“Healthy Is Not Just for the Wealthy”: How a Sick Soldier Created a Food That Serves, Not Sells | Phillip Meece

Everyday Ancestral with James Barry · Oct 9, 2025 · 1h 12m · transcript

Forget trail mix. What if survival food wasn’t junk? That’s what my guest Phillip Meece set out to change. Phillip is a former combat medic who served in Afghanistan and when he got sick in the Army, it put him on a lifelong mission to figure out nutrition that actually supports health. Out of that experience came The Carnivore Bar, a shelf stable nutrient dense version of pemmican made from meat, fat, and salt.

Phillip and I dig into how his childhood in Mongolia, his years in the Army, and even his time in theater shaped his vision for food that heals. We talk about what happens when access…