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This Week you’ll meet Nicolette Hahn Niman, from BN Ranch and author of Defending Beef and Righteous Pork Chop, who talks about the sustainability of “cattle farming”: Rob starts the podcast by answering a listeners question about how you can put on muscle mass when you are training for endurance.  Then, he and Nicolette get into the myths around cattle farming and why it has gotten such a bad name.  She shows the benefits of raising cattle in the proper manner as well as discusses the differences between factory and sustainable farming.

Originally from Michigan Nicolette was drawn to law to help fight for environmental causes.  She was a former Lawyer for National Wildlife Association and now a senior attorney for the Environment Organizational Waterkeeper Alliance.  Being a vegetarian, she began researching the meat industry she thinking it would reinforce her belief that the meat industry is unsustainable.  What she found was that there were two sides of the industry, one that was inhumane and unsustainable towards the environment and another side that took great care of the animals, had a positive environmental impact, and had a healthier nutrition profile within their products.  She ended up falling in love and marrying a cattle rancher and became involved in the daily operations at Niman Ranch.  Still a vegetarian, she fights to debunk the myths about cattle farming while fighting for environmental sustainability.

What you will hear in this episode
00:00 Open Sky Fitness Introduction
01:13 Introduction to Nicolette Hahn from Niman Ranch
02:08 Can you put on muscle mass with endurance training?
04:50 Why comparing your body to someone else’s may be unrealistic.
6:50 Rob’s recommendations for building muscle mass as an ectomorph.
9:33 Macronutrient combination
12:08 Nicolette Hahn and her path to cattle ranching.
18:14 The joining of a vegetarian and cattle farming
23:45 The pleasure of food
24:45 The misconceptions of the cattle grazing industry with Global Warming
31:56 How grazing animals can actually improve the existing ecosystems
33:14 Why there is plenty of land for all the grazing animals that what we consume.
36:00 The need for land to rest and the problems with the plow
40:40 Chemicals have replaced crop rotation in modern day farming
43:51 Factory Farming causing pollution
48:06 Nicolette’s choice to be vegetarian
51:25 The true water footprint of cattle.
1:00:35 Looking at entire systems versus isolations, cattle have positive role in the environment
1:01:44 Transitioning from factory farming to sustainable farming.
1:04:40 The consumer role towards sustainable cattle farming
1:07:00 BN Ranch and ordering grass fed, sustainable meats
1:08:30 Closing Remarks by Rob
1:10:10 Open Sky Fitness Closing

LINKS AND RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

If you want to learn more about BN Farms go to
EatLikeItMatters.com

To learn more about Nicolette and how to order her books to to
NicoletteHahnNiman.com

Find Nicolette on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/defendingbeef/
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Thanks for listening/reading Episode 86: Sustainable "Cattle Farming".  We hope you have gained more knowledge on how to be a healthier you!