{"id":7151,"date":"2023-09-04T18:54:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2023-09-04T18:54:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-04T11:54:37","slug":"3-tips-for-a-farm-like-lifestyle-wherever-you-live-from-a-farmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=7151","title":{"rendered":"3 Tips For A Farm-Like Lifestyle Wherever You Live, From A Farmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mindbodygreen-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_700,h_400,g_auto,q_85,fl_lossy,f_jpg\/org\/dc1t3wqsalm0s7gfy.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>If you can, Harris recommends always opting for grass-fed meat. Now, <em>grass-fed <\/em>has become a bit of a buzzword in health and well-being conversations, but Harris provides some thought-provoking insight into the cattle-raising process: On Harris\u2019 farm, it takes cows about two years on the pasture to reach what he calls their \u201cslaughter weight,\u201d which is about 1,200 pounds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe life of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mindbodygreen.com\/articles\/you-should-be-mindful-of-factory-farmed-meat\">industrial creature<\/a> is very, very different,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt is all about how fast you can grow the animal and how cheaply you can do it.\u201d In the industrial model, he says it takes around 18 months for the cow to reach 1,500 or 1,600 pounds. \u201cIt produces an unnaturally obese creature that would never occur in nature,\u201d he explains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And unnaturally obese creatures have a much shorter life expectancy: Says Harris, the average natural lifespans of a cow is around 20 to 24 years; but if you left an industrial cow to live out its days in that feedlot, \u201c[it] wouldn&#8217;t live to be much older than that 24 months old,\u201d Harris notes. \u201cThe creature is dying of all the diseases [from] obesity and lack of exercise that kills most of us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Harris, it\u2019s naive to think that eating an unhealthy creature would have no impact on our own health. \u201cSomehow we have come to believe that eating a creature that is dying of obesity is just fine. It won&#8217;t hurt you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, grass-fed meat isn\u2019t accessible for everyone, but at the very least, try to understand where your animal sources come from and how their lives can affect your own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can, Harris recommends always opting for grass-fed meat. Now, grass-fed has become a bit of a buzzword in health and well-being conversations, but Harris provides some thought-provoking insight into the cattle-raising process: On Harris\u2019 farm, it takes cows about two years on the pasture to reach what he calls their \u201cslaughter weight,\u201d which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[140,53,85],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-gardening","tag-mbgpodcast","tag-plants"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}