The Life Generating Force of Animal Foods – Niti Bali
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Food shapes more than health markers or body composition. It shapes development, resilience, and the ability to recover when life takes a hard turn. When the food system breaks down, families often feel it first. Confusion sets in. Trust erodes. And people are left trying to make sense of why doing everything “right” still leads to crisis.
In this episode, Tristan Haggard sits down with Niti Bali, author of Farm to Fork Meat Riot, to unpack how food, medicine, and modern systems collide. Niti shares a deeply personal story that forced her to question mainstream nutrition, industrial agriculture, and the assumption that food is neutral as long as it looks normal on the plate.
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Meet the Guest
Niti Bali is a regenerative food advocate and author whose work challenges the industrial food system. Her perspective is shaped by personal tragedy, lived experience, and a refusal to accept surface-level answers when it comes to health, agriculture, and responsibility.
Connect with Niti on Instagram and her personal website.
Episode Highlights
Niti didn’t start out questioning the food system. She cooked at home, bought basic ingredients, and assumed chicken was chicken and beef was beef. Then she found out she was pregnant, and soon after, her young daughter’s sleep issues turned into a medical emergency. A scan showed a massive tumor, and Niti describes the shock of being thrown into a system with no clear answers. That experience pushed her and her husband to dig for information on their own, with him focused on treatments and her looking harder at food and environmental exposures.
From there, the conversation turns to why the source of animal foods matters. Niti argues that animal foods can support health, but quality comes down to how animals are raised and what they’re exposed to. She connects that to regenerative farming and local food systems as a practical way to get more trustworthy food while supporting communities. Tristan and Niti also talk about how illness gets treated as normal now, and why it’s worth pushing back on that idea.
In this episode:
- How personal crisis can expose flaws in modern nutrition and medicine
- Why cooking at home does not guarantee protection from industrial food systems
- How blind trust in institutions delays real answers
- The difference between animal foods as calories versus carriers of life force
- Why regenerative agriculture matters for human health, not just the environment
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