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68: Heard These 3 Anti-Beef Claims? Here’s How to Fight Back With Facts · CattleUSA Daily

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  Welcome to the Cattle USA Daily podcast, your go to source for
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  the latest livestock markets, industry insights and the
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  updates shaping agriculture today.
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  I'm your host Lauren Moylan, a passionate advocate for
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  agriculture, here to keep you informed and connected.
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  Now let's dive into today's episode.
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  Welcome to another episode of the Cattle USA Daily podcast.
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  Thank you so much for being here.
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  Today we are going to be talking a little bit about some anti
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  beef narrative, what that means, where they come from and some of
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  the I picked top three. It might not be top 3/3 things
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  that we hear a lot about in the media as far as the like anti
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  beef culture goes and how we can combat those as people within
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  agriculture. And just really equip ourselves
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  with some quick, easy facts that you guys can remember.
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  And just some tidbits of information on both sides, where
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  it's coming from, how we can combat it, and what that looks
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  like. But first and foremost, I want
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  to discuss where the anti beef narrative comes from.
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  I feel like it's really important have a good basic
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  understanding of where this is coming from in order to combat
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  it. So first and foremost, we're
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  seeing it from three main places.
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  So we're seeing it from mainstream media and pop
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  culture, we're seeing it from well funded advocacy groups, and
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  then we're also seeing it from environmental extremism online.
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  So with the mainstream media and pop culture, this is where
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  you're seeing the really oversimplified and just really
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  catchy headlines like cow farts are killing the planet, but then
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  they're not explaining it with any scientific content.
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  And this is also where we're seeing documentaries like
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  Cowspiracy or What the Health, where it has shaped millions of
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  opinions with flawed data, emotional music, and honestly
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  just 0 producer input at the end of the day.
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  And I think it's really important to remember as
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  producers that when Hollywood drives the story of agriculture,
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  the truth tend to tends to get trampled, right?
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  We know this. We know that even if it is a
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  well produced show about agriculture or it's a Western
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  ROM com or something like that, they still Get the facts wrong,
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  like, and I think that it's not always 100% Hollywood's fault,
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  right? If you talk to a doctor, they're
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  going to say that everything on Grey's Anatomy is incorrect,
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  right? So it's not always 100%
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  Hollywood's fault, but they do drive the story in context like
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  this as far as the mainstream media goes and as far as
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  different documentaries and things like that.
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  So I think it's important to remember that our voices as
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  agriculturalists are not heard in Hollywood and that a lot of
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  mainstream media and pop culture, a lot of opinions get
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  derived from that. Next, well funded advocacy
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  groups. So this is where you're seeing
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  institutions and organizations like the Good Food Institute or
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  Eat Lance Commission or some others that shall not be named
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  that I think you guys can connect the dots where they
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  receive millions to billions of dollars in funding from people
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  that are pushing a plant based future.
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  These groups have marketing teams, they have lobbyists, they
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  have PR firms and a clear agenda.
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  That agenda is to reduce or eliminate animal agriculture.
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  When you have billions upon billions of dollars and a whole
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  team of people dedicated to fighting against agriculture
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  with really snippy and like easy to digest quick things that like
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  when they put a headline out there, Dang those, it's hard not
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  to fall into those, those headlines.
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  It's hard not to believe what they're saying, right?
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  And I think it's important like, this isn't just a food fight.
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  This is a fight for narrative control.
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  And beef producers have just genuinely just been left out of
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  the room in a lot of these situations and discussions.
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  So #3 environmental extremism online.
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  So this is where you're seeing your eco influencers on TikTok
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  and Instagram with millions of followers that oversimplify
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  climate conversation. And I think that this goes
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  outside of just eco conversation.
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  This goes to just animal activist extremism online where
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  influencers, influencers, I'm saying in quotations heavy on
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  that have a lot of power with their audience that they can sit
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  there and they could probably say that they're like earth is
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  flat and a lot of people would believe them, right?
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  Like if they say it with enough authority and if they say it
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  with enough just and they capture that viewer in the first
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  few seconds. I think it's like algorithms
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  amplify shock value content. That's what I call content,
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  where they are coming in and they say something really quick
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  that like it jolts you, right? Like you're like, wait, what?
