Ranching Reimagined: Sovereign Health Framework vs. One Health—The Battle for Food Sovereignty

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What if the food you eat and the health you build weren’t controlled by corporate giants? Texas Slim, RS "Ruffshot" June, and Breeauna Sagdal join Dr. Kat Lindley to break down the growing battle between sovereign food systems and top-down, globalist control over agriculture.

This episode exposes the One Health Framework, a centralized system backed by the WHO and Bill Gates that seeks to merge agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and environmental policy into a singular framework. The alternative? The Sovereign Health Framework—a decentralized, rancher-led revolution prioritizing direct-to-consumer beef, regenerative farming, and community-funded research.

Key Topics:

• The decline of family farms and the rise of Big Ag monopolies.
• Why most grocery store beef isn’t American—and how labeling laws deceive consumers.
• Montana’s HB418 & state-level fights against mRNA in livestock.
• How Bitcoin and Beef Maps are creating a parallel economy for ranchers.
• Why shaking your rancher’s hand is the real solution to food sovereignty.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (01:11):
When I was a little boy, I was out here in the
pasture and, talking with my dadand he said, son, what do you
wanna do for a living when yougrow up? And I said, dad, I
wanna ranch. I wanna raisecattle. And he looked at me in
all seriousness. He says, well,you better find a good job.

(01:54):
Ginger Hill has always, we'vealways been focused on raising
practical cattle that couldsurvive and thrive under
grassland conditions. That's soimportant, for our product. We
we produce an animal that needsto go out into commercial herds,
and our cattle are known forgoing out in these commercial

(02:15):
herds and being able to maintaintheir their their flesh and
their capacity and do whatthey're they're supposed to do.
I think the diversity within ourindustry and the differences
between the way I do somethingand the way my neighbor does
something or way my friends inNorth Dakota do something is
actually a strength for thebreed and for the cattle

(02:39):
industry.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Come back.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Well, I wanna welcome you all on behalf of, our entire
family, the Miller and Kitafamily. Basically, a world
leader in the in the, microbiomeof the intestinal tract. And do
you want me to collect it foryou, mister David? Okay.
Alright.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yeah. Making you

Speaker 1 (03:27):
So is that the first one you've ever collected?

Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Alright. Hey. We are making history here today. I
mean, this is this isenvironmentally sustainable.
This is this is good for theenvironment.
It's not cows are not killingthe environment. And when they
come out here and they visit arancher, develop a relationship,
they see that he lives on thisland, he loves this land, and

(03:50):
he's definitely not gonna doanything to defile this land.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
Hello, everyone. I'm doctor Kath Lindley,
independent, medicine alliancesenior fellow in family
medicine. Hello, and welcome toall of you who are watching
online and streaming with us. Wehave an exciting evening with,
folks from beef initiative. Sotonight, we're gonna have Texas

(04:21):
Slim, who is the CEO of the BeefInitiative and president of I am
Texas Slim Foundation.
Texas Slim is a visionary leaderdedicated to restoring food food
integrity and decentralizedecentralizing the beef supply
chain. We also have Aris Joon,who is chief creative strategist
at the beef initiative. Joonleads strategy and partnership

(04:43):
to expand the initiatives impactand serves as the executive
producer of the beef mapsdocuseries. We also have one of
my favorite, researchers andwriters, Brianna Suggdorf.
Brianna is a senior writer andresearch fellow at I'm Texas
Slim Foundation.
She specializes in agriculturalpolicy, food sovereignty, and

(05:05):
health freedom. She collaborateswith legislators, renters, and
experts to a demand solution toregenerative agriculture. And
finally, Jeffrey Forrester,director of strategic
partnerships at the I'm TexasSlim Foundation. Jeffrey
represents the beef initiativein public forums, conferences,
and media amplifying itsmission. He also secures grants

(05:28):
and funding to supportinitiatives, sustainability, and
growth.
And for those of you who followme on next, you know how much I
love beef initiative andeverything that they're doing.
So we're gonna start ourconversation tonight with, June.
And thank you, gentlemen. AndBrianna is gonna join us a
little bit later. But thank you,gentlemen, for joining us.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Thank you so much, Kat doctor Kat. It is such a
pleasure to be here. This is ahuge opportunity for the beef
initiative and for all of us inindependent forms of, you know,
society, culture, lifestyle,science, what have you. So we're

(06:16):
here to talk about, somethingthat we're calling the sovereign
health model. And it sounds likeit might be a play on another
kind of model that we know.
It's called the one healthmodel. And, tonight, I would
like to, share a presentationwith you guys. So I'll go ahead

(06:42):
and share my screen now ifthat's okay. Please. And how how
does that work?

Speaker 2 (06:53):
There you go.

Speaker 4 (06:54):
We can see it now.

Speaker 3 (06:55):
Okay. Wonderful. Wonderful. So okay. So let's
let's get into, well, first ofall, let's very quickly talk
about the the video we justwatched.
So that video was filmed, filmedand edited by myself, in Texas

(07:16):
Slim's pickup truck, with adented door. We traveled 13,000
miles in the summer and springof twenty twenty three. We
visited a lot of the ranchesthat now populate beefmaps.com,
1 of our platforms. We traveledfrom Texas to Virginia, back to

(07:43):
Missouri, Arkansas, NorthernCalifornia. I went back to
Florida, and this entire time,we traveled on pretty much
nothing but dirt roads.
We did not take many majorhighway systems. And, as a kid
from Philly, you know, I neverreally left the East Coast that

(08:04):
much, and I had no idea thatthirty minutes outside of every
major highway system is cattlecountry. It was something that
was stolen from my imagination,and, I think it's been stolen. I
I think our shared agriculturalheritage has been stolen from,

(08:26):
all of our imaginations. Andwhat Texas Slim showed me on
that trip was that truth andtrust and self reliance are
still very much alive in Americadespite, all of the media and
all of the propaganda that wantsto say that, we we are against

(08:50):
each other and, you know, allthe things that come with all
the woke stuff, right, and andmodern day kind of politics.
So, anyway, one of those stopson our trip was Ginger Hill
Angus in Washington, Virginia.That's doctor Brook Miller. He
is one of your fellows here. Andhe helped us host, the Ginger

(09:14):
Hill Angus beef intelligencesummit. We've had about 25 of
these or so around the world.
Texas Slim, of course, startedit by himself, self funding it,
driving the philosophy, andreally driving home the idea
that the simplicity of shakingyour rancher's hand is the

(09:37):
solution that we are allyearning for. So, at Ginger Hill
Angus, doctor Brooke Millerbrought together, and and Texas
Slim, before the I am Texas SlimFoundation was created or or
rather before the I am TexasSlim Foundation was, was was
given its rights from thefederal government back in

(09:59):
January. Texas Slim droveeveryone to Ginger Hill. Doctor
Brook Miller hosted, and hebrought together leaders of
health and science and policy,and doctor Sabine Hazen was one
of those folks. And we saw inthat video I filmed, she

(10:20):
collected her her first samplesin her revolutionary work in the
microbiome of the cow.
So we'll get started from there.As the future of agriculture,
medicine, and health sovereigntycomes under increasing strain,

(10:41):
the I am Texas Slim Foundationand the beef initiative is
leading the charge to createlasting partnerships between
ranchers, scientists, andresearchers. Our mission is
simple yet vital. Connect thewisdom of traditional ranching
with cutting edge science touncover sustainable solutions
for health, agriculture, andself reliance self reliance.

