, Pizza Hut/Godfathers bread sticks and handtoss pizza bread, Walmart bakery breads(not homemade), and KFC Potpie crust. That's just one plant of General Mills We make a lot of it and package it before it gets put in a warehouse freezer. This job has opened my eyes on how crazy it is. I don't eat these brands anymore due to understanding what we put in the product. We do have audits but they are planned audits. I only wanted to work here due to amazing pay and benefits without a college degree in my area. On the other side. I plan on leaving in the next 2 years due to the corporate politic BS and I'm unhappy at my job due to burnout ever since the pandemic cause we were considered essential. We got screwed over on compensation of our time and General Mills had record breaking profits but we got a pizza party.....

[@bill2953]

Why are the millions of pounds of beef per year or the expansion of industrial farming even alarming? Look at our collective life style and it didn't happen overnight.

[@jefferyminor3025]

And all of these facilities are within like 120 mile radius of each other. And the number one boxed beef company in America is Brazilian owned.

[@AnatolyRavioliGym]

47 Million Chickens dying in a week by 1 Company is WILD.

[@corneliusjames1630]

That waste is like gold.. it gets pumped back into the ground and makes a huge difference.

[@clintonhummel8776]

I grew up in the nineties in the same cornfield I live now. I do believe that the farming industry will not be back in my life. I don’t even like saying farmer they are just planters and pickers these days.

[@Clobercow1]

This conflation of the long lasting cheeseburger is dumb. It's a plot to fool people who don't know anything about anything. Cooked food is preserved food... So yeah, it lasts a long, long time. You can cook a cheese burger until it's dry, like McD, and it will sit on the shelf for years and not rot. Try it. It's called cooking. Notice how the not-cooked fresh and wet pickle went bad...

[@AuditorsUnited]

having government solve a problem hahahahaha 3:00

[@zenopsy0149]

I would have guessed we didn't import beef at all. This is some eye opening shit here.

[@TYGod2011]

Our animals have always eaten what we eat. As a family with butchers there was no way our animals would eat processed food.

[@WildPrimal23]

I had a great time working with Will and Jenni Harris. I filmed for 3 days at White Oak Pastures. It’s for a short documentary on sustainable animal agriculture that I will be posting on my channel. (If I don’t end up submitting it to film festivals first) Stay tuned.

[@MichaelHeathman]

Where's the full podcast please

[@j.s.boehme8991]

Please interview Gabe Brown, the amazing regen farmer that Will referenced in this interview.

[@Tigerjuhhh]

this is important. Farmers feed people.

[@deathmetalsl]

I'm honestly more excited about this episode than The Rock's episode 😄😄

[@ElonMuskFanNetwork]

One of my kids had a old McDonald’s cheeseburger bun under her bed and it was months old not one spot of mold on it

[@leighh.2181]

I don’t even agree that’s it’s cheaper to go through a drive thru. If you take that exact amount to the store you will be able to cook a healthier meal.

[@4bidden1]

We will find out when oil reserves start to dry out.

[@boldlygo3469]

I wish I knew the title of this man's book. I'd get it. But I don't even know his full name or the name of a website, or anything at all. Too bad that information wasn't shared because we need to find alternatives to the giant manufacturers who sell hormones, antibiotics, and preservatives with a little "food" mixed in.

[@jontolar6838]

Will Harris. He’s been on the podcast before and his name is clearly in the video description.

[@boldlygo3469]

@@jontolar6838 So the book title is "Will Harris" or "Fixing the Problem with Industrial Farming and Food Consolidation?" Granted ... I did miss the man's name. So I Googled "Will Harris" and got information on a football player and a baseball player and Kamala Harris. I finally did find a book called "A Bold Return to Giving A Damn." I'm going to assume that that is the title I'm searching for.

[@wesleesmith2778]

I need more of this

[@jvm30]

I hear alot of complaining but I don't hear any gratitude for the ability of the average person to be able to go to the store and buy nutrient dense meat...

[@jamesblinzler7421]

I’ve worked at a chicken processing plant we ran 120-175 k chickens daily. George’s chicken plant.

[@williamdaniels9728]

Glad I got a local butcher nearby..

