It would be no exaggeration to say that White Oak Pastures changed my life — my life as a meat eater, anyway.
Eating meat presented me with a conundrum. I couldn’t ignore the connection between the meat on my plate and the living animal it had once been. And the more I learned about factory farming of animals, the less I wanted to eat them.
I tried being a vegetarian, but couldn’t overcome my cravings for grilled hamburgers or fried chicken.
Then I heard Jenni Harris, fifth generation of the Harris family to farm White Oak Pastures near Bluffton, Georgia say, “That cow didn’t die so you could eat just the tenderloin.”
The farm is now one of the most successful in the country by taking original ideas from across the globe and making them work together in southwest Georgia.
Moving from a cattle farm to a multi-species operation meant going from three minimum wage employees to an operation with more than 120 on staff.
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