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have read every single one of your books i was going to a little bit of a scrolling here this is mark bittman just google books and you will see so many publications how to do this how to do that some alliteration simple ways to cook when bread and so it goes on and on and on mark but what is special about animal vegetable junk. well i didn't i thought of writing about food for 40 years and a lot of that has been about cooking travel restaurants etc etc that's one side of it but have through that period of that 20 years ago i recognize that. food is life is everything food is way more important than how you prepare it. agriculture is political food is political and these things need to be talked about there hasn't been a lot of conversation given how important food is there isn't

a lot of conversation about the role that it plays in every aspect of society so i started to write about those things and and worked my way into a weekly food column about the policy and politics of and health aspects of and climate aspects of food and did that for the new york times for 5 years and then decided to write an animal's edged will john so i've been working on this for since 2016 about 5 years and yeah i think it's time there's not anything like this book. there aren't a lot of people out here talking about all aspects of food in and it's climate is climate and food is a really important topic but so is food and health food and labor food and immigration food and water and so on so yeah there's a lot a lot going on here but we're going to go over a lot since our mutual trash talk directly. questions about food and climate

challenge our kind of food system how we make it bata you can do that if you are new to christ while jumping to the comment section but part of to welcome to work a meeting a little bit off a little book i read it as well i might just like random here is that. i think you have something for up to just entice paper into the big. of how to start the conversation well you know i like i will read a little bit but let me let me just say this. we need food to live that's obvious but the most important aspect of food is soil and in order to produce good food for us for everyone from now until the race ends we need healthy soil so let me read a little bit about that agriculture is an eternal experiment the firms annually or seasonally it's always being improved in the eyes of its practitioners or those who

govern them its key components our son with letters soil and labor sun we can take for granted what are in sauna however are precious and finite resources that must be manipulated and stewarded responsibly that work is the farmer's labor so let me say right there what we have what's involved in producing food that's most important is land water sun labor and soil which is part of land something we can take for granted it's one of the few things we can what are you either have or you don't and obviously wars are fought over water and and land. a labor and soil are the key things over which we have control and those are the things that are being ignored by industrial agriculture are being exploited i should say by industrial agriculture

and those are the things we need to fix the health of humans the well being a few minutes. that's what's key here and that's what's missing mike i want to introduce you to cattle temps cultivates as a director when to trust such a book i'm just a question for him. and here fuck you to a very beautiful job of describing how our modern industrialized food system has really helped contribute to a lot of the health disparities that we see today so my question as how my cultural fit traditions is to be a part of the solution and but a problem my cultural fit traditions craig and helping to produce health of equities is a great question kelli thank you for that and. i want to make one statement that is at this is absolutely true and this and this gets us into that conversation an interesting way there is no culture that has abandoned its traditional diet that

hasn't gotten sicker so another way of saying that is every single traditional diet no matter what it is every single traditional diet is healthier than the contemporary american diet which is spreading throughout the world the junk food diet the high in animal products diet so to the extent that we can preserve. our our traditions our cullen ari traditions and to the extent we can appreciate each other's company traditions we are going to be eating better again it begins with farming farming is the key to all this because we can only eat what's out there for us to eat so you can see a mediterranean diet a traditional japanese diet a traditional middle eastern thought you can eat those if the food that's in the market is american junk food so it really begins with supply but it's important to

as kelly said to have these cultural changes to respect our cultural traditions and to eat the way that our ancestors ate to the extent that we do that we're going to have healthier diet. i don't know if factual john a history book it's a book about food and it's a book about us and how do we cut where we are in terms of how we trolled affable how we grow our food. samples that will cover at the very beginning of the book about societies that really well with agriculture they were thought to have a i when they over thought it out and. simple a moral that will simply following right now tell us about one of our societies well i mean there are there are many and then you range from summa to roman mesopotamia i mean there are there are many examples but in each in each case there was this historian named that your members 1st name but loudermilk who talked about

agricultural suicide and what he meant by that was societies that were successful they built canals they figured out how to irrigate their lands and yet they overextend that they demanded too much of the soil and when you demand too much of the soil it produces less so the paradox the story of historical paradox is that agriculture allowed and still allows populations to grow when populations grow we demand more of agriculture now with a stabilizing human population which which we know we have it's not expected to exceed 10000000000 and we are able to feed 10000000000 people given the right styles of agriculture with a stabilizing population we can tend to the soil we can use water procreate lee we can use of the resources appropriately and we can have a kind of agriculture that produces healthy food for everybody that's also

