Only A Few Companies Control Our Entire Food System

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.5 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Research has shown that for every 10% of your diet that comes from ultra-processed food, your risk of death goes up by 14%. Yet 60% of American diets are made up of ultra-processed food. And though the government tells us to eat more fruits and vegetables, existing food policy subsidizes thousands of acres of corn, soy, and wheat that are turned into processed junk food, while only 2% of our farmland is used to grow fruits and vegetables. In fact, if everybody ate the government-recommended amounts of vegetables and fruits, there actually wouldn’t be enough to go around. Part of what is driving these issues is that there is a major monopoly when it comes to seeds. Just a handful of companies control the majority of what and how crops are grown. We have to change our agricultural policies. Dr. Hyman dives into these topics and more in this mini-episode of The Doctor’s Farmacy. He also outlines the problems and the solutions in his new book, Food Fix. foodfixbook.com

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy only one percent of corn grown America is actually eaten by human beings
0:06.4	It's actual corn the rest is for animal feed biofuels
0:10.4	high-froktor's corn syrup for your sugar soda welcome to the doctor's pharmacy
0:14.3	I'm doctor Mark Hyman and that's pharmacy within F F-A-R-M-A-C-Y a place for conversations that matter
0:19.8	I just want to take a little bit of a journey here on a couple of foods we eat and
0:24.8	talk about
0:26.3	The invisible truth behind the food we eat so let's take a journey with an average burger canis soda
0:32.4	Story starts an Iowa maybe Brazil goes all the way so you're drive through window where it's handed over for consumption
0:38.1	first you need this stuff that feeds conventional cows
0:42.9	That is grown in these controlled feeding or confined feeding operations typically consists of corn and soy grown in monocrop mega farms and these
0:51.1	mega farms or
0:52.7	CAFOs these confined animal feeding operations are causing major issues. Let's look at what's actually happening when you eat that
1:00.4	convention-raised burger first the GMO seeds are sold by
1:06.0	Big egg
1:07.6	Monopolys two farmers they have to buy them and there's about four big companies
1:12.4	Bear Monsanto, which is now one company chem China's in Gentda Dow Dupont one company
1:17.1	I think they split up and BASF control most of the seeds in the world including 60% of vegetable seeds
1:22.6	Now these companies and burden the farmers with less choice higher prices making farmers depend on their seeds but only a seeds the chemicals
1:31.2	Like pesticides herbicides that are actually used on those special seeds because they're resistant to these pesticides and herbicides
1:38.5	It's a great business model you
1:41.9	Basically sell the farmers the seeds and then you send sell them the chemicals that are used on the seeds now
1:48.3	Consequence of this consolidation of seed production around the world from hundreds of companies to just a few
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