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Think like a chicken
Down to Earth: The Planet to Plate Podcast
English - December 11, 2018 06:55 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 80 ratingsEducation Science Natural Sciences agriculture climatechange farmers farming food ranchers ranching regenerative scientists sustainable Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Reginaldo Haslett Marroquín of the Main Street Project in Northfield, Minnesota, talks about a new model for a healthy and regenerative poultry industry -- and how it can be accomplished with modest investments of land and capital. One of the main challenges of envisioning a healthy food system is how it can work at a large scale, and not just for niche markets. Here you'll hear how it can be done -- and how this model can also provide a model for other types of meat production that's healthy for land, workers, and consumers.
Main Street Project
Website: mainstreetproject.org
T: @main_street
Quivira Coalition
Website: quiviracoalition.org
Show notes:
0:09 Engaging food issues and low wage workers
1:46 Designing for low wage workers means non-discrimination for all
4:37 Livestock is central to regenerating land
5:33 Guatemala and indigenous practices
6:25 Managing energy is the basis of food production
7:09 Regenerative poultry means thinking like a chicken
10:17 Extra meat on industrial broilers costs society
12:22 Day in the life of a chicken
14:51 Down to the the dirt -- the chicken ecosystem
20:31 Poultry-Centered Regenerative Agriculture
20:40 Eliminating unnecessary work
24:58 Returning energy to the system and the ecosystem
26:35 Regenerative agriculture at scale
28:59 Replicating and perpetuating the work around the world
32:34 Regenerative agricultural alliance
34:41 Practicalities of regenerative poultry systems
45:14 Transform the poultry industry, transform other food industries
48:53 The Mainstreet Project