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What's The Juice

The Truth About GMOs & How to Eat Around Corruption in Our Food System | Courtney Swan

What's The Juice

Olivia Amitrano

Organic, Organicolivia, Plantmedicine, Herbalremedies, Herbs, Medicine, Alternative Health, Education, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Ep 122. We’re kicking things off with an impromptu hello and life update from Olivia — then diving into the nitty gritty with Courtney Swan, a real food activist who is on a mission to fix our broken food system. Today she’s answering the question: are GMOs safe for consumption? There are five genetically modified crops on the market that have become so abundant that they’re used in almost all packaged foods… knowing what they are and where they’re found is the key to learning how to eat your way around corruption in our food supply. In this episode, Courtney articulately breaks down the practices being used in agriculture today – clarifying ways we can be supporting farmers doing things right (and tangible ways to not fall victim to our current food system).

 

HERE’S THE JUICE:

  • What are the five genetically modified foods? WHY do we have such an overabundance of them on the market?

  • What food lobbying is and why soda is more accessible on food stamps than produce

  • How monocropping is negatively affecting farmers  

  • How food hybridization and genetically modifying our crops are not the same practice

  • What the problem with corn is now, and why we are continually overfed and undernourished

  • Why seed oils are in so many of our foods – creation from industrial waste products 

  • The best practices that you can adopt day-to-day to help decrease your consumption of seed oils and reduce inflammation 

 

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Mentioned Documentaries:

Genetic Roulette (GMO documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnhB99I86G8

Kiss the Ground (soil documentary): https://kissthegroundmovie.com/

Common Ground (regenerative farming doc): https://commongroundfilm.org/

Transcript

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0:00.0

Thank you so much for tuning into today's episode of What's the Juice podcast and happy July 1st.

0:10.0

I cannot believe that it's already July and that we've just completed half of the year of What's the Juice.

0:18.7

It has been such a fun journey. I hope you guys are loving the

0:22.4

episode so far. And I figured I would give you guys a little bit of an update since I haven't

0:28.6

really been on social media and Instagram. And I'm mainly saying hi and interacting

0:33.2

with you guys through the podcast. So, hello, what have I been up to? I have not been posting on my

0:41.6

Instagram nearly as much these days. I think I've kind of come to a bit of a slow halt

0:46.6

gradually over the last few years. I've kind of alluded to it a bit. I mentioned at the top of this season

0:53.1

that I was going to be stepping back from social

0:55.7

media more and focusing more of my energy on the podcast and on the next iteration of what

1:01.1

I'm planning to do with my platform as a whole. And it has been really nice to take the time away

1:08.9

from constantly documenting and producing your life on social media,

1:14.9

even when you have the best of intentions.

1:17.4

Because I think that, you know, the social media world, the Instagram world, can be an

1:23.6

incredible vehicle for change.

1:25.2

And I really hope that this podcast is continuing to be helpful to you guys and a vehicle

1:29.7

for change.

1:30.5

But at the same time, Instagram kind of makes it hard for you to continue the constant death

1:40.8

and rebirth process that it is to be a human because you always have to be kind of

1:45.5

translating yourself as you show up online. And I think when you're so used to showing up a certain

1:51.3

way, but internally you're going through such a massive shift, it's really hard to communicate

1:55.9

what that shift looks like and who this new person you're becoming is when again you're like trying to fit in the

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