How Hedonism Can Change Our Food System

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2019

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

You might be surprised to learn that there is a major monopoly when it comes to seeds. Globally, 68% of seeds are in the hands of just three companies. This has major implications for our food system at every level. In this mini-episode Dr. Hyman talks with Dan Barber about how seeds are the blueprint for better food, better soil, and a better food system. Dan explains why seeds are the foundation for a new food system and why making food taste great opens the doorway for healthier people and a healthier planet.

Dan Barber is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns and the author of The Third Plate. He also co-founded Row 7 Seed Company, a seed company bringing together chefs and plant breeders in the development of new varieties of vegetables and grains. Dan has received multiple James Beard awards including Best Chef: New York City (2006) and the country’s Outstanding Chef (2009).

Listen to Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dan Barber here https://drmarkhyman.lnk.to/DanBarber

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of The Doctors Pharmacy.
0:02.9	What you just said is a front page in New York Times story.
0:06.1	Hi, I'm Kaya Perot, one of the producers of The Doctors Pharmacy podcast.
0:09.7	You might be surprised to learn that there is a major monopoly when it comes to seeds.
0:14.0	Globally, over a third of all seeds are in the hands of just three companies.
0:18.4	In this mini episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Mastermind chef and regenerative agriculture advocate Dan Barber.
0:24.7	Together, they discuss the importance of seeds and why Dan supports a hedonistic approach
0:28.9	to changing the way we grow food.
0:30.6	Some of the biggest problems we have are solvable by actually rethinking how we grow food.
0:36.0	And that's really what you've come to as a chef is solving the problem of hedonism.
0:40.4	You have to go back to the farm and the seed and the soil and the way we grow food.
0:45.1	It's a very empowering message.
0:46.4	Now, I want to go into the seed coming to think for a minute because most people don't understand
0:51.1	that there's a seed monopoly out there.
0:54.2	The centralization of seed creation and production and the selling of seeds
1:00.1	is happening at scale globally and is undermining local farmers and food producers all over the world.
1:06.0	Most of them around the world are women and small landholders or farm owners.
1:11.2	What you just said is a front page in the New York Times story.
1:14.0	I don't know why this is more, I mean, the seed industry is now consolidated at the point that
1:20.7	any new variety of seed that has developed 68 percent is in the hands of three companies.
1:30.4	So nearly 70 percent of the future of our food is in the hands of three companies.
1:35.3	Which is by San Joe and while by San Joe has just been bought by by by bear.
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