Josh Tickell: Kiss The Ground
Wellness + Wisdom Podcast
Josh Trent
4.8 • 913 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
50% of our calories should be coming from fruits and vegetables. So, tell me why we use our land to produce less than 5% of fruits and vegetables in the United States? It's because it's 95% profit for big brands. Rather than growing the food here, they import food from cheap labor countries, but all that food has been sprayed a tremendous amount of chemical. As a customer, you're not saving money with their method anyway; you're going to spend money later on a kidney dialysis, a heart transplant, on diazepam or whatever hundred drugs pharmaceutical companies are going to shove down your throat. - Josh Tickell
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How can healing ourselves through growing and eating more natural, nutritious foods also help heal the environment?
On Wellness Force Radio 179, Film Director and Producer of documentaries such as FUEL and the upcoming Kiss The Ground film with Big Picture Ranch, Author of the book, Kiss the Ground, and Blogger of The Veggie Van Voyage, Josh Tickell joins us to share how we can reverse the effects of CO2 in the air by making changes on both a micro and macro level with our soil.
From composting to voting with your wallet, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and tools to improve your carbon footprint on this planet.
Kiss the Ground
Josh Tickell, one of America’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers and director of Fuel, has dedicated most of his life to saving the environment. Now, in Kiss the Ground, he explains an incredible truth: by changing our diets to a soil-nourishing, regenerative agriculture diet, we can reverse global warming, harvest healthy, abundant food, and eliminate the poisonous substances that are harming our children, pets, bodies, and ultimately our planet.
Through fascinating and accessible interviews with celebrity chefs, ranchers, farmers, and top scientists, this remarkable book, soon to be a full-length documentary film narrated by Woody Harrelson, will teach you how to become an agent in humanity’s single most important and time-sensitive mission. Reverse climate change and effectively save the world—all through the choices you make in how and what to eat.
Listen To Episode 179 As Josh Tickell Uncovers:
- His experience working on organic farms as a WWOOfer.
- Where he got the idea of using a natural source instead of gas to fuel his van for the Veggie Van Voyage.
- What it was like to live next to an oil field growing up and the illness that his family was experiencing from all of the pollution.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | At the community level people fail to realize how much power we have as cities, as towns, as counties. |
| 0:10.0 | You can actually go online and see where the pesticides and which pesticides are being |
| 0:13.2 | sprayed. If you have that deep level of data and knowledge, it's time to start to |
| 0:19.0 | turn the dial back and say, okay, this area around my kid's school, yeah, no pesticides there. |
| 0:26.1 | This area around that park? |
| 0:27.8 | Yeah, we're not spraying the park anymore. |
| 0:30.2 | And those places where we live as human beings need to be safe and protected. |
| 0:34.0 | That's number one. That's a community political action. |
| 0:38.0 | Okay? Get the pesticides off your sidewalks, get them out of your lawns, get them out of your kids playgrounds. |
| 0:45.8 | There's 200 peer review studies that link these pesticides to ADHD, AEDD, prenatal cancer, |
| 0:51.2 | lymphoma, leukemia, you know, look, you don't spray your kid with poisons. |
| 0:56.0 | That's Josh Tikal, and this is episode 179 of Wellness Force Radio. |
| 1:01.3 | What's up, my friend? |
| 1:02.3 | It's your host, Josh Trent. Welcome back to another |
| 1:04.6 | episode for your weekly access to global experts in all things wellness as we |
| 1:09.1 | discover the physical and emotional intelligence we need to live life well. My friends I'm back from the |
| 1:15.1 | other side of the moon if you've been following me on social or you're a part of |
| 1:19.2 | our wellness force community our wellness force family over at wellness force.com forward slash group then you know |
| 1:25.2 | I've recently been through a personal transformation to say the very least we're talking a lot more |
| 1:30.8 | about this over the next month my trip trip to Rhythmia in Guanacaste Costa Rica where part of me died, but don't worry, it was actually a part of me that I've been wanting to die for over a decade. |
| 1:41.0 | Much more on that to come. Stay tuned for the podcast and the weeks ahead, |
| 1:44.0 | but right now I am so grateful to get to connect with you |
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