Joe Rogan Experience #1893 - Will Harris

Will Harris is a fourth-generation cattleman and farmer. He's the owner of White Oak Pastures: a family farm utilizing regenerative agriculture and humane animal husbandry practices. www.whiteoakpastures.com

Will HarrisguestJoe Roganhost

Jun 27, 20242h 26mWatch on YouTube ↗

EPISODE INFO

Released: June 27, 2024
Duration: 2h 26m
Channel: The Joe Rogan Experience
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Will Harris is a fourth-generation cattleman and farmer. He's the owner of White Oak Pastures: a family farm utilizing regenerative agriculture and humane animal husbandry practices. www.whiteoakpastures.com

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Will Harris
guest
Joe Rogan
host

EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, featuring Will Harris and Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan Experience #1893 - Will Harris explores regenerative rancher challenges factory farming, technocrats, and greenwashing myths Fourth-generation Georgia cattleman Will Harris explains his 25‑year transition from industrial, chemical‑intensive ranching to regenerative, multi‑species, zero‑waste agriculture at White Oak Pastures. He details how industrial farming’s fertilizers, pesticides, monocrops, and confinement livestock break natural cycles, degrade soil, pollute water, impoverish rural communities, and externalize huge environmental and health costs. Harris argues that properly managed ruminants on pasture can *sequester* carbon and restore land, directly countering mainstream claims that cattle are inherently bad for the climate. He critiques technocratic solutions (like carbon capture machines), corporate greenwashing (e.g., Whole Foods’ meat “step” ratings), and consolidation of farmland by figures like Bill Gates, insisting that lasting change will only come from informed consumer demand and decentralized, locally rooted farms.

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