[@hhhugz5826]

I run a business in Australia with my partner called Otway Beef, we only sell direct to the consumer and all of our cattle are 100% Organic, Grass-fed & finished, GMO, & Jab Free. its some of the cleanest protein I have come across and I do a fair bit of research on the topic. I wont say its the most marbled beef I've had but the flavour and quality is unmatched to anything I've had in any high end restaurants and im a foodie at heart so when we eat out we go for top end restaurants. being a breeder and producer of grass-fed i can honestly say our meat is superior to the competition. i got into this because i grew up in the city and i had never had meat like this before and now being 5 years into the industry i still havent had beef like what we produce on our farm. We are not the only people supplying meat like this in the world so if you do come across it, purchased directly from the farmer or a close re-seller it is defiantly worth the premium you might think is on the product. im based in South West Victoria, Australia and we have some of the highest / most consistent rainfall in the country so for grass fed beef our climate is perfect. if your reading this from Victoria give us a go ! Otwaybeef.com.au

[@chrisprysok7634]

Localize it. J.m. Fortier and joe Saladin answered this long time ago.

[@pin65371]

Rogan needs get get Will back and bring Thomas Massie on with him. Massie has been bringing up some of these issues for a while now. Massie would be a great guest either way.

[@codyj7532]

Farmer here, just want people to know that “farming” is a very broad term. I like what he has to say but it doesn’t apply everywhere

[@franciscoflores1]

i love how cosmic world is manifesting solutions to the problems created by society and it’s been spread through every individual in the world. I remember when I found out the real nature of food and what’s being down and now In seeing this years layers on joe rogan. The momentum is building up

[@rootz420]

People don't realize this is the most important thing.

[@johnathonhuson8734]

I started feeding my dogs raw a decade ago. Was the dogs fault, she refused to eat the kibble and I thought maybe it was because the dog food was like eating the same shity protein shake every day. My dogs also fast when I fast, even the intermittent schedule. We wonder about our health but don’t take a minute to look at what nature does. It’s not normal to have access to 3 square meals a day or drive through windows capable of giving you a days worth of calories whilst you do no physical work to obtain those calories. Real food spoils, and requires a daily physical effort to obtain and a balance is struck when food is physically worked for, and waistlines are maintained when you aren’t eating outside your bodies ability to digest and burn the calories

[@MrJim5280]

Start enforcing antitrust laws against big beef!

[@davestennes305]

WEF version of industrial farming: building better insect picker-uppers.

[@choggs]

Don’t even get me started on the Fertilizer Industry.

[@choggs]

That’s me Joe

[@DadinWA]

great clip! we need to stop buying industrial farmed meats. Factory farmed chicken is literally owned by a few companies. we need to stop eating so much fast food as well.

[@katierose8260]

So grateful for joe Rogan. Best topics and concerns talked about from firsthand accounts.

[@justlucky964]

Another amazing podcast everyone should listen to

[@nessieserneels5647]

What is the book called? I would like to buy and read it!

[@CronyxRavage]

"A Bold Return to Giving a Damn" by Will Harris

[@Monotheist137]

For me as not a native english speaker accent like her sounds best.

[@heresthedeal1727]

Cheap? Is this guy gone through Wendy’s drive-through in the last two years ain’t nothing cheap about it.

[@IWorkDoodles]

Thank You

[@kalrandom7387]

I love my local butcher.

[@GetzReel]

Ok. But who can afford $44.00 a POUND (16 ounces) on grass fed ribeyes. I would love to eat grass fed all the time, but those prices are not practical for every day American I guess. Australian meat it is, damn

[@Sageofthe16]

you have a choice. make your own food. a guy did this and it costed $20k to make a ham sandwitch. remember when it was a struggle to eat?

[@drewpally]

I feel like total azz after some of this to go food

[@TimothyLackie]

They were holding WAY Back on Fruits and Vegetables in the Grocery Store. Replaced all with Animals and Dairy(BA'AL Worship) 85% of ALL KNOWN DISEASE. We ALL have been played.⚡⚡⚡

[@mattgraham1983]

😂 yeah the illustration of choice.. im my country we pay export prices for food even food produced here. The truly insain thing you are able to the exact product in USA or England for cheaper than off the shelf in country of origin (yes taking into account exchange rates)

[@parthenonx2697]

The reality is that if everyone jumped ship and went local and meatless there wouldn't be enough food for everyone. The plan must be long term and multi staged and likely, multi generational.

[@Ages_of_domination]

I don't know what you're talking about Joe, that's chocolate milk

[@rickjay2011]

I gave up meat on the 4th of this month, and my energy levels have improved, and I've lost about 6 lbs. I'm all done with American meat.

