Think like a chicken

Reginaldo Haslett Marroquín of the Main Street Project in Northfield, Minnesota, talks about a new model for  a healthy and regenerative poultry industry -- and how it can be accomplished with modest investments of land and capital. One of the main challenges of envisioning a healthy food system is how it can work at a large scale, and not just for niche markets. Here you'll hear how it can be done -- and how this model can also provide a model for other types of meat production that's healthy for land, workers, and consumers. Main Street Project Website: mainstreetproject.org IG: @main_street_project FB: Main Street Project T: @main_street Quivira Coalition Website: quiviracoalition.org  IG: @quiviracoalition FB: Quivira Coalition T: QuiviraAgRanch   Show notes: 0:09 Engaging food issues and low wage workers 1:46 Designing for low wage workers means non-discrimination for all 4:37 Livestock is central to regenerating land 5:33 Guatemala and indigenous practices 6:25 Managing energy is the basis of food production 7:09 Regenerative poultry means thinking like a chicken 10:17 Extra meat on industrial broilers costs society 12:22 Day in the life of a chicken 14:51 Down to the the dirt -- the chicken ecosystem 20:31 Poultry-Centered Regenerative Agriculture 20:40 Eliminating unnecessary work 24:58 Returning energy to the system and the ecosystem 26:35 Regenerative agriculture at scale 28:59 Replicating and perpetuating the work around the world 32:34 Regenerative agricultural alliance 34:41 Practicalities of regenerative poultry systems 45:14 Transform the poultry industry, transform other food industries 48:53 The Mainstreet Project