We are as healthy as what we eat, eats I Konagh Garrett, Lincoln University
The father of modern medicine, Hippocrates, 2,500 years ago said ‘we are what we eat' and Lincoln University in 2021 researchers are continuing to prove his adage that for food to be thy medicine we need to give our animals more choice in what they are eating.
Increasing societal demand for our products to come from happy and healthy animals may lead to more selective multi-species feeding of livestock that Lincoln University research shows can provide a more ethical story, more environmental benefits and nutrient-dense red meat from humans.
One of this week’s Sarah’s Country’s Change Maker, Lincoln University Pastoral Livestock Production Lab PhD candidate, Konagh Garrett explains their team’s research:
To read the research “How Dietary Diversity Enhances Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being in Grazing Ruminants”: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2020.00191/full
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