Homo Lectio—The Reading Human | Robb Lauzon | TEDxJuniataCollege

Every day as I travel from home to Juniata College, I pass farmlands of Appalachia, past cows perched precariously on the hillside. I'm reminded by my colleagues in environmental science that these lands are ideal for ruminant animals who mow blades of grass into digestible matter in their ruminant stomachs. You are what you eat. When a ruminant animal like a cow eats, the food first passes into the rin where it is then fermented and regurgitated into their mouth to be chewed further. Yeah, we chewing the c ...