Grass farming basically says that the diet of all farm animals should stem from grass. Cows eat grass; chickens eat grass and peck through the cow manure, which came from grass, etc.
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You are what you eat. How often did you hear your mother say that? Or a teacher at school? A well-meaning caregiver? We are what we eat, and we are what we eat eats. A sentiment that was quickly lost in the era of grocery stores and convenience food, many of us — and our children and our parents — have lost touch with the most basic law of consumption: We are only as healthy as the food chain of custody.
I had the pleasure of meeting Joel Salatin at an event in Asheville, North Carolina, in the spring of 2014. Salatin co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia, and was featured in The New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma (2006) by Michael Pollan, and the award-winning documentary Food Inc. (2008). Salatin is also a noted author on agriculture topics.
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