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  What do you mean? What is, what is that?
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  And so the algorithms are amplifying that, meaning that
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  the louder and more extreme are more like like the louder and
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  more extreme it is, the more likely it is to spread, no
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  matter how true it is. And I do have a stat that I want
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  to share with you guys on this. So Google search trends show a
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  400% increase in plant based searches from 2016 to 2.
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  And nearly all major fast food chains now offer plant based
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  options. This is a cultural thing, not
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  just nutritional. This is a cultural shift that we
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  have seen, not just a nutritional shift.
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  So now let's dive into three different anti beef claims that
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  I want to talk about with you guys and some facts that you
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  guys can have to fight back. So claim number one, cattle are
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  the biggest cause of climate change.
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  OK, we hear this one a lot. This is not a new claim, but
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  here's why it's wrong. The EPA reports that all of US
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  agriculture accounts for 11% of total greenhouse gas emissions,
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  and beef cattle are only about 2.2% of total US emissions.
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  Compare that to transportation, which is at 29% in energy
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  production, which is at 25% of the total emissions in the US.
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  And I think the key point here, a lot of us understand this as
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  agriculturalist and especially as the fact of climate change
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  and cow farts and all of those things have been really hot for
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  about the past couple years. But cattle are part of the
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  natural carbon cycle. So this isn't like we're burning
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  fossil fuels, which releases carbon that was previously
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  stored for millions of years. So we are releasing in like the
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  natural carbon cycle, the carbon that is being released, it was
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  previously stored for millions of years.
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  Like it's just, it's a cycle, right?
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  It's not like we're sitting here burning fossil fuels and
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  releasing those into the atmosphere, right?
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  So cattle are part of the natural carbon cycle.
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  I think that is a really easy fact to remember and really big
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  key point in this, that if people say that cow farts are
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  killing the planet, then hey, there's your thing.
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  Cattle are part of the natural carbon cycle.
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  They're cycling things in and out.
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  So cattle aren't just creating carbon, they are cycling it.
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  Globally, cattle account for about 6% of GHGS, so not the
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  majority by any stretch. Like not even, not even close in
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  any way, shape or form. And it is also important to
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  remember that beef production has reduced emissions per pound
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  of beef by about 30% in the last 30 years.
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  As we continue to build a better beef ecosystem and better
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  ranches and be more sustainable and just really look at growing
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  a better animal, we are naturally going along this path.
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  For the last 30 years, have we been talking about climate
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  change? No, we have not.
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  Well, maybe some people have, but not in the ag industry.
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  And that has not been a main focus.
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  But you can see that over the last 30 years, we've seen a 30%
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  decrease in emissions per pound. So even though we weren't
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  trying, we were still doing it because we were building better
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  beef, building a more sustainable herd, and really
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  just working to be a better industry as a whole.
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  So if people are saying this, remember cattle are part of the
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  natural carbon cycle. Beef cattle are only about two
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  per two, 2.2% of total US emissions.
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  AG accounts for 11%. And then just throw at them that
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  their cars are 30% and their energy production is 25%.
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  So which puts it way off. And as far as what AG is OK #2
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  beef is bad for your health. This is one that bounces in and
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  out of trends. So I would say that it is still
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  one that gets pushed really heavily.
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  But there's also been as far as like TikTok and social media
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  influencers and all of those things goes, it bounces in and
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  out, right? Sometimes it's trending that
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  beef is bad for your health. Sometimes it is trending that
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  beef is a great like nutrient protein source.
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  And you know what, Maybe I'm just on the right side of TikTok
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  now, but I think it is still important to be equipped with
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  the facts of why beef is good for your health.
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  So we're still going to discuss this one.
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  So why it is wrong? Beef is one of the most nutrient
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  dense foods on earth. It provides high quality
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  complete protein, bioavailable iron, zinc and vitamin B12.
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  All of these nutrients that are harder to get from plant based
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  sources. So you need here's here's a
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  little fact that you can remember.
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  You'd need to eat 8 cups of spinach to get the same amount
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  as same amount of iron as a three ounce serving of beef.
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  And your body absorbs more from the beef. 1/3 ounce serving of
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  beef provides nearly half of your daily protein needs now.
