Why Eating Fake Meat Won't Solve Our Climate Problem
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 20 January 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Wendell Berry said, "To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd."
We need to revolutionize the food system completely. We have as system that fuels destruction, not only of our own health, but the health of the planet and animals.
My new book, Food Fix, both defines the problems and maps out the policies, business innovations and grass roots solutions. And what we can each do to improve our health and the health of our communities and the planet.
I cannot cure obesity and diabetes in my office. It is cured on the farm, in the grocery store, in the restaurant, in our kitchens, schools, workplaces, and faith based communities. This book will show you how. If you care about your health and the health of your community and the planet, visit foodfixbook.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy. So whether you eat animals or not you need animals to solve our global food problem |
| 0:07.9 | To solve our global climate problem and to solve our global health problems |
| 0:13.9 | Hey, everybody it's dr. Mark. I'm sitting here. I just haven't given him talk in big sir about my new book |
| 0:21.8 | food figs |
| 0:23.2 | Which I'm so excited about how to save our health our economy |
| 0:27.5 | Our communities and our planet one by the time and it's really I think the culmination my life's worked the most important |
| 0:32.8 | but I've ever written about how the food system connects |
| 0:36.7 | Everything that matters it connects to obviously the chronic disease that is caused by the process food |
| 0:43.4 | We eat the ultra-process food. We kills 11 million people a year. That's a lot of people |
| 0:48.0 | six out of 10 Americans have a chronic disease and it's bankrupting our nation, you know one third of Medicare dollars is spent |
| 0:55.5 | On diabetes with Medicare is one third or entire federal budget rising fast and we're gonna be on a money in the Medicare |
| 1:01.3 | Trust Fund by 2026 a lot of economic issues a social dust issues poverty violence mental illness ADD behavioral issues |
| 1:09.8 | All are connected to what people eat and the quality of the food or the lack of quality and then there's all the environmental climate issues |
| 1:17.7 | Right, we've got the loss of |
| 1:20.0 | Diversity of species we've lost half of our animal species 90% of our edible plant species 75% of pollinators all a big deal if you want to grow food for humans and |
| 1:32.6 | Of course climate change and most people don't realize that our food system is the number one cause of climate change and then including deforestation |
| 1:40.7 | factory farming the animals soil erosion |
| 1:43.8 | refrigeration transport of food food waste |
| 1:46.8 | Packaging processing all that requires huge amounts energy release lots of greenhouse gases fertilizers is one of the worst actually |
| 1:52.9 | It's about 10% of all global greenhouse gas emissions from fertilizer |
| 1:58.2 | which uses fracking natural gas which probably didn't know which I didn't know and so basically we have all these issues and |
| 2:05.0 | Food is the cause and food is the cure so I'm extremely helpful because there's so much leverage and possibility |
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