Who was the poster that only ate raw meat?

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 Derek Nance’s Lexington home looks like most of the houses in his neighborhood.

There's a garden in the backyard, a freshwater pond with small fish swimming and some chickens in a hen house.

But the backyard doesn't give the full picture of Nance's life. It's what he keeps inside his house, that's turning heads - and stomachs.

"Raw is just so much easier for me to digest," he said as he opened a large refrigerator in the utility room.

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I'll just sit here and chew on one of those for a while, whenever I need a snack," Nance said, before he showed us the hanging spleen, "It's a big bloody sponge."

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"I started studying other people who were into the raw aspect that the vitamins and nutrients are more intact raw, and it's better and easier for the body to digest," Nance explained.

He said the raw diet immediately solved his health problems. Part of the reason Nance said it works for his body is because of his thorough vetting of the sheep.

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go out to the farm and try to source local, grass-fed, pasture-raised, directly from the source because I just need to see for myself where the animals came from," Nance said. "I think it's important to look at the animal while it's alive and there's a certain vitality and vibrancy in the animal that you can see and you can see for yourself if it's healthy."

Nance slaughters the sheep on the farm, if the owner is okay with it. Otherwise, he brings the live sheep to his home and slaughters it in his backyard

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Nance has four children who are excited to tell anyone about their dad's diet. Because of that, social services has visited the home a few times.

The case is always dropped because he doesn't make the children eat raw meat, and he handles it as safely as possible.

"My daughters will eat some raw meat and they like it, and they like drinking eggs, but I don't strictly put it on them. They are free to decide," Nance said.

He knows his diet is strange. He is the subject of some documentaries. He also knows what works for him isn't for everyone.

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