Episode Details

Welcome back everyone, I'm Brian Sanders and I quit my job and have dedicated my life to the investigation of nutrition and lifelong health. I'm creating the feature length documentary Food Lies, this podcast, and a health technology company here in Los Angeles with a doctor and 2 other partners.

Today I'm talking to Tara Couture who is a certified nutritionist, homestead farmer, expert in nutrient dense cooking and living, and maybe my new favorite person ever.

She's raised her family for 25 years on the most amazing, nutrient dense foods you can imagine using her nutrition background, teachings from Weston A. Price, raw milk from farmer friends, and mostly her own animals she raises. She butchers her own animals, churns her own butter, makes her own head cheese, etc., etc. She is the real deal. Check out what I'm talking about before you even listen to this episode on her amazing Instagram account http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead

She's a wealth of information and I genuinely enjoyed our talk. We get into vegan lies, the canadian mafia-like police arresting people for selling food they produced by hand, crazy family members refusing to eat her food, and a lot more. Her husband is an ER doctor and deals with some of this insanity as well.

Don't forget you can still preorder the Food Lies film on Indiegogo to support its creation and this podcast. Thanks again for everyone's support so far and please enjoy this great episode with Tara Couture.

http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post

Show Notes

• She has the best Instagram account in the game http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead
• She lives on a homestead farm in Canada and raises basically all her own animals and food
• She eats the most glorious, nutrient food you can imagine
• Tara and her husband (who is a doctor) were in the military and moved around for many years. Every place they went they immediately found local farmers to supply them with the nutrient dense food they needed
• She bought deep freezers on Craigslist for $50 and bought bulk animals for the whole year
• People in cities can go to farmers markets or get involved with a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
• Her daughter is living in a small apartment and buying bulk meat from farmers and deep freezing as well
• It doesn't have to be all or nothing - do what you can
• Daughters went off and ate normal food with friends as teenagers and felt sick and hated it
• She's eating an animal food-only diet currently but doesn't like to call it carnivore or keto because that's not what she's after - she's going after nutrient density
• She lists some of the things she eats daily - duck confit, head cheese, rabbit liver, kidney, adn heart pate, duck prosciutto… the list goes on
• Duck prosciutto sounds fancy but is actually super easy to make
• We've been sold a bunch of lies by big food producers making it seem like they're the only ones that can feed us and it's so hard to cook on your own
• She inexplicably has a 26 year old daughter while looking 26 herself
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