#122 - Why We Eat Local & Farm-Friendly Food

Why eat local? What if it isn’t easy? What if the things I want aren't available? What's the point? Alison and I have both considered these questions for ourselves and factored them into decisions that we’ve made about how we live our everyday lives. We didn’t make the changes overnight, and we don’t even suggest people do so. After the many books we have read, the real-life experiences we have had, and guests we have interviewed on the subject of factory farming vs humane peasant farming, we have come to some conclusions about eating local that might surprise you. They might not be the conclusions or the “arguments” you were expecting.

This episode features an aftershow which could possibly be described as a little bit salty, where some spicier opinions came to the fore. It was impossible to include everything we had to say and keep the main episode at a reasonable length of time. If you want to hear this aftershow as well as over 140 other episodes on our more informal, private podcast Kitchen Table Chats, hop over to ancestralkitchenpodcast.com/join and join at companionship or above level. Thank you for your continued support and to all the supporters, reviewers and listeners who made this episode possible.

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What We Covered:

1. Simple breakfast, and pheasant in Britain
2. A new, free rye resource from Alison
3. What countries are our listeners coming from?
4. How do they listen?
5. See the full list on our podcast website
6. Shout out to young listeners
7. Why do we eat local?
8. Eating like a human - behaving like a human
9. What is farm-friendly food
10. Is everything we eat local?
11. Healthcare spending and food spending
12. Money matters
13. Our plan to save the world (it might shock you)
14. What we can do
15. What is our responsibility?

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Each of the episodes mentioned here includes an entirely packed show notes of further reading and links on that specific topic!

1. Episode 46: Sir Patrick Holden
2. Episode 116: Leftovers and Scraps in a Frugal Ancestral Kitchen
3. Episode 103: 10 Nourishing Traditions Dishes Cheaper Than Supermarkets!
4. Episode 102: The Guide to Getting Out of Supermarkets
5. Episode 74: 14 Tips for Changing Your Food Habits
6. Episode 69: Fake Food v Small Farms