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  Or should most of us be eating a lot more protein than that?
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  Yes, but according to National Health organizations and their
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  recommendations for daily protein needs, that is what they
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  say. But the gist of that is beef is
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  filling your protein needs very well.
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  You are getting a ton of naturally derived vitamins and
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  nutrients that you don't need to be taking a bunch of supplements
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  on the counter every single morning.
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  Just go eat some beef, right? So here are some other facts to
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  understand about this and underserved populations.
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  Animal source foods are critical for growth, cognitive develop,
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  and disease prevention. This is probably an area that I
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  get so riled up when people talk about how animal protein is bad
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  for your health, right? We are so lucky here in the US
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  to be able to have a wide variety of protein availability
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  to us, right? Like you go to the grocery store
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  and you have every protein that you could possibly think of at
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  your fingertips. Not all populations have that,
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  and not all people even not all people here in the US have that,
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  right? Animal protein is providing
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  great vitamins, great nutrients, and it is vital for growth and
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  cognitive develop development and disease prevention as well.
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  So it ticks me off to no end when people sit here and they
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  say that cattle are killing the planet and all of this and beef
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  is bad, Don't eat it. It's bad for your heart, it's
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  bad for your health. It's going to kill you.
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  People that are vegan or living longer and all of this stuff and
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  they take into no account the people in this world that have
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  no other option. And they are spreading
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  misinformation at mass rates that if we have an underserved
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  population here in the US, that a mom is going to the grocery
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  store and the only thing that she is able to provide for her
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  children that week is some type of beef then.
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  And she feels guilty about that because she saw some influencer
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  on TikTok talking about how beef is bad for your health and how
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  cattle are killing the planet. Like that tick.
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  All that ticks me off to no end, no end at all.
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  And I know that's just me getting off on a little bit of a
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  rant, but it's still extremely important to remember that it is
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  great for your overall health and it provides you with a lot
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  of things that you need to function as a human.
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  Another extra fact for you guys is studies linking red meat to
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  cancer or heart disease often only rely on weak observational
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  data and don't isolate lean beef from processed meats.
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  So that is a big fighting thing that people have been pushing,
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  right? There are studies out there that
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  say that red meat is linked to cancer and heart disease and all
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  of the yadda, yadda, yadda. Like that's their, that's their
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  thing right now is that red meat is causing cancer and heart
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  disease and that it's linked to them.
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  Well, it is important to remember that not all scientific
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  studies are created equal and not all studies, like, it is
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  important to remember that like, don't just look at the
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  headlines, right? Don't just look at the
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  headlines. Don't just look at the articles
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  written about the studies. You need to go actually read
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  them. So most of the studies that are
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  linking red meat to cancer and heart disease, they are
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  observational. So they're just looking at
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  things. They're not doing a ton of
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  testing on different situations. And then they're not isolating
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  lean beef from processed meats. We all can sit here and tell you
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  that the ground beef that is in my freezer is very different
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  from the hamburger Patty that you're getting from McDonald's,
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  right? Like those are two extremely
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  different things. And if you only eat McDonald's
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  hamburgers, you could take everything off and just eat the
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  hamburgers for the rest of your life.
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  Yeah, you might have some issues.
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  But if you take my lean ground beef that is in my freezer, that
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  is very different, very, very, very different than that
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  processed meat. OK.
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  So that is also important to remember that when facts are
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  being spewed at you like that, that they sound great, right?
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  Like there's been scientific studies done that are linking
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  red meat to cancer. That grabs your attention real
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  quick. And then you sit there and you
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  second guess like, wait, scientific studies done.
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  OK, what is this about? Right?
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  Everyone does that. But it is important to use our
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  critical reading skills and go and actually Get the facts from
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  these right and not just the quick headlines that are feeding
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  narratives. So the at the end of the day,
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  guys, we're not just feeding people, we are fueling health.
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  Removing beef from the plate is a public health risk.
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  Point blank period, end of discussion is a public health
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  OK #3 Cattle are abused and factory farms are cruel.
