Courtney Swan
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first heard Feb 2025
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And when you leave nature to do what it is intended to do, what it's meant to do, which is a thing called regenerative farming, there's this incredible process that happens called carbon sequestration where carbon is actually pulled out of the atmosphere because a lot of people were super concerned for good reason about there being too much carbon in the atmosphere.
If we leave nature to do her thing, she pulls the carbon out of the atmosphere and that is actually food for the soil. And if we're not spraying it with all these chemical interventions, we're letting the soil thrive with the bacteria and the bugs and everything that it's meant to be and how it's meant to be there. The carbons in the soil and it's this really deep, rich, like beautiful black soil.
That's going to be food for the plants.
And we see so many articles now saying, oh, our food is losing, you know, it's devoid of vitamins, minerals and nutrients. You talk about this all the time.
Yes, exactly.
And I love cows. That actually breaks my heart.
Well, I saw something online too. And a farmer actually verified this to me. Um, they're starting to feed candy to our livestock now too, just to fatten them up. They don't even think about the nutritional value anymore of like, oh, how can we feed them so that they're, you know, healthy and they get enough nutrients. No, they're just like, how can we fatten them up as fast and quick as possible?
So they're feeding them candy bars. They'll just throw candy bars in their feet. And sometimes they don't even take the wrappers off. I heard.
That's a great question. I mean, look, if I could just change one thing, it would just be can we just get these additives out of our food and focus on real food?
I think a lot of it is there's an education component there because there's a large portion of the population that's been eating so much foods out of packages that they, one, are scared to cook now or they feel like they can't cook or maybe it hasn't been passed down through generations through them anymore. So I definitely think there's an educational component there. So how can we really start?
And honestly, what I would love to see is we start doing this in schools with kids. Have them, when they're in kindergarten, have them start tending a garden and teach them the importance of growing your food and then show them how that food is then ending up on their plates for lunch. And then how can we have them have a cooking class? I think this should start very, very early.
Because there is a large education component there because now we're just telling, because this is, I have a huge issue about this. I actually just talked about this on a podcast yesterday. We are telling people, oh, you don't have time to cook or it's so expensive, don't even try. So I think so many people are not even trying anymore.
They're not even attempting it because they just think like, okay, well, that's one that's too expensive for me and it's not going to be accessible for me and it's super hard. We live in the most amazing time of information. You can literally open TikTok, open YouTube, and just type in any recipe you want to make, and you can watch a video of it.
So you can very easily, and I think so many people are scared to cook, but it is so easy. It doesn't have to be complicated. Grill up a steak, and then bake some sweet potatoes, and then add a little arugula on the side. Like, done. It does not have to be so hard. So from a policy standpoint... What we need to do is a couple of things.
I think, first of all, we need to stop paying subsidies for foods that are driving our chronic disease. Corn and soy, like I said earlier, are largely making up of the majority of the food like products.
Yes, so over 90% of our corn is genetically modified and over 90% of our soy is genetically modified. And those are a lot of what we're paying subsidies for. And then wheat as well. And then wheat is just now starting to be genetically modified. And so that means that it can withstand glyphosate. So you hear all this talk online saying, oh, GMOs actually means less pesticides.
No, the pesticides are quite literally in some of those seeds that are genetically modified. And if they're not, they're having to spray everything like crazy with glyphosate. So it actually means
Exactly. Because we're eating organic and we're going above and beyond. I mean, I filter my water. I filter my shower. I'm eating all organic in my home. The only time I don't eat organic is when I'm eating out and I can't control it.
Yeah, well, first and foremost, the reason I'm such a huge supporter of organic food in general is because there's a lot of laws and regulations around what is allowed and what is allowed to be sprayed on organic food. So legally, by law, if it's stamped organic, it means that it was not allowed to be sprayed by glyphosate.
If it's meat or dairy, it wasn't allowed to be injected with growth hormones. They're not allowed to give them pharmaceutical drugs. There's a lot of laws around it. Also, they can't eat genetically modified crops. with organic. So if you buy organic meat, exactly, you know that they're not eating this pesticide-laden grains.
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