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Rob Mcdaniel

Rob Mcdaniel

Chef

Sep 28, 2026

31:48
Why are you so adamant about no corn and no soy?
31:53
Yeah, the Vital Farms thing was so funny to me because- everybody got so mad that they were feeding them corn and soy.
32:00
But I mean, the, the big thing is they're selling these as pasture raised chickens and they're all raised in grow houses.
32:06
And so the, the pastor raised rule by the USDA only applies to meat birds.
32:12
So eggs actually fall under the FDA and they haven't updated their guidelines.
32:17
And so, they can still sell pasture-raised chickens that are raised in grow houses as long as they have access to the outdoors because for the longest time free range and pasture-raised only needed access to the outdoors and and they can still be pasture-raised so it was it was hilarious to me that everybody was up in arms about them eating corn and soy when really they're being marketed as pasture-raised chickens and they're raised in grow houses so I thought that would have been much more of a story, but it really wasn't.
32:44
And like I said, 99.9% of chickens in America are the same as cows.

33 MINS LATER

65:24
Um, what is something about the industrial meat system that we haven't mentioned yet that you think would general genuinely surprise people if they heard it firsthand?

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