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The Conscientious Omnivore: Pork

Author’s Note: If you are new to our site, please read the preface to our Conscientious Omnivore series first. We know this stuff isn’t easy, and we know you can only do the best you can with the resources and capacity you have. But it’s important for you to know where your Good Food comes [...]

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An Interview and Giveaway with TX Bar Ranch

If, as the saying goes, happy cows come from California, then the cows from TX Bar Ranch in Northern California must be ecstatic. With years of experience under his belt, Tyler Martinez has built his ranch from the calf up. He founded and runs his business, in cooperation with his son, on a foundation of [...]

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Whole9 Visits the Farm

by Erin Handley, Whole9′s Director of Operations, who has found that knowledge is always powerful, rarely ever easy, and can sometimes lead to the petting of small farm animals. I have recently been tasked with doing research for our upcoming Conscientious Omnivore post on pigs and pork. I thought I was already fairly knowledgeable and, well… awake [...]

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Whole30® Approved: Pastoral Plate

“Consumers are the most potent force in the food supply chain … but only if they want to be.”   from PastoralPlate.com We are thrilled to introduce the newest addition to our Whole30® Approved family, Pastoral Plate. Jonathan and Elisa, the father-daughter team behind the San Francisco Bay area Pastoral Plate, are passionate about their mission: [...]

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Whole30 Approved Bacon is Here

Today’s post is the result of a specific demand within our community – and we’re all about fulfilling our reader’s demands. But this one was a bit tricky, because of the nature of what you’ve been asking us for. You. Want. Bacon. Specifically, you want Whole30-approved bacon, with no added sugar in any form. This [...]

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The Whole9 Seafood Trifecta

Today, we’re going to cross-reference a vast number of resources to help you arrive at the best-of-the-best, our “Seafood Trifecta”: Seafood that is (a) healthy for you, the environment and the fish populations, (b) high in healthy Omega-3 fatty acids, and (c) low in mercury. [...]

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The Conscientious Omnivore: From the Sea

Making “good” seafood choices is perhaps one of the most complicated tasks for us Conscientious Omnivores. Most folks assume it’s as simple as Wild Caught = Good Choice, but we believe that is a dangerously simplistic view to take, and could prove detrimental to a variety of factors- the delicate marine ecosystem, the population of sea creatures, and your health, to name a few. [...]

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The Conscientious Omnivore: Eggs

Eggs are a staple in many of our refrigerators. They provide a complete, easily available protein source (you can buy eggs just about anywhere these days – even your local gas station), at a cost that most health-conscious families consider to be reasonable and affordable. But “cheap” eggs are not really cheap when you factor in all of the hidden costs to the environment, animal welfare, society and your health. [...]

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Science experiments

Just the other day, one of the local pediatricians was telling me he’s seeing all kinds of illnesses that he never used to see. Not only juvenile diabetes, but inflammatory and autoimmune diseases that a lot of the docs don’t even know what to call. [...]

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The conscientious omnivore

As we’ve got the “choices” part down, we’ve spent the last few months expanding on the concept of “eating healthy food.” The natural place for us to start was taking a good, hard look at our food quality – specifically, where our animal protein comes from. You are what you eat, quite literally, and we believe they health of the animals you eat impacts your own health in a far more direct manner than, say, the quality of your vegetables or fruits. [...]

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