Is Meat Bad for the Environment?
Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare
Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC
4.6 • 804 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Diana Rodgers—dietitian, author, and filmmaker—speaks internationally about the intersection of optimal human nutrition, regenerative agriculture, and food justice. In this episode, her expertise in and passion for sustainability comes out as she discusses why it's important to shift away from the anti-meat narrative and instead toward improving our food systems, ecosystem, and health. Listen in to hear why producing and eating meat may do more good than harm.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Rousho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best. |
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| 0:30.6 | The following discussion is for educational purposes only and is not intended to diagnose or treat |
| 0:36.3 | any disease. Please do not apply any of this information |
| 0:39.6 | without first speaking with your doctor. Now let's head to the show. Hey everyone, Diana Rogers |
| 0:46.0 | joins me again today to discuss her great work. She is literally traveling the world, trying to |
| 0:53.3 | provide a balanced perspective as it pertains to sustainable agriculture and the importance of not sliding into falsely vilifying cows and meat for being over consumers of water or releases of carbon or methane. |
| 1:13.4 | Her wonderful book and documentary co-authored in part with Rob Wolf, Sacred Cow is great. |
| 1:23.0 | She's been on the Joe Rogan podcast. |
| 1:25.2 | Really a wonderful conversation with her today. We discussed how |
| 1:29.9 | beef, and this was news to me, is probably the most humanely raised of many of the animals, and |
| 1:36.3 | especially as compared to chicken and pork. I found that insightful and we'll outline why that is |
| 1:43.3 | during the show, how cattle are mostly, |
| 1:48.5 | and I believe it was 85% of cattle are grazing on unusable land before they go into the |
| 1:57.6 | feed lots that we should be focusing on nutrient production in our food supply, |
| 2:06.0 | not just volume of production, the importance of looking at food production as an ecosystem, |
| 2:13.5 | rather than, I guess you could say a business or just something that's optimizing for |
| 2:18.7 | volume output. |
| 2:20.8 | And also, she covers a or the controversy regarding the accuracy or lack of accuracy for the |
| 2:29.4 | amount of water that it takes to raise cattle. |
| 2:35.1 | And then also, I'd like to encourage everyone to go to global food justice.org, |
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