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The Dr. Hyman Show

Miriam Horn on Why Big Farmers are Not Always the Bad Guys

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

This week I sit down with Miriam Horn of the Environmental Defense Fund and New York Times-best selling author. What fascinated me most about our conversation is how she challenged and brought into question our assumptions about how we can save the environment. We so often point to ranchers, farmers and fisherman, the people who cultivate and raise our food, as being the enemy. But Miriam showed me that in those places, we can find unlikely allies who could shape the future our world forever and for the better. Don't forget to leave a review and subscribe so you never miss an episode. For more great content, find me everywhere: facebook.com/drmarkhyman youtube.com/drhyman instagram.com/markhymanmd

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the Doctors' Pharmacy. This is Dr. Mark Heimann and I'm delighted

0:09.0

today to have as our guest Miriam Horn, an extraordinary environmentalist who's challenging

0:13.7

our assumptions about how to fix our environmental crises. She's written three books, Rebels

0:20.3

and White Gloves, coming of age with Hillary's class, Wellesley 1969, Earth the sequel, the

0:27.5

Race to Reinvent Energy, Stop Global Warming, which was co-authored with the Environmental

0:32.2

Defense Fund's President Fred Krupp in the book was a New York Times best seller, and

0:36.6

we're going to talk about today Rancher Farmer Fisherman, Conservation Heroes of the American

0:41.8

Heartland, which was a Kirkers Review's best book of the year, and she used a film which

0:46.9

I recommend you all watch called Rancher Farmer Fisherman based on the book, which had

0:51.1

its world premiere at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and was aired globally on Discovery

0:56.3

in August 2017. Now before joining the Environmental Defense Fund, Ms. Horn spent 15 years writing

1:02.2

for US News and World Report, she's no slouch. The New York Times, Ms. Sonya and other publications,

1:08.0

her first job was at the US Forest Service in Colorado and she has a bachelor's degree

1:12.4

from Harvard and completed two years of post-graduate study in Earth and Environmental Sciences at

1:17.8

Columbia University, not to mention that she was a Japan Society Amina Fellow in 2012,

1:22.7

a clean energy team she led at Environmental Defense Fund won the ZAD Future Energy Prize.

1:27.6

So stay tuned that conversation is coming up next on the Doctors Pharmacy.

1:33.3

I'm so happy to have you here. Welcome. Thank you. I'm thrilled to be here.

1:40.0

So I want to get into your background a little bit, but you know what really fascinates me

1:43.6

is that we have a lot of assumptions about the environment, about saving the environment,

1:50.6

you challenge some of these assumptions and look at some big players that we often think

1:55.9

are the enemy, ranchers, farmers, fishermen that are destroying the planet, depleting the oceans,

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