José Andrés
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first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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fulfill its promise it's like okay but let's not fight about cutting it down let's fight about how to make it better and let's make sure how those dollars in the process of feeding american families in blue and red states equally that helps those families that fall behind to be able to put food in the table are able to do it with the dignity they deserve what happened
That because I said before the government doesn't see food as a whole, and usually everything is handled through the Department of Agriculture, which it's okay, but it's not the right way. What happens that when a family in a poor suburban area in any city in America receives the food stamps money, in the place they live is so poor that they don't even have a market.
Because their neighborhood is so poor that nobody wants to open the market. So even those poor families, they have to go to another neighborhood to spend those dollars, even when they have no transportation sometimes because they don't own a car or they don't have public transportation. So they don't have easy access even to that food.
So imagine if all of a sudden the government, yes, they help the people through the food stamps, but also in the process, urban housing development is able to help building a market that is run by the city or is run by the state where the local farmers can come. In a way, you are subsidizing that business because no other private business wants to do it.
But somebody has to be taking care of that shortfall. And all of a sudden, we build there a market. All of a sudden, that family has the dignity to be able to shop in their neighborhood where that shop actually hired local people that all of a sudden they are employee in the neighborhood. And that neighborhood, it stops being poor no longer.
And all of a sudden, that one dollar, as the example I gave you of DC Central Kitchen, is not only the dollar that the government throws money at the problem, I'm going to feed you today, but that dollar of the government, if the government is smart and works as a whole.
creates local employment in the same poor neighborhood, gives dignity to that neighborhood because all of a sudden it's a little bodega, a little market. All of a sudden that place comes back to life.
That's a wonderful idea. Is there an example of a government in this world that's doing that?
It's working places in the world that, you know. Local places. It's important that in America we have something we call the food deserts. Yeah. In Spain, the country no more, we have our own share of problems too. It's never the perfect city, the perfect state of the perfect country because if one place is perfect, please call us right now.
Call us to joerogen.com and tell us the place and Joe Rogan and I will move there tomorrow, right? But in Spain, I grew up in public markets. Public markets that were available everywhere.
Public markets were public markets with the smallest stalls that local business owners could have their little chicken place or the local farmer could have a place he could afford and be not only a farmer but a local businessman by selling his product.
Right. Here we have farmer's markets.
Farmer's markets, which are great. But it's very difficult to see them in the forgotten, sometimes voiceless places in America. Right. in a lot of suburban areas, in a lot of rural areas, that sometimes they are totally forgotten. And food could be a great way to make sure that they are not forgotten.
Every school in America should have a kitchen with good cooks, that they are well-trained, that they are well-paid. Investing money in infrastructure to build those kitchens. Buying from the local farmers who run in those rural schools.
In the process, $1 to feed the children, but $1 to invest in infrastructure, $1 to buy food from the local farmers, $1 to pay for the local cooks that work in that little place.
rural community, all of a sudden in the process of feeding better quality food to our children, food that is fresh and made from scratch and that when you can is local, that one dollar to feed the children is also one dollar that indirectly through the investment of the federal government invest in the economy of that forgotten poor rural community.
That's why those are examples of how food can be making our system better. Yeah, absolutely. France invests a lot of money in feeding the children. Spain invests money in feeding the children. But America, I know we can do much better, especially because what you mentioned before. We have issues with obesity. We have issues with hunger. At the same time,
And the government has to play a bigger role in how to be solving those issues that to me there are no problems but opportunities.
Yeah. No, I agree. I think one thing that this administration is doing well under Bobby Kedeney is that he's trying to educate people on what is healthy food. And what are the problems? And one of the ways you start is by eliminating harmful ingredients that are banned in other countries and that we use everywhere in this country.
And to slowly but surely make people aware of these problems and make people aware of what these foods are doing to the overall metabolic health of these people and why we have these crises. why we have these crises of obesity and diabetes, type 2 diabetes, which is food-caused, and environmental issues that people have because of pesticides and herbicides, and to slowly clean that up.
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