[@GLo1991]

Grass fed organic free range meat, it’s expensive but it exists. Good health to you

[@Matt-yy8tl]

The best way to fix the problem with "industrial" farming is to quit pretending there's a damn problem with it. It's the same practices, and the same people, but scaled up. Poor husbandry and bad land stewardship also scale up and they always result in losses. Even if profit was the only motivator, they'd still be far more conscious of their actions than the anti-factory-farm activists would have us think. And what the hell is this shit where he's trying to separate regenerative farming from industrial farming? They're not mutually exclusive. Bill Gates owns less than 1% of US farmland. Quit letting grifters confuse you with the wrong stats. He's far from a threat.

[@BaronObeeefdip]

Please talk about right to repair next! Pretty please!

[@-Brandon.]

This is mad powerful i can dig it lets go

[@PrivatelyHanging]

George Carlin said "Youve got 27 flavors of ice cream to choose from but only 2 political parties." The illusion of choice is real

[@KAT-dg6el]

@@brackstonhildebrand5074 Of course it’s a Carlin quote. That’s why it reads…… Carlin said…..

[@thunderstruck1078]

Carlin was an anti-White scumbag.

[@rubynibs]

Thd US has the party that supports the Constitution - the party of freedom on the Right - and the party trying to tear it apart - the authoritarian control freaks on the Left. What good would more parties do? Here in Sweden, we saw the consequences of many political parties, and put them all in one of two coalitions. We still don't have a right-wing, but educated Swedes are working toward it.

[@ScreamingindropD]

​@@brackstonhildebrand5074yeah, that's what the comment starts with.

[@brackstonhildebrand5074]

@puppymeat puppy meat . I think I scrolled halfway past this, sorry I ruined your day

[@SeaOrcRonnie]

These folks have a 8-10 part series, something like that, on a small KZbin channel called living web farms. They basically take you through their whole operation down in GA and talk about how they run their farm, their business, a lot about land in general, it’s incredibly informative and interesting.

[@OrangeJuicePapi]

thank you for this.

[@CaptainKirk007]

Thank you

[@missknight9]

Thank you for sharing, i will definitely check out their channel!

[@clayevins6795]

Can I order beef from them in Tenn?

[@jeremyburleson6329]

I'm a professional pot grower. But I grow everything. But once you understand organic farming it's all pretty easy tbh

[@brenda02756]

10 corporations own America food. 6 corporations own the media in America. They give the illusion that they’re doing the right thing. I’ve know this since the 80s come on America what happened to our society?

[@ngf5077]

Buy from a local farmer if you want to pay double. I’m going to continue to enjoy cheap beef

[@hank4504]

@@ngf5077slave

[@marcospatrick7431]

Social media?

[@belgeselce]

Tech capacity is there to inform and include public in decisions. Especially after blockchain. That is why crisis arose. To make everyone busier. Governments also can’t predict a stable future. Politicians should exists to find the facts and offer solutions all transparently can be viewed by people.

[@Jack-jp6ki]

​@@ngf5077and enjoy the cancer that comes with it too.😂😂🤦🤦

[@billdillon3886]

To live near this family in Georgia is an honor. Will is the antithesis of Bill Gates. Two opposite bottom lines. One health, the other wealth.

[@updownkid]

What part of Georgia? I just moved here. Am curious, thanks.

[@updownkid]

Never mind. I just did my own research. I am just 60 miles away. 🤗

[@lifeofreilly9943]

So well said

[@lukesmith3283]

That’s awesome

[@kominers260]

Holy shit why is there so many fake comments in here

[@kanekanekaneable]

Right

[@Kevin-ls2gt]

Amazon amk69x moment of all time

[@josephgarceau6753]

Amazon's AMK69X whatever the hell that is. At least they're not recommending financial advisors for crypto investments lol

[@samuelaritan3766]

What she’s describing specifically within the meat industry is also happening in the grocery industry. Kroger owns a baffling amount. For a time, if you had a Safeway, Albertsons, or Fred Meyer in your town…you were buying from the same people if you were shopping at any of them. There is allegedly an anti-trust lawsuit going on, but the likelihood of it amounting to anything meaningful is slim to none. It will just be window dressing. Look up the umbrella of companies Kroger owns and then the subsidiary brands within them. “The Illusion of choice” indeed. Good luck trying to boycott some of these companies if they ever do you wrong…they have spiderwebbed across the entire nation and even the world.

