Episode 17: Das Sheep
Introducing America's most underappreciated animal...
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Show Notes
The average American ate around 5 pounds of lamb as late as the 1960's. Now the average American eats less than 1 pound of it.
Concurrently, there used to be herds of 40-50 million sheep in the US prior to WW2. In 2019, there were around 5 million.
Sheep are honestly my favorite animal on the farm. They love eating anything with deep taproots, which provides them with nutrients from deep soil sub-layers. This makes their bones incredibly good to boost your immune system in the form of a bone broth.
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