(11:07):
Today, we face a choice betweentwo competing visions.
We see here the one healthmodel. If we all don't know what
that is, it's essentially thethe umbrella organization for
the Gates Foundation and theWorld Health Organization. It
encompasses a wide range ofdisciplines, and it brings them

(11:29):
all together, in in a new kindof interdisciplinary, science of
biology and human health. It'senvironmental health. It's
ecology, veterinary medicine,public health, human medicine,
molecular and microbiology, andhealth economics.
Right? There's a lot going on.The one health model is a oops.

(11:55):
The one health model is acentralized, top down system
that controls food, medicine,and scientific research through
monopolized funding, regulatorycapture, and industrial scale
interventions. Our model, thesovereign health model, is a
decentralized, independentframework that empowers local

(12:18):
communities like Washington,Virginia and Ginger Ho Angus,
Ranchers like doctor BrookMiller, and scientists like
doctor Sabine Hazen to take backcontrol over food, health, and
research through open sourceagriculture and self sovereign
science, thereby turning theranch into a living laboratory.

(12:40):
Right? This is this is thecollaboration that Bill Gates et
al have created in the onehealth model. The only
difference is is that they'refunded by centralized funding
mechanisms, of course, linked toall of the the problems that we
have today. Here's a nice shotof doctor Brook Miller and

(13:02):
doctor Sabine. The challenges.
The decline of family farms. TheU US farms have declined from
5,400,000 in 1950 to 1,890,000in 2023. Over a 41,000 farms

(13:26):
have vanished between 2017 and2022. The centralization forces
ranchers into dependence oncorporate agriculture and
federal subsidies. In sixtyseven years, we will lose the
last family farm.

(13:48):
70% of The US food supply is nowultra processed. This drives
obesity, type two diabetes,metabolic disease, and so much
more. Industrial food productionprioritizes efficiency over
nutrition. The corporate controlover agriculture and health. The

(14:11):
top four beef processors control85 of the beef in this country.
Most of you all do not eatAmerican beef. When you go to
the grocery store and you pickup a pack of ground beef from
Publix or Whole Foods orwherever and you test that DNA,
there's gonna be a hundreddifferent cows in that one pound

(14:34):
pack of ground beef. Yoursolution is the beef initiative
and shaking your rancher's hand.Big pharma and agribusiness
spends 33,000,000,000 annuallyto control research, public
perception, and policy, and thismonopolization ensures research
serves corporate profits, nothuman health. Let's look at a

(15:00):
couple slides here.
At 40% of the market share,abuses are very likely. In all

(15:23):
of these industries, the topfour corporations control 60% or
more. This is the beef industryand the hog industry. Research
and development expenditures ofThe US pharmaceutical industry

(15:44):
reached 96,000,000,000 in 2023.US health care and pharma
digital ad spending was$24,700,000,000.
Family farmers, almost $0. Wecannot even afford to buy $500

(16:07):
worth of ads. This is what we'reup against. The guidelines of
the USDA, the nutritionguidelines have been captured.
Nina Tickle's work with theNutrition Coalition.
If you haven't, gone into it,it's fantastic.

(16:30):
Nutritioncoalition.us. She'suncovered 700 plus conflicts of
interest that were found on thecommittee. One adviser alone had
a 52 ties to pharmaceutical andbig ag. Disgusting.

(16:55):
Then we come to the nineteenforties and fifties. We're gonna
go back for a second here. Wheredoes the one health model come
from? Well, we know that the onehealth model is
interdisciplinary. It'scollaborations between so many
different fields of interest.

(17:17):
Well, this kind of collaborationstarted in the nineteen fifties
nineteen forties and fifties,World War '2, the Cold War,
paranoia. This is when thecentralization of behavior and
societal control happened. Bigadvertising. Right? We'll look
at who was involved with this ina second here.

(17:38):
But this led to the one healthmodel, applying the same
cybernetic control to biology.And just just to to tell you
guys quickly, cybernetics isthe, is is the using human
behavior as a feedback mechanismto drive more of that behavior.
That's where it all started.Right? This led to centralized

(18:02):
research and big moneyinfluence.
Bill Gates, the World HealthOrganization, and Big Pharma now
fund and control research. Theinevitable outcome, I don't know
if you guys watch the SuperBowl, but that's right. Hims and

(18:23):
hers. This is an actual photofrom the cybernetics conference.
So this is neuropsychoneurophysiologists,
mathematicians, electricalengineers, neuro,
neuropsychologists,anthropologists, you name it.
Right? They were all here. Allall of all of the greats were
there. Kind of a scary picture.Right?

(18:49):
Cybernetic seance. The human useof human beings, Norbert Wiener
was a famous cyberneticist fromthat time.

Speaker 5 (19:00):
Obesity is America's deadliest epidemic. This is
America. Seventy Four Percent ofus are overweight, and obesity
leads to half a million deathseach year. I just have to stop
eating, Jimmy. Something'sbroken.
It's not our body. It's thesystem. Welcome to weight loss
in America. A $106,000,000,000industry that could lead to our

(19:22):
failure. There are medicationsthat work but they're priced for
profits not patients.
It's just a matter of Thissystem wasn't built to help us.
It was built to keep us sick andstuck, but not anymore. Hims and
Hers offers life changing weightloss medications. They are
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(19:44):
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You deserve to feel great inyour body. This is the future of
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healthier America.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
It's disturbing. And it's almost like they're using
the same language that we are.Right? The exact same language.
Alright.
Now let's move away from thedark stuff a little bit. Right?
We know what it is. Human beingsare not biologically dependent

(20:24):
on pharmaceutical products. It'sthe pharmaceutical companies
that are financially dependenton human beings.
Introducing the sovereign healthmodel. This is what we're
building. What we're buildinghas many facets, but I think

(20:49):
that we can sum up all the partsin just four, especially for the
purposes of our conversationhere today. We're building a new
health paradigm. Food ismedicine food is medicine,
prevention over pharmaceuticaldependency.

(21:10):
Miller Hazen. A new scientificstandard, community funded, peer
reviewed, reef research. Andthis comes in the form at first,
this came in the form of anevent that Texas slum and the
beef initiative hosted. Sabinewould have never gone out to

(21:30):
Virginia should we, if we hadnot had that event. She wasn't
gonna pay for her plane ticketto go out there.
People had to buy tickets. Halfof all tickets we sell at the
beef initiative, half of allbeef sales come in the form of
Bitcoin. So this is a a new foodmodel. This is peer to peer, and

(21:57):
it's rancher direct. And thefourth facet of this that I just
mentioned was the new monetarystandard.
We're not saying go % in allBitcoin, everything, all the
time, but we need to take itseriously as a model for

(22:18):
decentralization. Because wheredoes the where where does these,
pharmaceutical companies and,you know, where where do these
multinationals get all of theirfunding from? Right? They get it
from the government. Where's thegovernment get all their money
from?
Well, they get it from theFederal Reserve. They hit that
money printer button. Right?Bitcoin is a way out of that,

(22:44):
and so that's why we lean intoit on that on that front. And
just a little tale about Bitcoinand why it works for ranching.
We have a guy. His name is ColeBolton. He is our chief
business, officer here, and heis from K and C cattle. He has

(23:10):
owned a successful and sold aprocessing center that processed
over 400 local ranchers' beefs.The beef initiative helped get
them started.
30% of their customers came fromus. He sold that processing
center. Half of those customersbought their beef with Bitcoin.