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  This is one that I think we are fighting more and more as of
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  current. And I just had a really amazing
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  discussion with Kristen Nichols, doctor Kristen Nichols from
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  Certified Angus Beef, and she said that we are actually seeing
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  a little bit of a consumer trend away from environmental
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  practices and caring. They still care about those, but
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  it's almost, it's just an expectation now rather than
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  point pointing it out a ton. And they're seeing more of a
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  consumer trend towards animal welfare and factory farms and
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  what all of that means, right. And so I think that this is an
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  area that I left this one for last for a reason.
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  This is one that needs to be talked about and we need to know
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  how to communicate well and with facts about animal welfare
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  within the cattle industry. And outside of just having a
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  conversation and sharing your own individual story, I think
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  it's important to know some facts that you can share within
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  those conversations, right? Because if you're having a
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  conversation with a consumer and you're able to sit there and
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  you're like, not on my like ranching operation, this is how
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  we do things and this is how we operate.
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  And these are our focuses and all of these things.
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  That's amazing. That's really, really important
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  to have. And that personal relationship
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  is great, but it's also you need to stand up for the beef
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  industry as a whole, not just for your ranching operation.
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  So here's some facts for you. Over 91% of US cattle operations
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  are family owned, not some nameless quote UN quote factory
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  farm. And I'm not even going to get
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  into the factory farm thing because in my opinion that's not
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  a thing. Like I don't believe in those
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  words. But if we went down that rabbit
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  hole, that would be an entire episode in its own for me.
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  So I'm not even going to get into that in the aspect of like,
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  it's just important to remember that.
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  Like there is a way that you can communicate this.
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  But I think it's also important to just like steer away from the
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  factory farms thing, right? Like they're just really remind
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  people to like those really aren't a thing.
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  Like 91% of US cattle operations are family owned and that other
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  9% that aren't family owned, they are business owned or
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  multiple families own them or there's factory farm is not a
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  word I like to use. So really just try and steer
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  away from that and don't try and just focus on it at all #2.
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  Another fact that you can share, I really like sharing about BQA.
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  So beef quality assurance and the fact that we have strict
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  animal welfare standards in place and that with a BQA
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  certification, it prioritizes humane treatment and low stress
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  cattle handling. And that with that you can share
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  the over 85% of US beef comes from BQA certified operations.
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  So I would really like to get that number up.
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  I think the BQA certificate are really easy to get.
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  They're super obtainable, they're awesome to have.
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  And it's just another certification that you can have
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  for your operation. Having that as another thing
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  that you can throw out there that like hey, we have this
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  really awesome regulatory thing that we can opt into taking and
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  85% of us do 85% of us say that like yes, this is important to
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  us and we are going to get BQA certified.
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  That way the consumer knows that we are able to sit here and say
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  that their beef is coming from an A farm or a ranching
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  operation that prioritizes humane treatment and low stress
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  cattle handling. And then the last thing I want
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  to kind of point out as far as like why it's wrong, a lot of
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  cattle handling and abuse things come from situations like viral
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  footage. We all remember the fair life
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  situation that happened like 10 years ago.
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  Now, at this point, that's just a really good example that I
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  still like to use when I'm talking to producers, right?
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  So we remember what happened with Fair Life and the fact that
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  they had a lot of bad actors come in and take video of abuse
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  of calves, abuse of cattle on those operations.
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  And then it got made into a full blown documentary and it got put
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  everywhere and blasted. And this was a thing that
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  happened over years, right? And so I think it's important to
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  remember that this viral footage often comes from isolated bad
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  actors and that it is not a representation of how cattle are
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  cared for across the industry. And the way that we communicate
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  that matters to the people that are consumers.
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  They don't care that people were probably hired to come in and do
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  those videos, right? That a lot of those well funded
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  groups, there have been claims, and I am not claiming this, but
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  there have been claims put out there by other people that some
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  of these well funded groups pay people to go in and to get
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  become an employee and then to do these things to record these
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  videos to fit their narrative, right?
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  Or you just see isolated bad actors that are getting caught
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  and then it gets blown up, right?
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  At the end of the day, we care about how our cattle are
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  treated, right? If we mistreat our animals, we'd
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  be out of business. Healthy cattle equals high
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  quality beef. So we care.
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  We care a lot about what our cattle are feeling like, how
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  their stresses all of these things.
