Who Is Growing And Picking The Food You Eat And How Are They Being Treated?

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

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🗓️ 30 April 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Who Is Growing And Picking The Food You Eat And How Are They Being Treated? | This episode is brought to you by Belcampo

Most of us don’t think about food and farmworkers when we are eating or shopping for groceries, but this is actually the largest sector of workers in the United States. Unfortunately, these workers have historically been marginalized and are often unprotected and underpaid.

In this minisode, Dr. Hyman offers a brief overview of why food and farmworkers were not included in the United States Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. He also talks to Kerry Kennedy about a group of farmworkers who banded together to create the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to fight for better wages and working conditions. This coalition of farmworkers found a creative solution to injustice by creating the Fair Food Program, which mandates that growers provide basic protections for their workers.

Kerry Kennedy is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. Since 1981, she has worked on diverse human rights issues including child labor, disappearances, indigenous land rights, judicial independence, freedom of expression, ethnic violence, impunity, women's rights, and the environment. Kerry is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Being Catholic Now, Robert F. Kennedy: Ripples of Hope, and Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World. Kerry founded RFK Compass, which convenes biannual meetings of institutional investors who collectively control $5 to $7 trillion in assets to address the impact of human rights violations on investment outcomes. She serves on the boards of the U.S. Institute of Peace, Human Rights First, Ethics in Action, SDG USA, Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa, Health eVillages, Kailash Satyarthi Children's Foundation, Nizami Ganjavi International Center as well as several public companies.

This episode is brought to you by Belcampo. Right now, you can order Belcampo’s sustainably-raised meats to be delivered to your door using my code HYMAN at Belcampo.com/Hyman for 20% off for first-time customers.

Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Kerry Kennedy, “Is Your Food Grown by Oppressed Farmworkers?” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/KerryKennedy

Find Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Dr. Charles Modlin, Dr. Leonor Osorio, and Tawny Jones from Cleveland Clinic, “Why We Have The Worst Health Outcomes Of All Industrialized Nations” here: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/ModlinOsorioJones

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0:00.0	Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:02.5	The coalition of mockly workers and that is an extraordinary organization that really
0:09.6	has come up with a formula that has stopped exploitation and stopped abuse and stopped sexual
0:18.4	assault basically and did sexual assault among farm workers and their model is now being used
0:26.0	in Bangladesh for garment workers that's being used in Hollywood for the Me Too movement
0:34.7	and it's being used in the upstate in Vermont for dairy workers.
0:41.9	Hey everyone, it's Dr. Mark. Now there's so much debate in the diet world about eating meat,
0:47.0	but whether you're vegan, paleo or pegane like me, one thing we can absolutely agree on is
0:52.8	the conventionally raised feedlot meat is dangerous for our health and the planet and just an awful
0:59.2	way to raise animals. For those of us who do eat meat, we can actually do it in a way that benefits
1:03.9	the environment, the climate and our bodies if we choose animals that are regeneratively raised.
1:09.8	Now one of the pioneers in making regenerally raised meat and more accessible is Bell Campo,
1:14.4	which you may have heard me mention recently on the podcast when I interviewed their founder,
1:18.7	Anya Fernald. Bell Campo is the leader of hyper sustainable organic grass fed and finished,
1:25.5	certified humane meats, bros and jerkeys. The brevity loosenizing the meat industry for the
1:30.1	well-being of the planet, for the people and the animals by farming meat the right way with humane
1:36.4	regenerative and climate positive practices. Now Bell Campo believes in letting animals grow slowly
1:42.1	and actually letting them graze on open pastures and seasonal grasses resulting in meat that
1:46.8	is higher in nutrients and healthy fats. They have the data backed up to their grass fed and
1:51.4	grass-finished beef averages a healthy one to 1.2 omega-3 to omega-6 ratio, which is better than
1:57.7	other brands of grass fed beef and much better than conventional beef. Their pasture chicken is 20%
2:03.5	more protein-preserving than conventional chicken and their meats have more antioxidants,
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