(23:30):
He held on to that Bitcoin.Bitcoin turned into more money.
He bought more cows with it. Nowyou try doing that off of a farm
credit loan. Not gonna happen.You try doing that off of a
government subsidy. It's notgoing to happen.
So which path will you choose?We have two paths and two

(23:53):
futures. We've got the onehealth model, centralized
control, synthetic food,pharmaceutical dependency, and
we have sovereign health model,the model that we are all
pioneering here. We're justgiving it a name because we need
a brand. Right?
It's the sovereign health model.It's decentralized research.

(24:14):
It's independent ranchers, andit's self sovereign health. And
the Miller Hazen model is notjust an alternative. It's the
blueprint that we need toreplicate institutionally
through the I'm Texas SlimFoundation.

(24:36):
And we ask all of you to joinus, please. If you drop your
email at save beef dot org, itwill lead you to a partnership
questionnaire. It's only twominutes. The only required
questions are your name andemail. Don't get this don't
don't, you know, turn away fromit because of that.

(24:58):
And if you fill that out, it'lllead you to a fundraiser page,
which you can also access all ofit on SaveBeef.org, and we ask
you all right now to visitSaveBeef.org and drop your
emails. Now I'm sure a lot ofyou are like, okay. We love this

(25:18):
foundation. We love this, welove this philosophy, this new
model, but, hey, guys. Listen,ranchers.
We're here to buy some cleanbeef. Okay? So, you know, cut
all the cut all the philosophyand cybernetics talk and just
tell us where the beef is at.Okay? Welcome to beef.com.
You'll also drop your email inthere, and we will be in touch.

(25:41):
We have lots of specialshappening behind the scenes that
don't make it to, our mainwebsite and our main platforms.
So with that is the conclusionof my presentation here, and I
would like to pass it off toBrianna who is going to cover in

(26:09):
a little bit more detail, or atleast from the policy side of
things, what this one healthmodel is, right, and and how it
plays out in policy andpolitics.

Speaker 2 (26:22):
Thank you so much, June. I really appreciate it.
Thank you, everyone. I'm sograteful to be here and to
introduce, Texas Slim going intoour next portion. I'm going to
touch on some of the policiesvery quickly, address what we're
working on at the I'm Texas SlimFoundation in terms of policy,

(26:43):
what we've uncovered, and thenI'm going to introduce our
visionary, head honcho here,Texas Slim.
But, I apologize I'm not oncamera tonight. I am in the
process of actually, heading toour state capital here in South
Dakota to work on legislation.Very excited about it. We'll be

(27:04):
announcing that here shortly.We've already had some great
wins in the state of SouthDakota.
We've got some great wins,coming up here in the state of
Texas as well, creating somemodel legislation for everyone
to use and implement in theirown respective states as well.
And, so just touching off, I'veseen a couple of questions

(27:25):
coming up about RBSTs, which arerecombinant bovine growth,
hormones and various additives,right? And that's the beautiful
thing about being independentcattle ranchers. All of our
cattle ranchers, align with ourconcepts of self reliance and,
regeneration regenerativeranching. And in that, none of

(27:48):
our cattle ranchers use mRNAtechnology.
We, not that it's approved yetfor cattle. It is in in pork.
But even when it does comeonline for cattle, which we're
anticipating it most likelywill, none of our ranchers will
be using that. They've alreadyagreed. I apologize about that.

(28:09):
None of our none of our ranchersuse additives like bovir, for
example, or growth hormones. We,practice what we preach, and
that is, you know, growingbetter cattle through better fed
feed and using a holisticapproach, grazing, grass fed

(28:30):
beef, raising our cattle asclose to nature as possible, as
opposed to the One Health model.And that's really what I'm
hoping, to address here, whichis this concept that essentially
human beings are non non, whatis what is the word non animal

(28:51):
human or non animal non,they're, non human animals and
then they're human animalsessentially under the One Health
Initiative. And the One HealthInitiative was adopted by the
USDA, and also our Health andHuman Services many years ago,
but in truth, it's beenfinalized and formally funded

(29:15):
over the last four years. Andit's this concept that we no
longer need land in order tofarm and ranch, that essentially
we can go vertical, we can stackand pack animals and human
beings into, you know, tinylittle homes, tiny little, pens,
and that we can just sort ofsupplement what nature provides

(29:37):
with pharmaceutical products.
And it's a very inverse concept,but most concerningly, it really
centers around this sort of landgrab concept of the Convention
for Biological Diversity and theSustainable Development Goals of
the UN, both of which are quitehostile to The United States'

(29:58):
sovereignty. But I think what'smost concerning, for example,
the the convention of biologicaldiversity, is a plan that we
have seen since about 02/2004.It calls for a drastic reduction
in US farmlands and, areas thathumanity is allowed to access
essentially. And that is chairedby China, for example, and

(30:22):
hosted by Canada. Canada andChina are two of our largest,
agricultural land owners, Canadaowning, being the number one
foreign, owner of US ag lands,China has or owns about 1% of
our total ag lands.
But, you know, nonetheless, thisis this is very concerning,

(30:45):
especially as it was adopted,during the Biden administration
under what was called thefederal plan for equitable long
term recovery and resilience.This is a concept that due to
climate change, we will see anincrease in viruses and
diseases. And, so we just needto centralize more control to

(31:09):
the federal government, in termsof policy and authority. And
then we just need toconsolidate, you know, more of
the population into theseresilient, quote, unquote,
resilient cities. The problemwith this is that every time we
consolidate our herds, just likewhen we consolidate human with,

(31:31):
you know, higher rates of,infection.
Right? Viruses spread morequickly in densely populated
areas. So it's it's reallyantithetical even to the stated
goals of the one health agenda.But but again, like June was
saying, it's really this conceptthat we can find health in a

(31:52):
pill, or a shot, or some sort ofchemical additive. And really
what it does is it enriches thefew while making the rest very
ill.
So, you know, our our concept,our parallel economy within the
beef initiative is really tofocus on providing alternative
options and solutions. Firstthrough our beef maps, right,

(32:16):
which is this, comprehensivelist of ranchers across the
country that are excited to selldirectly to consumers, that want
to provide a better quality offood and some in in needs,
because being good land stewardsand about, raising the best

(32:41):
quality possible. And andfrankly, that has really been,
de incentivized under recentUSDA, rule changes. And in fact,
you know, on the policy side,we're, we're very hopeful that
Secretary of Agriculture,recently used his administrative

(33:04):
authority to alter some somepretty significant antitrust
laws that have been on the booksfor the last one hundred and
three years. But essentially,there's a rule change, that is
in the finalization process thatwould turn the Packers and
Stockyard Act, essentially thenumber one antitrust law within

(33:25):
the agricultural industry, itwould turn that into a consumer
protection law that wouldessentially create something of
a quota system, as opposed toprioritizing the best practices
and best quality of meatavailable, and unfortunately,
really incentivizes imports.