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  Because if we have cattle that are in low stress environments
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  and being treated well, they're going to produce a better
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  quality beef or they're going to produce a better quality milk
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  product or whatever the outcome of that animal is, They're going
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  to be better equipped to do their job.
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  And so we care in really communicating that aspect.
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  But hey, like I care about my cattle.
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  I care about my operation and the fact like share some facts
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  about, hey, if I have cattle that are in super high stress
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  situations, I'm going to be at risk for not having as much
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  marbling in their meat. And that's how I, I get paid
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  more and better for this higher quality beef product.
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  So I don't want to put my cattle in these high stress situations
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  from a business aspect, from a point that like I care, but then
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  also it would be silly for me too, right?
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  Like it's not a way for me to cut corners by having a high
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  stress operation. So, and I think it's also it's
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  just one of those situations where you have to be willing at
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  the end of the day to sit down with all three of these claims
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  guys, like all three of these claims that we talked about.
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  You have to be willing to sit down and have a conversation and
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  be willing to share your side of the story with the facts, but
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  also without the facts. Because I talk all the time.
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  Like you're probably like Lauren, you've talked multiple
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  times about how it's more important that you share the
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  emotional side and not the facts.
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  Yes, it is. But I think when you can find a
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  merge of the 2 is where real impact happens, right?
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  So if you can take 1 fact from each of these points that I made
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  today and remember them, just account them to your memory, put
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  them in your notes app on your phone, whatever it may be.
• 22:22
  That way you are equipped when these situations come up of hey,
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  people are talking about how calorie used, that is a great
• 22:29
  opportunity for you to step in and be like, let me share my
• 22:32
  story. But then you're also going to be
• 22:35
  equipped with the fact of, hey, actually 85% of the beef that is
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  coming to your plate comes from BQA certified operations and
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  share what BQA is. And sharing a fact in
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  combination with your story is where the impact is going to
• 22:51
  happen and where you're actually going to truly start to leave
• 22:55
  these consumers and people that are fighting this anti beef
• 23:00
  narrative. You're going to start fighting
• 23:02
  back. And AG needs to start fighting
• 23:05
  back. We have got to stop standing on
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  the sidelines and letting ourselves get trampled over.
• 23:10
  We have got to stand up for ourselves, stand up for our
• 23:13
  industry because guess what? We're the only ones that are
• 23:16
  right. We have amazing organizations
• 23:18
  out there from the beef industry that are standing up for us and
• 23:22
  doing a ton of advocacy work and working to fight.
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  But at the end of the day, we need these grassroots
• 23:28
  initiatives. We need people in their everyday
• 23:31
  lives, in their small town communities all across the
• 23:33
  world, all across the United States, standing up for AG,
• 23:37
  Whatever that looks like for you, whether it is in a grocery
• 23:40
  store or whether it's on social media or whether it is on a
• 23:43
  mainstage. I don't care what that looks
• 23:45
  like for you, but you have got to start standing up for AG and
• 23:49
  be equipped with your story and then the facts and merge the
• 23:54
  two. It's as simple as that.
• 23:55
  So I hope you guys got some really great info from this
• 23:59
  episode. Maybe you learned something new,
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  which would be even cooler, right?
• 24:03
  Like, I really hope that maybe I brought a fact to you today that
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  even as a producer within the industry that you were able to
• 24:09
  learn something new and come away just feeling more equipped
• 24:13
  to start having these discussions.
• 24:15
  Because at the end of the day, right, like a lot of us don't
• 24:18
  want to have these discussions because we don't, we don't feel
• 24:21
  equipped for it. We don't feel like we're the
• 24:22
  person that is able to accurately share about the beef
• 24:26
  industry. And I hope that these facts that
• 24:28
  I gave you today just make you feel a little bit more equipped
• 24:30
  to start having these conversations.
• 24:32
  So thank you guys so much for listening to another episode of
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  the podcast. As always, if you could like
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• 24:49
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• 24:52
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• 24:55
  So thank you guys so much for another amazing episode and
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  happy Friday. This is a Friday episode coming
• 25:03
  out. I hope that you guys have a
• 25:04
  great rest of your day and we will see you all on Monday.
• 25:08
  Have a good one y'all.