[@newfreenayshaun6651]

Kroger is one of the absolute worst corporations out there. They're one of the first stepping in line to sign contracts with big Pharma and the FDA to make sure you have carcinogens in what they want to call food. They abuse their employees like no other Corporation, worse than Amazon. I am so glad I don't work for that shitty slave driver anymore.

[@brandonrox221]

Most chicken is processed in same spot.

[@derrickvause7515]

Also look at Smithfield Foods (and it’s subsidiaries)… then look at who bought Smithfield Foods in 2013.

[@whisper8742]

In 1945 the entire world lost...

[@sadbravesfan]

Not just groceries or farming. Also the same with the movie industry, media companies, health/beauty industry, and probably more I can't think of. But that's what you get with capitalism.

[@MTX-p3m]

They have done this to EVERY industry in America. This is the real reason why everything is so expensive and why we all feel as if we can barely keep up. These conglomerations work together to raise prices in order to take advantage of consumers and make more money than God himself. All while our government officials take their money to help them make this possible. A change is needed.

[@reyray7184]

And one tiny group of people are responsible for it all.

[@melvinrexwinkle1510]

The only person responsible for your food is you, it's really simple all you need to do is buy you some land and grow your own food! Not complicated how to make a change! The complicated part is not starving before you learn how to grow something to eat! Come to think of it, you could graze in the right of ways of rural roads, there is plenty of green plants there to eat, there's rats, snakes, rabbits, etc. But you'd probably in thirty days, decide to just go to a grocery store and buy your food!

[@MTX-p3m]

@@melvinrexwinkle1510 wish I had the time but unfortunately I have to work for money although I'd love to live off the land

[@melvinrexwinkle1510]

BTW, God doesn't need, and I don't believe, ever had any money!

[@melvinrexwinkle1510]

@@reyray7184 no, everyone who eats is involved, it is a free country, we all have the right to eat what we choose, or to not eat!

[@CashisKingtrucking]

When you start thinking of modern America as a corporation instead of a country then it all makes sense. Everything's for sale everything's about making money. We could change that maybe we got a chance.

[@patrickpatton7123]

Yes, Greed and Control are destroying us. Many of our founding fathers were the wealthy and prominent ppl of their time. Many gave their lives for the ppl......true heros. Could you imagine a politician or ceo doing this today lol..

[@SoloAdvocate]

Yes we have moved past a Capitalistic system into one with heavy handed regulations under the guise of "protecting the citizens", an Oligarchic system with Socialist programs as a stop gap.

[@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

The USA and America are 2 completely different things, one is a corporation the other was a country by the people and for the people. The latter died in 1876.

[@Sid00077]

Capitalism baby

[@Patamole]

The fact it’s harder to imagine a world with out capitalism than it is to imagine a post apocalyptic survival scenario is alarming

[@xxrkg8437]

My guy just shave it off

[@Billy_Tha_Kidd]

Thankyou JRE for continuing to bring on great 'guests' and keeping topical conversations alive! Industrial farming ep is GOLD 👍👊

[@ccs9630]

It gets seriously so depressing realizing we are being screwed over in every possible way. Like every time you turn around you’re being crapped on in every aspect of life.

[@c0ck_l2oach75]

It's the Truman show with an illusion of choice.

[@stensballe3683]

depressed (deep-rest) just dont give up ❤️

[@kcwkembm]

At least now we do realize it. We are not asleep anymore. We cant even try to fix it if we dont realize it.

[@ThatWhichErodes]

@@kcwkembm agreed. these days life seems so much "worse than it was" but i think it was always bad, people were just more ignorant. these days we can see the lie, which is why it seems so awful

[@kevineiford2153]

Just shop at a farmers market. This is largely on us the public. The companies are literally just giving us what we want, and what we want- cheap meat at large scales- is destroying both the planet and ourselves

[@CronyxRavage]

The name of the book is called "A Bold Return to Giving a Damn" by Will Harris

[@ServoDestroyer]

"You will eat ze bugs."- Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates too.

[@ShroomFactory]

People already eat shrimp

[@jasonanderson9946]

Worth a mention is what else is contained in that pig waste. Genetically modified feed coupled with hormones and antibiotics.

