Courtney Swan
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So that to me is the biggest concern right now and why I feel like it's non-negotiable. But what is so insidious about all this is that organic is just what we should be eating. There should not be two different options. What I would love to see is that we're just not using these pesticides anymore. And organic is just the only option. It's just food, right?
Because, you know, 50 years ago when our grandparents were eating, they were eating organic, but they weren't labeling it organic. It just was food.
Yeah.
Well, we're seeing a really concerning trend right now. I would encourage people to Google this because you can actually look up photos. So, look, you can never outsmart nature. Nature always finds a way.
And what's happening with a lot of these weeds that were initially being killed off by glyphosate, you're seeing these crazy glyphosate-resistant weeds popping up everywhere that the farmers don't really know how to handle because they're no longer – responding to the glyphosate. And so it's, again, like nature always finds a way.
It's similar to like, you know, like the antibiotic resistance that we see when you're taking too much antibiotics. And we're seeing it a lot because we're giving it prophylactically to our livestock. So there is, yeah, there's a huge concern with that as well. And there's a lot of
pushback against the organic movement from the agrochemical companies because they say, well, how are the farmers going to survive? How are we going to feed the world? How are we going to create enough food for everyone? And what I always tell people is there's this amazing farming systems trial that's been going on for 40 years.
And what it is, it's been an ongoing study that's still happening right now. They've been doing it for 40 years through the Rodale Institute. And what they do is they have conventional farming on one side and then they have organic farming on the other side.
It's incredible. Yeah. And what they have found is that in this organic farming system, it produces the same, if not sometimes even more yield than what the conventional is yielding. And then on top of that, it's sustainable. Because what we're doing in our conventional model right now is we're getting to a point where we are desertifying the soil.
And we're depleting it of so much nutrients that at some point you literally cannot plant there anymore. And you have to go somewhere else to plant. And they are theorizing if we continue down this path and we keep ignoring this, that we have about, depending on who you talk to, anywhere between like 52 to 54 harvests left where we will no longer have soil that's plantable for plants.
So we need to do something because what we're doing right now, it's just a quick fix. Right. It's not long term sustainable. And our, you know, our grandkids are not even going to have soil left to plant in. Right.
I really hope so. That is one of my number one dreams, like hopes that we get out of Maha. I know Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is incredibly passionate about regenerative farming and I know he knows about it. And also too, we know that it can be done large scale.
I mean, we have these farmers like Will Harris and Joel Salatin that have these huge regenerative farms and they all came from the traditional conventional path and they switched over to regenerative. And they also provide a lot of resources for farmers that want to switch over.
It's also healthier for the farmers because they're not using all this glyphosate and all the other stuff that so many of these farmers, no one is really talking about this. So many of these farmers are now getting non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
They're getting crazy aggressive forms of cancer from using these chemicals.
Exactly. But part of the issue is that we need an entire reform of our food system here in America because right now we have... I don't know the exact number, but we have a small amount of just really large industrialized farms. And then they're just shipping out everything across the country.
And what people don't realize is that an apple that you get at the grocery store has probably been, it was probably three weeks from being picked because they picked it and then they sprayed it with something in the truck that makes it ripen while it's on its trip to you.
And then finally, by the time you get it at the grocery store, it was picked like three weeks ago and it was ripened in the back of a truck, not on a tree. And we're doing this largely across all of our food systems. So what we need to do is we need to incentivize farmers to go back to regenerative farming. We need more local farms where we can get local produce from our communities.
I think a lot of these smaller farmers that are super passionate about all this, they're all getting pushed out by these big industrialized farms that are taking over everything. And then they're just ruining our food supply and they're spraying everything and they're conventionally farming. And, yeah, to your point, I mean, you talk about this all the time, the nutritional deficiencies.
Americans are overfed and undernourished.
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