(33:46):
And as June pointed out we'realready an import dependent
nation, and you know, theconcern there is that our global
supply chain is quite volatile.For example just, you know, two
weeks ago the USDA, put anembargo on, imports from Mexico
because of new world screw worm,for example. Not long ago, we

(34:10):
had an embargo on Paraguay thatwas recently lifted We need, a
regional vaccine for hoof andmouth that was contaminated.
They ended up with a very severeoutbreak. And so we had an
embargo on Paragoy, and they'renot yet hoof and mouth disease
free, yet we've lifted thatembargo.

(34:31):
Point being here, our supplychain is exceptionally volatile.
And really, it's at the pointnow where our national, or
excuse me, our food security isa national security issue. So
our goal is to work with notonly state lawmakers, but also
the incoming Trumpadministration Secretary of

(34:54):
Agriculture Brooke, toincentivize growth on the
domestic side, we are reallyworking to increase our cattle
volumes, and not just quantity,but also quality. We want to
first and foremost secure yourguys's right as consumers to

(35:17):
access quality meat to know yourcow to shake your ranchers hand
to and to really take control ofyour own food security. That's
everything that we advocate for.
And so we're working towardspolicies that will help to
enable that consumer directpipeline with ease. So, if

(35:39):
anyone has any questions for mein terms of policy, I would be
happy to answer that, Doctor.Cat. Otherwise, I'm excited to
introduce Texas Slim.

Speaker 6 (35:51):
Hey, Nat. Good to see you. Thanks, Brianna. June, good
to be here again. We've donethis a couple of times.
It's been a long journey, but Ilike to kinda talk in,
visualizations of what I've seenover the years, kind of where I
come from. You know, coming fromthe Texas Panhandle, I like to
say I come from the dirt roadsof West Texas. Well, we drive a

(36:13):
lot of dirt roads. We see a lotof livestock. We, we look at the
sky a lot and, we're aroundagriculture, a lot of it.
But throughout my lifetime, I'mseeing agricultural change. And,
you know, within that, thatchange happened when I was
pretty young, and I had to,leave this small town of Texas,
which was a powerhouse as cattlecountry. And I had to go and,

(36:37):
find a life that, you know, Ididn't think I was gonna have to
find, but I became a researchanalyst out of Austin, and I had
a good career there. And it'sbeen about twenty five years,
but everything that I've everreally facilitated in this life
has been based on, you know,what we experienced, what my
grandfather pioneered, andobservational science of how our

(37:00):
food has changed, how our healthhas changed as a nation, how our
agricultural has changed, ourwater tables, our soil. And so
within my lifetime, I sawmassive change starting to
happen back in '18 and '19.
And so I hit the road and I'vebeen on the road for many years
now. But if you look from theperspective of driving across

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America and realizing that we'reunder attack in many ways that
our industries and our consumersdon't see because they don't get
in these dirt roads, in theseback roads, and a lot where
agricultural happens. And, butlike what June said, you can
leave any city and be in cattlecountry. And so, you know,
throughout the last fifty years,our food has changed. Our health

(37:44):
has changed.
Our commodity systems havechanged. Our money changed.
We've got off the gold standard.And so, systems have changed,
our money changed, we've got offthe gold standard. And so in
2020, I decided to embed myselfin a harvest company because I
needed to see what the industrylooked like from within.
I've been doing research afterthe Monsanto bear consolidation
back in 2017. I'd also saw aconsolidation in media, so I

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wanted to get boots on theground, and I started with, a
slogan called food intelligencebecause I think we forgot what
food is about. What I wasn'tplanning on was realizing and
seeing that America had become afood desert. And I noticed that
most small towns that have aDollar General, basically, they
might have access to a Walmartand they have a convenience

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store. And if you drive acrossAmerica and you get off the
interstates, you see this quiteeasily and often.
And so whenever we got up toNorth Dakota to do harvest, you
know, it started unfolding thatthe boys that I was working with
in my fifties, you know, andthey were young, you know, some
of them teenagers, some of them20s, some of them 30s, that we

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had a major shift in our healthand then basically understanding
what agriculture used to be andthe multinational system that
does not allow us to feed ourchildren anymore. And so you can
go through these bigagricultural regions of the
country and it's some of themost unhealthy people now
because they do not have marketaccess. And so what does that

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mean? It means that you knowwe're eating ultra processed
food, some of the best corn fedhealthy boys that we used to
brag about are now theunhealthiest Because if you look
at the inner cities and thedestruction of nutrition and
health in the inner cities, thathas now hit small town America.
And what we lost is marketaccess to our natural resources

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and our natural resources ofnutrition.
And so where I came from stateof Texas, we had two fifty four
counties. Well, we used to havetwo fifty four micro processing
centers that serviced all thesesmall towns in Texas, regionally
based, county based, where weactually had access to our local
livestock. It's as simple asthat. It's not always been that

(39:54):
grand of a picture, but we hadmore leverage and we've had a
slow consolidation andcentralization in our packers,
in our processing industries.And as June says, and it's in
our, presentation tonight, 85%of our, you know, livestock in
The United States Of America iscontrolled by four multinational

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corporations that are not housedin America.
That's alarming. Doctor. BrookMiller brought up and said, we,
our national security now isunder a threat because we don't
have access to our cattle. And,you know, if you look at the
numbers and you see what I'veseen on the ground within our
health, health of our children,health of our parents, health of

(40:36):
our soil, health of our watertables, the the health, the lack
of our money inflation. Andyou're you're seeing a massive
consolidation in centralization.
You're seeing assetreallocation, but you're also
seeing a shift in our health towhere, you know, when I went on
harvest, they're still toughboys, but they they don't eat

(40:56):
food. They eat pop tarts. Theyeat anything that's convenient.
And, you know, I went out there,outside of Mountmont, North
Dakota, and I was able to find arancher, USDA certified, and
this is still COVID going on,and they'd almost been shut down
by by COVID. And so I startedfeeding the crew, you know, and
the spirits changed.

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And it really made me startreally looking at food
intelligence of why are theyattacking the cow. And I knew it
because it's basically the mostnutritional animal on the planet
that we all can have access to.And it's not a debate about
being a carnivore, vegan,vegetarian. You have to have
cattle to have a proper foodsystem in your communities and

(41:39):
in your country. And so if youlook at being able to establish
market access that, is a form ofcommunity building And you look
at farmer's markets and wherewe've come from, you know, we've
turned farmer's markets intoarts and craft shows.
We don't have the rightcompetition. We've subsidized
our industry and pitted ourproducers against each other in

(42:03):
monetary means, brand identitymeans, technology use
agreements. And so you cancorrelate the loss of our
access, market access asproducers and consumers to
basically the lack of our healthnow, the health crisis that we
are in, and the dependency on,you know, multinational systems

(42:23):
that are foreign, foreigncountries that are now basically
they are, seriously consideringa one world food group just like
the one, you know, world health,you know, initiative. So if you
look at what has transpired andif you leave your city and you
drive 30 to 50 miles, you'regonna see the same thing. And so

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it's daunting.
It's scary. But one thing it is,it's a market gap that now the
beef initiative and thesavebeef.org campaign can really
move forward with because wehave a nation waking up that
they are now seeing what I'vebeen trying to visualize in a
lot of people's minds from thehealth, you know, industries to
the commodity commercial cattleindustry, you know, all of

