Andy Holtz: Sustainable Food Systems, Pollution and Why Local Food Will Save Us

The Evan Brand Show

Evan Brand, BCHN, FNTP

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 802 Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2014

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Andy Holtz is the Director of Development and Advancement for Sustainable America, an organization dedicated to preventing a further food/fuel crisis. We discuss why the fuel market determines food quality and cost and how we can mitigate the inflation. We also discuss pollution and the massive island of plastic out in the ocean. Lastly, we discuss why local food is the only way of the future and simple ways to implement change in your life.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody.
0:07.0	Hey, everybody. This is Evan Brand, your host of Not Just Paleo. Welcome back to the show.
0:24.4	If you're a first time listener, thanks for tuning in. This is my passion and pursuit for the last two years,
0:31.1	exploring all aspects of health and happiness. And whether it's micronutrient deficiencies or stress or depression or anxiety,
0:40.5	I'm trying to conquer basically every uncomfortable problem that we have to face in life.
0:45.5	And of course, a certain level of uncomfortableness is needed and that's what fuels us to make
0:50.7	change. But I'm talking more about chronic issues here that are caused from a lack of
0:55.8	quality food or, you know, proper stress management that hasn't been put in place or lack of
1:02.2	meditation and stuff like that. So today, we're actually stepping out of the normal routine of
1:08.0	talking with doctors and other health experts, and we're talking with Andy
1:11.4	Holtz, who works for Sustainable America. This is an organization who is all about creating
1:17.6	a more sustainable food system that doesn't depend so much on fuel and oil, because as we all
1:24.0	know, everything has to get to the grocery store somehow.
1:31.4	And of course, that's done by semi-trucks and boats and planes and ships and all sorts of crazy transportation devices used to get a pineapple from Costa Rica into Chicago,
1:40.0	the Chicago Whole Foods in February.
1:42.2	It's crazy.
1:42.9	And we'll get into all that on this episode,
1:45.9	but I want to quickly tell you to go to rebootedbody.com
1:50.9	slash webinar.
1:53.1	Me and Kevin, the co-author of my book that comes out this Thursday,
1:58.1	March 27th, called Rim Rehab, is coming out.
2:01.8	It's officially launching,
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