[@wendyg8536]

...and now gene therapins

[@ajoshmiller]

Don't forget about chemical castration - worth a call out on it's own.

[@broughy23]

Young Jamie getting put to work 😂😂

[@MS-ho9wq]

"That's what he does, he likes it". Joe still making Jamie his bitch 😂

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

This is why we grow/raise our own food. Going on year 3 in February. Get the kids involved, find ways to put back more than you take and always remember “You may not sit in the shade of this Lemon tree but your Grandkids will.”

[@collinjensen5772]

Let me just rake my leaves to make room for a cow in my backyard

[@MrBallenHiddenTruths]

And always remember " only you can prevent Forest fire's" Smokey "swag rizzlelicous" the bear

[@tann_man]

You raise and slaughter your own cattle?

[@StubbsMillingCo.]

@@tann_man no yet. Not yet. Pork, chicken and produce.

[@MrBallenHiddenTruths]

@@tann_man yeah people do that my grandparents from Italy used to

[@uchibenkei]

antitrust lawsuits. there's no reason for so few corporations to control so much of the food supply.

[@camc8923]

The answer is buy local from local farmers and for Gods sake stop haggling the prices down. Yes everyone wants a deal, but as one of these homestead farmers, I am hanging up my operations cause costs have gotten too high and people asking for 30-50% off the price I offer, I just can't afford it anymore. So now I just raise it for myself and when old customers show up My prices are much higher cause its my own food they are buying and it now sells at a premium

[@sas4l176]

I understand I but from a local butcher and prices have jumped so much and didn't understand but I get it

[@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

Your prices are higher because it's your food people buy? Sounds like you're greedy and taking advantage. Not saying that you are ;but it sounds like it the way you wrote your comment.

[@joeb.6831]

@@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr How do you get greedy and taking advantage from what they described. People have every right to charge what the market allows, that is the nature of supply and demand.

[@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

Quote: My prices are much higher cause its my own food they are buying and it now sells at a premium@@joeb.6831

[@camc8923]

@@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr My operating costs have gone up so maybe that is the communication disconnect, I raise Meat goats. When I started a 75# bag of grain was $18 now it is $32, a Bail of Hay was $8 now it is $18-$24 depending on the time of year. I use to sell my animals for about $150-$200 per head now I can only get $200-$250. My costs to raise livestock is well past a profitability point unless I scale up significantly which is not an option. The part about selling for a higher price at this point is more to do with that is what I am growing for myself, so if you are going to buy what I grew for my self I am going to charge end rates + that you would see at a market instead of wholesale because I am going to have to pay that same rate so it needs to be more or its just a flat trade and I'd rather eat my own product than one I did not have control over because what I produce has always tasted better than what I have been able to buy. Hope that is more clear.

[@rikg4086]

Keep bringing these people on Joe you kick ass, another few amazing farmers i can reccomend would be Jean Martin Fortier from Quebec, he is an amazing educator and has done a few different local farm focused projects over the past 20+ years. And you should get Joel Salatin on again, especially during all the shit happening to farmers these days with state departments of agriculture cracking down on small scale operations.

[@jopo7996]

This information is going to raise some eyebrows. I mean, except Jenny's.

[@Diaz4prez]

I personally watched the family farms get wiped out one by one back in the 80s and ours was one of them. The days of the working family farms are gone and what's left is a corporate run food system.

[@colbykinney5633]

Gabe Brown said " you might out yield me but I'll out profit you every time."

[@King-O-Hell]

I'm really glad Will came back on. His first episode was a great one, very interesting. Looking forward to the whole show 👍

[@chrisp.lettuce8900]

I've noticed in Australia that our two main grocery brands (Woolworths and coles) have been bringing out more products under their own brand names for substantially less than other brands products, while hiking the prices on other brands. I never buy them because it seems obvious that it will just give more power to the duopoly but most people probably just buy whatever is cheapest, very concerning for the future.

[@Kay13Jay]

I was wondering why prices on certain products were jumping for no real reason. I've noticed also that they have little care to how healthy their products are for example Coles juice. Golden Circle went from around $3 to around $5 while Coles juice is under $3. I bought a couple chickens recently and I've begun growing my own vegetables. The neighbours love it because I have more food than I can eat now so I just share it around.

[@jopo7996]

She asked Jamie for so many pull ups, he now has bigger lats.

[@THEREVOLUTION-0.1]

McDonald’s could sell human burger and Americans will still eat them