(43:09):
livestock that's under attackfrom pork to poultry and how
they're shutting everythingdown. So if it's time for a
nation to kinda take a pause andlet's do some observational
science and realize that wedon't have to validate the
deceptions anymore. And that'swhat we've been able to prove
within the beef initiative andthe pioneer, founders that have

(43:31):
come into this. Everybody that'sin the initiative has this
insight that we are now thesolution, that the whole
nation's not gonna comestreaming into us, but we're
here to basically allow peopleto have market access to health
and the cleanest beef in thenation.
And that's building communitieswe're going to bring. And we
have brought liquidity back tocommunities across The United

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States. And right now with thishealth initiative, I first
started, I said, this is thegreat American health initiative
being led by the great Americanrancher. And now that we're
working with all these finedoctors, nutrition experts, I
think there's a goodconsolidation that everybody can
visualize what I saw on harvest,you know, our, our commodity

(44:16):
grains. I went on wheat harvestand most of our harvest was
canola, which is rapeseed.
And, you know, and I asked thesepeople, I said, what? What's
what's up in the seasons? Howare you planting? How are you,
you know, mapping out yourseasons of harvest? And, you
know, you find out within themultinational system of mono
cropping, you know, you're gonnahave somebody that plants the

(44:36):
seed, somebody that sprays theseed, somebody that fertilizes
the seed, somebody that harveststhe seed, somebody that comes
and takes the seed, and somebodythat ships the seed.
And none of that seed stays inthat local community. Nobody
really knows where it's going.You know, it's manipulation of
the market. It's a commodity.It's a world market now within
our food.
And so it's daunting, yes. Butone thing that we do know is

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that we can have, a wonderfulexperience, a lifestyle exchange
with other people that are likeminded and that we can start
saving our family farms, we canrebuild our soil, our health, we
can reeducate our children, wecan actually get children back
into livestock and agriculture.And, you know, that's why we've

(45:23):
created the the I am Texas SlimFoundation, the beef initiative,
beef maps. You know, we'vecreated a lot of autonomous
networks that are now comingtogether, and that is, of
course, the safebeef.orgcampaign. We have some amazing
opportunities in front of usright now.
We've never really marketed oradvertised it. You know, I
liquidated my life, and I'vebeen on the road for five years.

(45:45):
You know, it's 300,000 milesright now. I've been around the
globe one and a half times. I'vebeen across Australia, Asia.
We've got connections in Europe,of course, Africa now. And this
is a one world movement towardscreating a one world food group.
By saying that there's a lot ofcountries coming up. There's a
lot of basically independentminded, agricultural minded

(46:08):
people across this world thatwanna know what the beef
initiative is doing. They wantto take our protocols, our new
input systems, regenerativeinput systems, like our partner
better fed feeds, better fedfoods.
And so if you look at thepartnerships that we've created,
there's a consolidationcollaboration that's going after
this industry so we can actuallyreset the playing field, bring

(46:31):
liquidity to our producers, andgive consumers a chance to
change the consumer demand thatthey're looking to do right now
in The United States. You know,as I say, divorce the
supermarket, go shake a ranchershand, basically quit validating
the deceptions and perform a newform of food intelligence within
your community with youryourself first. And then what

(46:53):
you can do is you can have alifestyle that is now
empowering, and we're takingback access market access to our
health, our lands, our children,and because our children are
under attack. We all know this.And, us responsible adults have
to man up.
And I heard Jordan Peterson saythe other day. He said, great
nations fall because strong menrefuse to use their voice. Well,

(47:17):
I'm about to have a voice again,and I want everybody to come
along because, you know, we havesolutions. And if you just look
at one simple phrase,savebeef.org, and, you know, get
off the Internet, go shake arancher's hand, go look at this
country from a differentperspective. We're coming into a
digital world.
That's, never been prevy toagriculture, independent

(47:40):
sovereign, and we've built newsystems that give peer to peer
access with money, with consumerdemand. And actually, you know,
we can create media. We wealways say we're the real
Yellowstone. So let's get, let'sget some cowboy spirit with
SaveBeef.org, and, I'll probablyhand it back over to Brianna. I
think right now she's gonna takesome questions, and we'll go

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from there.
Thanks, Nat.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
Awesome. Thank you, Texas Slim. And, Jeff, I know
you're joining us for this part.I have lots of questions from
people. I would they were sentto my phone.
But before I go to theirquestions, let's talk about the
labeling of the meat at thestore because, I think we need
that cannot be stressed enough,and I heard you guys talk about

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this in spaces. What does itmean when I see, a label and I'm
buying meat at Costco or HEB,and it says USDA, whatever it
says inspected and stuff. Doesthat mean that my meat comes
from, United States that iscoming from a rancher in Texas
or Montana? What does it mean,guys?

Speaker 6 (48:47):
Good question. That's a yeah. Go you wanna take that.
Well, I'll I'll start it. Youyou wrap it up because we both
got something to say here.
But if you look at labeling, thedeception thereof, you know, we
go through all kinds of battlingof labeling. And we have, you
know, the battle of organic andwhat's not organic, grass fed,
grass finished. The only thingyou really need to really be

(49:08):
aware of right now is country oforigin labeling. And, you know,
we don't do that now. We'refighting to get it.
We have a plan that's going in.It's voluntarily. But if you
don't have basically on yourmeat where it's coming from,
then you're not gonna know whereit's coming from and what's in
it because there's so manydifferent rules and regulations.

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And if we're eating 85%, eighty% of our beef is coming from
four countries, they don't haveto follow the same regulations
that, you know, our labelinglaws in The United States does.
And so, you know, a lot ofpeople don't understand that,
you know, grass fed, grassfinished, organic, you know,
there's a lot of good ranchersproducers that follow the

(49:49):
protocols of there, but there'sa lot of corruption and
deception.
And And so if you don't knowwhere your beef is coming from,
you can guarantee that 80% ofthe beef that we're consuming in
The United States has come fromforeign countries and the lack
of labeling or the deceptionsthere on the labeling. If you
haven't done your marketresearch of what you need to be
looking at, you know, it's thebest thing. That's how I came up

(50:12):
with the phrase, go shake yourranchers hand, and they will
educate. They will basicallytell you, and they will they
will allow you to become yourown research analyst, and that's
what we need. And so I'll handit off to the best research
analyst in the industry toBrianna, you can, follow-up
there, Brianna.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
Yeah. Thanks. I appreciate it. Yeah. So we had a
mandatory country of originlabeling law that was repealed
in 2016.
Over the last four years, we'vereally seen a decline in
transparent labeling, from theFSIS, which is the Food Safety
Inspection Service. Two pointsI'll just make really quickly.

