 Question is from Pure Warrior 247. What's the difference between grass-fed meat and wild game meat? Nothing. Well, thanks. Well, I mean, there's a lot different. There's a big difference between grass-fed and grain, or wild and grain, but grass-fed and wild is pretty much the same thing. Well, here's the reason why it's different. They move a lot? Because grass-fed meat that you buy, that you, like for example, butcher box delivers to your door, it's grass-fed beef. There isn't wild. Is there wild cows that you can get? That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. They get eaten by wolves, I would think. You imagine a cow in the wild? What a terrible animal. Name a single, name one animal that you could buy, grass-fed, or you could buy wild. Pig. Yeah. Okay, that's a good point. Did you guys know if you take... It turns into a harry hog. It does, did you know that? Did you know if you took a domestic... And they're crazy right now in Texas. You guys know this? You can actually fly a helicopter and shoot them with assault rifles. It's legal. You can also do it out of a hot air balloon. They let you do it out of a hot air balloon now. Is this all real? The true story. Yeah, dude. Because they have so many feral hogs. So why haven't we done this? I don't know, it sounds like an adventure to me. Why haven't we done this? Yeah, would you not want to do that? Have you ever gone hunting? I have. But not like a semi-automatic gun after pigs. I mean, it's a little... That sounds a lot of fun. It's a little crazy, but... Maybe we start with the rats first. Start with your automatic... Start small, we'll get the... Yeah, we'll work our way out. No, yeah, if you take a domestic pig and you put it out in the wild, it turns feral. Like the switch turns on and it actually becomes a crazy fucking... Like a boar almost. Okay, so besides... Those tusks and all that. So besides the hog, what else animal could be grass-fed or wild? Oh, that we eat both? Yeah, that we eat both. We don't really. It's normally... You're normally comparing grass-fed to grain or wild to grain, right? Yeah, so here's the thing with wild game meat. And I guess bison would be the closest to beef, right? Bison is wild. And that would be about as close as you can get to cow, at least. In fact, if you eat bison, it almost tastes the same. But wild meat has just got a healthier fatty acid profile. It's more nutrient-dense, flavor-wise. You guys have heard the term something-taste-gaming. There's a flavor that natural... I'm using the word natural, but I think you guys know what I'm talking about. There's a flavor that natural wild meat has that domesticated grain-fed meat doesn't have. Oh, there's a clear distinction between grain and wild or grain and grass. But I... And maybe there is... Again, I don't have an example of a meat that I've had that I've had wild and I've also had only grass-fed. Because I think grass-fed has a different taste in comparison to grain-fed meat. It's a little bit... It's like in between... It's not straight, it's not gaming, like you're eating venison, but it's not purely like the grain-fed beef. It's just a hint of the gaminess. Yeah, like venison and elk, like I've had that before. And I like the taste. It's definitely way different than any kind of a livestock animal. It's got a little bit of that... Well, you have to explain for people to understand because this was like... I remember the first time I fully understood this. And I didn't... This was until maybe six years ago, maybe five, six years ago when I started looking for more grass-fed is I didn't understand what that meant that it changed the fatty acid profile and why that was important to you. Because when you talk about somebody who is trying not to, you know, is fighting inflammation or you're trying to get healthier fats in your diet, it's kind of canceled out when you go and you get like grain-fed beef. A little bit, like if you eat meat every once in a great while, it's not gonna make a difference. You know what I mean? If you eat one steak or burger patty or whatever once a week or less, it's probably not gonna make that huge of a difference. Now, there's an argument that says that you will see a difference over time. So let's say you eat red meat once a week, but you do it for 20 years or 30 years, then yeah, there may be this kind of cumulative effect, but especially if you eat a lot of meat. Like if you're like me, I eat red meat five to seven days a week, at least five to seven days a week. Some week, I go for weeks on end for seven days a week. And natural meats or wild or grass-fed meat, it has to, it's supposed to have a balance fatty acid profile of six, three and nine. It's got a better, much better, much more balanced fatty acid profile. And it makes a difference when, it makes a big difference when you're consuming a lot of it. It's higher in CLA. CLA is a fatty acid that, I mean, bodybuilders have supplemented with CLA for like two decades. CLA is what they would refer to as the fat, burning fat. And they find that diets that are higher in it when the calories are equal, that they tend to be leaner and have more muscle. So this is why bodybuilders were supplemented. It doesn't work that way though. You don't just add CLA to your diet and get the effects. You have to replace other fatty acids with it. Well, I told you, I remember reading an article a few years back that they actually compete with each other in the cell. So if, and I'll just use round numbers for the average person to kind of get this concept that if your cell could only hold a hundred fatty acid profiles in it, right? And they're made up of six, three and nine are getting in there and- You can't just throw more of something else on it. Right. And actually six and nine will outdo or outperform the three. So if you're getting like, if you're getting 75 and 75, you'll get all 75 of the six and nine and then you'll only get 25 of the three. I failed math, that was bad. So I know that's not the most scientific way to explain it, but for the average listener to get an idea of the importance of that. And we know how important