256: Organics, Aquaponics & Hydroponics
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Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
What does "organic" labeling really mean? If I ask five Yoga Talk Show listeners, I'll get five different answers. And new growing methods stack complexity on complexity with hydroponics and aquaponics now falling under "organic" certification as well. On this week's show, we'll unpack certification, and more interesting still, we'll look at various growing techniques in detail and speculate on the future of food.
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Listen & Learn:
- Why the term "organic" is owned and controlled by USDA
- Why organic food can have non-organic certified fertilizer
- How universal organic regulations really only began in 2002
- Why chemical farming kills of the bacteria in the soil (hence 3 year waiting period for conversion to organic)
- Why aquaponics is not new and has been around forever in various forms
- How aquapoanics uses 80% less water than conventional farming
- How aquaponics produces both fish and short grow cycle edible vegetables
ABOUT OUR GUEST
Ro is the cofounder and co-owner of A Bee, a certification agency responsible for ensuring that USDA organic products meet the NOP organic standard. Ro has an interest in all things sustainable and serves as the director of the open-use nonprofit "I'm In Community".
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| 0:38.4 | digestion, like if you have chronic indigestion, gas and bloating, you really should think about supplementing with B12, and if you're plant-based at all, even if you're like 90% plant-based, you really need to take vitamin B12. You just will not get it from the food you eat. And yes, there's |
| 0:54.0 | vitamin B12 in spirulina, but no, it's not bioavailable. So your B12 levels |
| 0:58.3 | will get low. B12, you need it in micrograms, so very amounts and if you don't get it you can develop |
| 1:04.8 | all kinds of weird neurological nerve system stuff that takes years and years to develop |
| 1:10.2 | you won't even know what's going on you'll just be banging into the wall and forgetting people's names which is not a good idea. |
| 1:16.0 | A lot of vegetarians they refuse to believe that you need supplements. |
| 1:19.7 | There is no discussion about this in the medical community. |
| 1:22.6 | Everyone agrees that the responsible thing to do |
| 1:25.4 | if you're eating plant-based is a supplement |
| 1:27.4 | with a couple of different things. |
| 1:29.1 | B12 is one of them. |
| 1:30.4 | If you don't eat it, you won't get it, you don't get it, you'll forget people's names and |
| 1:34.0 | bonk your head into the wall. |
| 1:35.6 | We have a formula called Liquid Energy B and there's a couple of things I really like about it. |
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