(50:52):
So we do have a country oforigin labeling law. However,
there's a caveat, which isanything that is substantially
altered in The United States isallowed to be stamped as USDA
certified and product of TheUnited States. So anything that
comes in from, out of country,whether it's frozen or it's

(51:12):
fresh, and it's substantiallyaltered in The United States is
then, you know, stamped as aproduct of The United States.
So you really the problem is wereally just don't know what is
in that package at the grocerystore, especially as we have, in
The United States, just fivemajor processing facilities that
are doing that are processing95% of our entire, meat supply

(51:38):
here domestically. And and sowhat that looks like, right,
what that translates to in termsof cattle is about 5,400 head
per day. And you might have likeJune was saying, you might have
a package of hamburger, onepound of hamburger that has, you
know, the genetics of 30 to ahundred different cows in there

(51:58):
because, like I said, they'reprocessing 5,400 cattle per day
in each one of these respectivefacilities. In terms of hogs,
they're doing about 1,200 headper hour at each one of these
facilities. And this is aproblem with the consolidation
of our food supply.
Just another quick point interms of FSIS and and really the

(52:20):
sort of lackadaisical,transparency that we've seen in
the last four years. You know,FSIS was supposed to come up
with a finalized rule for how tolabel, lab cultured, lab
cultivated meat, and and theywere supposed to have this done
in 2021, except for the factthat Upside Foods and Good

(52:43):
Meats, in in addition toCargill, JBS, Smithfield, all
the big players, essentiallythreatens the food safety
inspection service and said thatrequiring them to label lab
cultivated meat separate of anyother type of meat product would
be a violation of their firstamendment, and it would, quote,

(53:06):
hamper innovation and, quote,harm the livestock industry, end
quote. So we have some realproblems within our regulatory
apparatus in terms oftransparency and really,
regulatory burden that appliesequally across the board. We're

(53:26):
we're really seeing, favoritismand, a form of selectionism and
protectionism, that prioritizesthe largest corporations over
independent mom and pop cattleor or not just cattle, but, you
know, ranchers across the board.

Speaker 4 (53:44):
Thank you, Brianna. So there's lots of questions
about, specifically yourranchers, the ones that are on
your website. First

Speaker 6 (53:52):
of

Speaker 4 (53:53):
all, like, how does someone become a ranger that you
guys allow to be part of thisbeef initiative?

Speaker 3 (54:01):
That's easy. You, go right up to your browser. You
type in beef.support, and youdrop your email in. We're all
about getting emails dropped.It's the easiest way for us to
communicate with people.
Ranch mama Shannon from EbersoleCattle Company who, is our

(54:21):
liaison, I guess you could say,between the ranchers and and all
of us in our systems. She isalso pioneering along with,
Buffalo Ron, the newbuffmaps,uh,uh,.com. So we'll
we'll have Buffalo on there heresoon enough. But if you're a

(54:41):
rancher and you'd like to getinvolved with the beef
initiative, the simplest thingto do would be go to go to your
address bar, type inbeef.support. That's a URL.
It's a little bit different.But, drop your email, and then
we'll be in touch very, verysoon. You can also reach out to
me directly, June at beefinitiative dot com. And if

(55:04):
you're on x, give us a follow.It's beef initiative.
Let us know you're out there.We'll put you in touch with
ranch mama. She truly is theranch mama. This is a movement
made up of ranchers. I am theonly guy here that did not come
from agriculture.
I don't know how I ended uphere. Blame that guy. Texas
Slim. So, yeah, it's it's prettysimple. Beef.support or hit us

(55:30):
up on x beef initiative.

Speaker 4 (55:32):
Great. And the follow-up question is, talk
about the vaccines that are inthe beef products that your
rangers, have. So do yourrangers use vaccines?

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Concerns there? Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
I'll I'll I can take this one, June, if you want.
Yep. Okay. Yeah. So this is partof our onboarding process, and
and one of the questions that weask is to rule out any ranchers
that would use mRNA, technologyor the it's really a platform.
It's the mRNA platform. Andright now, it's specific to
HOGs. It's approved for HOGsthrough, Sequivity, which is

(56:16):
Merck Animal Health. And I Iwon't I won't bore you with the
details of how the whole thingworks, but essentially, it is it
is becoming more ubiquitousacross the hog industry, and
we're starting to see the resultof that in in in the meat supply
in our grocery stores, and it'snot it's not pretty. I don't

(56:37):
know.
I've I've seen some prettyconcerning things lately.
Anyways, again, so in terms ofthe cattle industry, we do not
have an mRNA, approved vaccinein the cattle industry. However,
if it were to become approved,all of our ranchers have
explicitly said that they willnot use it. In addition to that,

(56:57):
most of our ranchers are I I'mnot gonna say anti vaccine, but
most of our ranchers try andsteer clear of of having to give
I haven't vaccinated my herd,ever. But just I have I have,
you know, cows that I that I've,raised as bottle fed calves.

(57:18):
We do a worming regimens, andother than that, our cows are
out on fresh grass, year round,fresh hay when the ground is
frozen, and they're on a betterI mean, we've really focused on
better inputs and our cows don'tget sick. They just don't they
don't. We prioritize in ourprogram, better genetics. We

(57:43):
prioritize, you know, goodquarantine practices if someone
should get sick for some reason,which we had, like I said, we
haven't had one. But, you know,there is there is wisdom and a
very, there's very solidevidence for reintroducing, any

(58:07):
animal that has become immune towhatever it is you're dealing
with back into the herd.
And so, our ranchers prioritizethese natural practices as
opposed to, you know, massvaccinations or additives of any
sort. I'm not going to say thatour ranchers don't, you know,
give regular traditional type ofvaccines, but mainly the and

(58:31):
those vaccines do not transferto humans, from any of the
evidence that we've seen. So,the main concern is the mRNA.
And from what we understand fromthe veterinarians that we've
spoken with, that mRNAtechnology has the potential to
transfer during, essentiallyhandling. So, if you're handling

(58:54):
raw meat, that mRNA technologycould potentially, get into your
body or your system, and if youdon't cook it, you know, well
enough, for example.
So, yeah. Hopefully, thatanswers your question. June, if
you have anything to add on tothat.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
Yeah. You know, I was just really gonna say we get
this question all the time, ofcourse, as we're sure you know.
And I think the easiest responsethe simplest response to that is
go to beefmaps.com, click on amarker, visit their website. We
are not middlemen trying to makea dollar off of every stake
because these ranchers are notsurviving. Right?

(59:35):
We're just linking you to yourhome computer to your rancher's
home computer. So simple. Andwhat you do once you once you
click on that link is ask themyourself. Visit their website.
They're gonna have a lot ofinformation there, and the best
way to get to know your rancherand whether or not they
vaccinate or or whatever theirinput protocols are is to just

(59:59):
ask them with humbleness andsincerity.
Don't try to challenge them, andyou know more than they do. And,
guys, this is a serious problem.Rancher suicides, farmer
suicides have skyrocketed. Wehave sixty seven years left
until we lose the fat lastfamily farm. Do you really want

(01:00:20):
one of your last interactions tobe do y'all are y'all grass fed?
Right? There's a lot of waysthat we can raise a cow, and a
lot of them are right. Some ofthem are wrong. A couple of them
are wrong, and those are theones that dominate. Right?
But a great majority of the waythat people raise cattle come
on. We're humans. We've beendoing this for thousands of

(01:00:41):
years. There's a lot ofdifferent input protocols. I've
seen a cow literally eat acactus.
So there you go.