omega-3s are. And that is something that we're always trying to search for most people and almost everybody gets recommended that supplement. It's rare that people are getting enough omega-3 in their diet. And so when you're eating a meat that should already naturally have it in that. Yeah, that would be great except for if you're always eating meat that is grain fed all the time. You're actually, the profile's changed. It's higher on the six and nine's lower on the threes. So you're getting an abundance of the six and nine's which are not ideal and you're getting less of the threes which is more ideal. Balance is ideal. It's too much of one, not enough of another is not a good idea, especially when you're talking about six and nine's. And some people, there are segments of the population that are very sensitive to this. So if they eat a lot of red meat that's grain fed, they'll see that their lipid profiles go crazy. And this is why when they reduce their red meat consumption, their lipid profiles look better. I would surmise that a lot of these people rather than having to eliminate red meat. Switch to grass fed. Switch to grass fed. I've seen this in clients before. Have you? Yes. And they'll get a better fatty acid profile. They'll get a better lipid profile. Same thing for people that feel like, you know, inflammation or they feel bloated from eating meat a lot of times. And I find out that they're eating all grain fed meat and then have them try grass fed, you know, or switch over to like a bison or something. I notice a big difference. That's my, that's for me. So if I eat a lot of grain fed beef, let's say I'm trying to gain size. And so I'm adding a lot of meat into my diet because the calories and all that stuff. I do notice an increase in inflammation. When it's grass fed, I don't. This is my own personal experience. And that inflammation contributes to worse gut health for me at least. So I digest grass fed meat better when I'm eating high quantities. They're also higher in key micronutrients. Now again, it's not this dramatic massive difference, but it's enough of a difference to where, again, if you consume a lot of red meat, if you consume it all the time, it will definitely make a difference for you to consume that meat as a high quality grass fed. Yeah, I assume that like even just having the chicken's graze around my property and everything. And in terms of like the color and what the yolk looks like and how rich it feels like the micronutrients are in comparison to something that was store bought. To me, it just, I mean, there's little things like that if you start to kind of like put two and two together with like an animal that's out there like working for their food and getting it from like so many varied sources, like how much more diverse that would be nutrient-wise. Yeah, now eating, always eating wild game meat is probably, for everybody's probably not possible. Yeah, it's not realistic. Because there's too many people and we would make animals instinctive. We can't all like, yeah. If we wanted to move in that direction, that wouldn't work out very well. No, we just have too many people. But factory farming with the feeding these animals grain all the time is not awesome. It's like the processed version of beef. Like these animals are cramped, they're standing in their own poop, they're just eating grain. And when you have an unhealthy animal the meat is just not, it's not as healthy. So it makes sense that you're not gonna be as healthy eating that kind of meat. Grass fed, now don't get me wrong, you could probably construct a factory farming model that looks identical to the grain fed model and throw grass at these animals. But oftentimes the way that they feed these cows is they roam, they eat foods that's more natural to their body and so it's also more humane. It's also better for the environment. And they're good for the environment. They produce, they produce less methane when they eat grass versus when they eat, I think that's the gas that cows produce than when they produce, when they eat grain. So it's like if you eat a particular type of food that makes you gassy, grain fed beef is more gassy. So they produce more of those byproducts. It's also better for the environment in terms of the ecology and the way that they're, they have to take care of the land so that it's producing quality grass that the animals can eat. It's just better all the way around. And it is more expensive if you go to the store, but we live in a pretty wealthy society and I don't know of a better place to invest money than in your health. I really don't. There's almost nothing you'll get better return on. It's really not that more expensive when you go through someone like ButcherBox. That's one of the reasons why, and I know you referenced them that I think it's amazing what they do because when you look at what you're getting by having it shipped to your house and I know that grass fed is typically more expensive, it's really not that more expensive than me going down to the butcher and actually getting the meat there. Oh yeah, well, I mean, we'll probably cover this in more detail down the road, but like how they got started was what I basically was doing with my wife, we would go in on a cow together with a couple of families and buy straight from the source or like from a 4-H group that they raised it all humanely and went through that whole process and it was great. Especially when you guys factor in the things that they always do, did you see what they're doing this month, what they're giving away? No. You know how every month they always have some cool, like special for someone who gets on their subscription base? This month is a turkey, dude. A whole turkey? Oh yeah, I did see that. It's a whole turkey, right Doug? I'm so doing this. Yeah, 10 to 14 pound turkey. Free. Yeah. Free for when you sign up with them. Yes. Oh, well Thanksgiving's coming up. That makes sense. No, I know. Isn't that cool? Wow, that's a great, yeah. If you factor in all the free shit that they give away every month, you're actually saving money with someone like them.