HeyJaredAshley Armstrong
PhD in Mechanical Engineering turned regenerative farmer, writing about metabolism, fatty acids, and human health while building a better food system from the ground up.
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The Prettiest Summer Soup You’ve Never Heard Of (opens the original)
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One of my hobbies is exploring traditional food cultures. And the more I explore them, the more I realize how little of this we have left in America.Sure, we have foods that are distinctly “American”: barbecue, burgers, hot dogs, cornbread, biscuits and gravy, clam chowder, and some regional dishes with genuinely interesting histories.But many of us have lost the recipes and cooking traditions of our great-grandmothers.We don’t necessarily learn how to cook by standing next to Grandma in the kit
Why Are Male Cattle Producing Milk? Inside the Feminization of Modern Beef (opens the original)
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Do male cattle produce milk?Apparently now they do!Leave it to the American food system to have us talking about lactating male cattle.You may have heard about the recent research documenting this bizarre phenomenon, but if you haven’t, here’s the headline:Researchers evaluated more than 20,000 finished cattle from 33 feedlots and found that approximately 17% of the male cattle they examined were lactating.Yes… a significant percentage of the male cattle were producing milk.And just to be very c
Soup in the Summer? Traditional Cultures Have Been Doing It Forever (opens the original)
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Apparently people think it’s weird to eat soup in the summer.I used to think so too, until I realized that our whole concept of “soup season” is a pretty modern idea.We’ve kind of turned soup into this quintessential cozy fall and winter food. The temperature drops, you pull out the Dutch oven, make a big pot of soup, put on a sweater, and suddenly it’s officially soup season.But who decided soup needed a season?Because historically, that really wasn’t the case.Traditional food cultures all over
What to Eat for Natural Sun Protection: 5 Dietary Pillars for Healthier, More Resilient Skin (opens the original)
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Skin cancer rates are on the rise.Yet humans have lived under the sun for our entire history. And compared to previous generations, many people spend more time indoors than ever before. So… why are melanoma rates continuing to climb?<source type="image/webp"
Big Egg, Big Lettuce, and the Architecture of the American Food System (opens the original)
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Last week we exposed Big Pork.This week…Meet Big Egg 🥚and Big Lettuce. 🥬The recent nationwide Salmonella egg recall and multistate diarrhea lettuce outbreak may seem like unrelated events.But they’re actually exposing the exact same problem.The more we pull back the curtain on our modern food system, the more you realize the issue isn’t just the food.It’s the way the centralized food system was designed!🥚 Big EggThe recent egg recall is a per
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