Speaker 4 (01:00:52):
Thank you, June. So there were lots of questions
about ordering, from farmers andstuff, and I just wanna give my
testimony. I actually, did itmyself several times, and it's
really easy. I chose who Iwanted to be my rancher. I

(01:01:12):
actually chose Texas Slim thefirst time around, and it was
delivered to my home.
The meat was absolutely amazing.The prices were great, and it
was really convenient. So I knowthere were lots of questions
about that. I do wanna bring upthat Montana has a bill called
HB four one eight that's gonnabe heard February 20, and it's

(01:01:35):
about banning mRNA gene basedvaccine in animals in a state of
Montana. And I know BrookeMiller, who is part of beef
initiative, also fellow of theof the IMA, is, one of the
doctors helping with thisinitiative.
And Brianna recently testifiedin, I believe, South Dakota on a
bill that had to do withsynthetic meat and synthetic

(01:02:00):
protein. So I know you guys aredoing some amazing work all
over, The United Statesspecifically not to allow the
mRNA platform in the beefindustry. And like you said,
it's prevalent in pork, but inbeef, I believe in they're start
starting to do some trials. Soit's not out there yet, but they

(01:02:22):
are trying to do it. So it'sreally important the work that
you guys are doing.
So we are towards the endbecause, we had a lot to talk
about. But one thing I want youto text us, Slim, and maybe,
Jeff, you as well, touch alittle bit on this bird flu
scare, from your perspective. Iknow we discussed it actually
last week at VSRF. And, but whatare you guys seeing with the

(01:02:45):
Rangers? And I I know, like, wehave spoken a little bit about
the testing they're using andthe fact they're using PCR
again, and, essentially, you canfind things positive if you
really go after it.
But I think one thing that mostpeople will agree with is what
they do when they find it is notreally something that we should
be doing because they're callinglots of, poultry. But what's

(01:03:09):
happening on the beef side?

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
I'll start off and kinda hand it off to Jeff.
That's how we were gonna do itin the first place. You know, I
talked with a lot of ranchers.We have a lot of independent.
You have a lot of, you know,different type of ways that, you
know, you, do your cattle.
As far as, you know, the birdflu, we've seen this stuff
before. We watch it veryclosely. I think there's a lot
in the media right now about,you know, how it's being

(01:03:35):
facilitated and, you know, theall the stories out there. You
know, there's the mallard ducknow and how it's transmitting
into dairy cattle. And, youknow, they're trying to force a
narrative here.
And if you see what they did inCOVID, you know, they're not
having much luck on our side asproducers. You know, Justin
Trammell was the first rancherthat I shook hands with back

(01:03:56):
here in my hometown. And he's avery precondent. He's in Austin,
Texas right now doinglegislation. So we gotta give us
credit there because we have allthis policy work, but we're
doing it in Texas too.
But what we see is, we'reindependent and sovereign and we
don't put up with deceptions asmuch as the media likes to let

(01:04:17):
onto. I'm not that nervous, Ihaven't heard anybody be that
nervous about it but it's nevergonna stop. Let's be honest
about this. If it's bird flunow, they're gonna come at us in
any which way. I mean they do itwith vaccinations.
Think about the pharmaceuticalindustries. We have humans, we
have livestock. You thinkthey're going to waste any time

(01:04:37):
doing the same protocols as theydo on humans as they do in
livestock. And then the way thatwe house livestock is how
they're trying to house humansin these smart cities and the
consolidation you know, and geteverybody off the land. And so
what we need to do is worktogether, communicate with your
producers.
That's the best thing that youcan do. If you really go out

(01:04:58):
there and shake a rancher's handand through digital, you know,
shaking the hand through beefnaps, Think about this. Think
about the relationship that youcan build. Maybe you're somebody
that needs community projectsand a rancher could help. You
find so much food intelligence,beef intelligence, and health
intelligence just establishingone relationship with somebody

(01:05:19):
that's in agriculture right now.
That is your biggest weapon tobe educated and to be informed.
It's very empowering for bothsides. And so I can generalize
about what's going on with birdflu, But the best thing to do is
really, you know, make it acommunity based fact finding
mission. And that spreads out.That creates nodes of
conversation.

(01:05:39):
And that's the best way to dothis because this is what we're
doing. We're inverting a systemof communications and basically
research, reconnaissance.Everybody can be involved with
this. I'm one man that startedand, you know, every person
that's listening to this canfollow the same protocols that
all of our leaders are now, youyou know, talking about tonight.
So we're here to help.
We're here to serve. We're hereto educate. We're not here to

(01:06:02):
parrot, you know, all the fearporn on on the Internet. So
that's a long, answer, but Iwould love to hand it off to
Jeff Forrester. He's been withus recently, and he's a he's a
he's a hell of a, communityleader.
He has a lot of worldlyexperience, and so, you know,
I'm very proud to announce JeffForrester. Thanks, Jeff.

Speaker 7 (01:06:24):
Texas Slim, thank you very much. So, doctor Cat, I
think you were asking about birdflu and the way bird flu is
affecting what's going on in inour agricultural centers. And I
think as we look at things, Ithink, Brianna pointed out, you
know, we've forced agricultureinto smaller blocks. We've got
more concentrated animals inareas that are smaller. So

(01:06:46):
you've got more herds of cattlecrammed into small buildings.
You've got, the chicken coopsnow are small and they're
overpopulated. So just likeduring COVID, when Texas Lynn
was talking about, when oneperson gets sick or when one
animal gets sick, it can spreadthrough a herd or spread through
a flock very quickly. I thinkone of the answers to this

(01:07:06):
though is prevalent throughoutour entire discussion, and that
is buy local. I've for years inthe food industry, we've used
the term from farm to fork.Well, it's hard to say from farm
to fork when 85% of the productsare coming from outside of our
country.
That's from whose farm and towhose fork. So I think one thing

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that we should really payattention to is how we can
become our own advocate, notonly for health care, but for
quality beef products. And oneway to do that is join us and
become a partner with us atsavebeef.org. Like June said
earlier, it's about a two minutelittle fill in the blank
questionnaire. Drop your name.

(01:07:47):
Drop your email. Get in touchwith us, ask questions, get
educated, find ranchers nearyou, find sources near you so
that you can come up with yourown solutions. Nutrition is what
fuels our body. Our bodies are ahealth machine. It is a what you
put in is what you get out.
And we know that through thefeeding of animals. Human beings

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are the exact same. So if wegive quality feed to the animals
and our ranchers are feedingtheir animals with quality feed,
you're gonna go quality product.Quality product consume means
quality health. So, again, Ican't I can't ask enough for for
folks to go to savebeef.org, andthen I've have seen a few of the
questions roll through.
Where do I buy beef? Where do Iget the beef? You can get the

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beef at welcometobeef.org. Iknow we've got some
international folks that havejoined us this evening. We're on
a mission not only to do this inThe United States, but carry
this outside the borders of TheUnited States and ensure that we
are helping to save lives aroundthe world, not just here in our
own country.
So, doctor Catt, it's been greatbeing with you this evening, and

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I can't thank you enough for thetime you've given me. Texas
Slim, June, Brianna, thank youso much for everything you've
had to say, and thank you folksfor the questions. They were
awesome.

Speaker 4 (01:09:03):
Thank you. Thank you all for joining us. But before
you go, I do have one lastquestion. Autumn is gonna be mad
at me, but I I love this story,Texas Slim. Your foundation I I
read this story a few monthsago.
You donated or you awarded, Idon't know, money to a young,

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lady in Florida because shewanted to, take care of I'm, you
know, I'm not very good withthese terms. But you carry the
story because, I'm here in Texasas well in a small town, and FFA
is big here. I remember going tomy first, auction, and I was

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afraid to raise my paddlebecause it was going so fast,
but I did buy, one of the pigsfrom one of the kids, and it was
a great experience to see howhard these kids work. So share
your story really quick becauseI think it's important to Sure.
Story about young girl thatwanted to be a ranger.

Speaker 6 (01:10:02):
Yeah. It's it's Emily, and she's in small town
Florida. And she's she's neverbeen in agriculture or anything.
And she's in FFA. And, you know,most of, kids in smart town, you
know, America have a chance todo FFA, four h, and everything.
Cole Bolton, he used to be aofficer at FFA, still is.
Natalie Meeks of Catamafia, youknow, we're we've teamed up, and

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she's a educator within FFA.Emily, basically, she needed to
raise funds for her, secondsteer, and she started with the
heifer, I believe. But she wasbeing very ambitious, and she
was being very intentional. Andso she got on the Internet.
She started searching forsomebody that she could call up
and say, hey, I'm here inFlorida. My name is Emily, and

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I'm raising this money. It's myproject is what she called it.
She did a Google search, and shefound I don't know how she did
it, but she found the beefinitiative, and she found my
email. And sure enough, shewrote me about a four page
paragraph or a four pagebasically summary of what she
was doing.
And so within, you know, thirtyminutes, I was talking to Emily

(01:11:08):
on the phone and I was justlike, tell me your story, Emily.
Let me hear your story about whoyou are, where do you live, what
do your parents think about whatyou're doing? And so we had a
great introduction to a younggirl that is extremely valuable
to the next generation ofranchers. You know, she's this
first generational mindset.She's not jaded with how bad

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things are.
And I think she's now in herfourth or fifth. She visited us
to Nashville. She brought herparents or her father came.
They, they helped us pull offthe cattleman's feast that we
did at the Bitcoin conferencethis year. And so, you know, we
have all these people startingto reach out.
So the foundation is there tomirror everything that I knew
growing up, but not in such acentralized association way, but

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it's truly peer to peer that wecan help families, communities.
And now Emily gets this grantthat we've given her. Well, it's
gonna be in her name forever.And every year, we're gonna give
a grant in Emily's name of firstgenerational you know, anybody
that's doing livestock throughFFA to have a chance at this.
And Emily gets to write, youknow, the curriculum.
You know, we got her someinputs. And so she's becoming an

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educator now, and it's a greatrelationship that we've formed.

Speaker 4 (01:12:19):
I I love that because a lot of kids here, especially
in my town, they actually getgreat scholarships to
universities.

Speaker 6 (01:12:26):
Yes.

Speaker 4 (01:12:26):
To to get their degrees in agriculture or
different things. It's wonderfulto see that story. And last one,
Autumn, I promise. Someoneasked, how do they donate to
your foundation? And I want youto plug that in for those who
wanna donate, and then we'll goto Autumn.

Speaker 7 (01:12:41):
And I'll take this if you don't mind, gentlemen.

Speaker 6 (01:12:43):
Yes. Please do.

Speaker 7 (01:12:44):
Yeah. If you if you'd like to join us and partner with
us in a monetary way, again,please visit savebeef.org, and
there are two prompts therewhere you can make your donation
through standard currency or youcan make your donation through
Bitcoin. So if you'll do that,fill out the form. We would love
to get in touch with you, speakwith you. If you have questions,

(01:13:05):
that's what we're here tofacilitate.
So please and, again, if you'dlike to join us and partner with
us, savebeef.org. Thank you.

Speaker 4 (01:13:14):
Thank you all. Thank you, Brianna, and thank you,
gentlemen, for joining ustonight. I'm sure we're gonna do
this again.

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
It was a lot

Speaker 3 (01:13:21):
of fun. Thank you guys so much.

Speaker 2 (01:13:24):
Thank you, doctor Cat, and thank you everyone for
tuning in.

Speaker 6 (01:13:27):
Appreciate y'all. I like to say yeehaw. You guys,
let's get this, new cattle drivegoing. Appreciate y'all.

Speaker 4 (01:13:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (01:13:36):
Well, that was an awesome show. I will quickly
move on to our closingannouncements just because we
are short on time. Okay. So incase you haven't heard the
exciting news, early birdtickets for our conference in
Atlanta, Georgia, on April arenow available. While we're still
finalizing our speaker lineupand narrowing down a tentative

(01:13:58):
agenda, you can secure yourtickets today by visiting our
website.
The link is on screen. Thisweek, we are excited to be
formally announcing nine newsenior fellows who have
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They bring a range ofspecialties, and we are thrilled
to have them all on board. A newguide that we are excited to

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Lastly, we hope that you willjoin us next week as doctor Paul

(01:15:02):
Merrick, doctor Joseph Farrone,and doctor Chris Martinson make
an exciting IMA announcement andexplore the question, is the
science ever truly settled andmuch, much more. Alright.
Thank you all so much forjoining us tonight. We hope that
you enjoyed tonight's show, andwe will be closing with a my
story from Corey Bignell. Good

Speaker 9 (01:15:32):
night. My name is Corey Bignell. I am a former
Canadian nurse of fifteen years.In 2021, I made a very difficult
decision to not take theCOVID-nineteen vaccine that was
mandated in my hospital inKitchener, Ontario. I was a
single mom, and I had twochildren.

(01:15:52):
And not taking the vaccine meantthat I had to, I had no
financial income because I waslosing my job. And so, Grand
River Hospital placed me onunpaid leave October twelfth of
twenty twenty one, and I madethe decision to, sell my home.
And, it was my forever home, mygrandma's home. And it was a

(01:16:15):
very difficult decision becauseI thought I was going to live
there for the rest of my life.And I left Canada on 11/23/2021
with my son who was 13 at thetime.
My daughter was 30, so shestayed with her, with her
boyfriend. And, we traveled toNicaragua, and, this is where I

(01:16:39):
am now. And one of the stories Ialways like to tell when I'm on
a podcast is, in 2020, there wasno mask mandates until, June
July 2020. But every every lunchhour, I would walk down to
Starbucks, and I was a frontlinehero for that whole time,
frontline hero. I'd wear myscrubs, and Starbucks staff

(01:17:01):
would call me a hero.
The mask mandates came in atmidnight. I think it was July 20
or something. And the daybefore, I went to the Starbucks
with no mask on. The next day,the mandates were implemented at
midnight. I went into the sameStarbucks with the same staff,
and they actually yelled at me.
They said I couldn't come inwithout a mask. And that was

(01:17:24):
kind of an moment for me. Itwasn't that she was mad at me.
She was listening to the TVtelling her that anyone that
comes into your establishmentwithout a mask on is actually a
villain, and they're unsafe, andthey're gonna kill your
grandmother. I have quite alarge following on Instagram,

(01:17:47):
and they're almost daily.
Many of my followers reach outto me with either vaccine
injuries with themselves orfamily members. And so the FLCC,
I believe in their protocol, andso I am almost sending that out
daily to people. It's their it'smy go to, link. I think that

(01:18:12):
protocol is is is perfect.