affordable for everybody this is obviously a great change a lot of work it's not going to happen overnight but we know what the 1st steps are in getting to that place more in like is. also michael some suggestions not the what do you think about false more insults get rid of foster food get rid of fast food processing and then natural vegetable or not that's the way to fix our food system candid response to marie well i mean i'm with her but but you know we can people say what should we do and you can say get rid of fast food you could say get rid of monoculture you can say get rid of chemical fertilizer you can say get rid of imprisoning animals and what amount to concentration camps you can say those things but those are not the kinds of solutions that are going to happen imminently those are great goals and we hope that within a generation we can get to all of them my question in animal vegetable junk my

question in my life really right now is what can we do in the next couple of years that will show us the way to get to a place where saying things like let's get rid of fast food isn't taken as a joke because i will that i'm all in on that front let's do it but we don't have a czar of food who can say ok we're getting rid of fast food now it's not happening so what do we do to move towards that danielle has. i'm going to run it by will. and i know where you live in the world's climate change can be affecting what you eat in very different rates if you're one of the millions of people whose dietl actually consists of grains such as wheat or rice and you may not be getting as many nutrients as you once used to other crops such as coffee how i become increasingly difficult to grow and so farmers are starting to switch to

more stable crocs that can easily adapt to increasing temperatures and decreasing range. what that means for us less coffee and less chocolate in the future. as an individual something that you can do is start to research where your food comes to know your farmers trying to support farmers that adopts climates like family techniques and treat me as an action as opposed to a staple not that that's all great advice. i'd like to say this there's a lot of there's been a lot of talk and i bet you hear a lot of it this week that the impact of climate change has on agriculture there's much less talk about the impact agriculture has had and is having on climate change

and one could argue that agriculture is the most important or certainly the 2nd most important contributor to greenhouse gases and climate change in the world today for example producing chemical fertiliser alone just that one thing counts for 2 percent of greenhouse gases the methane from industrial animal production accounts for nearly 10 percent of climate change these are big numbers and these are the result of the kind of industrial agriculture that's run rampant 1st in the united states next in europe and now all over the world what shuttles ols on. thank you for being part of the ball shower what she does wants to know how can organic food be more expensive than regular food they seem to be less involved in its production why is it so expensive i want to get you started on i o. getting food all right so i'm going to say organic and then take it away well.

it's more expensive because it's not easier to grow it's more difficult to grow and it's less subsidized so it's what's easy to grow is a 1000 acres of corn with chemicals in soil that's nearly dead by a system that's been proven to work that's pretty easy and doesn't take a lot of technological know how a lot of experience even on the part of the farmer it's what they call stray in play prey you plant the right seeds you apply the right chemicals you use the right pesticides and you have a you have a crop unfortunately it's not a crop that that that builds soil health and it's not a crop that that igs in human health more organic food. would mean planting crops that belong in the in the region in which they're growing better tended more carefully than are. grown without pesticides or without chemical

pesticides that is more complicated but at the same time i want to say that we're gana as it were has lost much of its meaning and that we're gannett junk food is still junk food organic shampoos is not particularly helping the planet what we need in the world that we use now to talk about better farming is agro ecology which is a combination of the words agriculture and ecology honestly and that means farming in tune in harmony with nature farming in a way that appreciates what the earth is giving us and gives what we need to give back to the earth i know this sounds a little we'll but it's actually the wave of the future like when we put. our website there are a couple of questions that we are so have a look here my laptop per child our diets the planet climate is

agriculture pulling up particles that giant questions are quite general but mean a precise who has a question for the gets a whole lot more specific let's have a look. my question for mr bittman is how do we get people to mobilize around this issue where war and how we're trying to get food on the table this is going to require big structural change and calls to eat more sustainably or vote with our forks are well intentioned they're divorced from most people's realities i mean that is that you can get as woman's name which is brilliant yes this is this is the problem it's not a simple your 1st question was can changing our diet plan it sure but most people are not able to change their diet let's look i've been i've been harping on this a little bit i'm going to say it again we can only eat the food that's out there so

what we grow determines to some extent what we eat what we grow and what we process and what we market and what we sell is what we eat so it's 50 or 60 percent and that's that's the range of 50 or 60 percent of the calories produced are in the form of junk food and junk food is bad for us it's hard for us to change our diets so how do we engage people the question this is really not a food question this is a this is a political question because we have many issues facing us as citizens as voters as activists they include climate change income inequality racism gender discrimination immigration issues labor issues all over the place and so on food is one of these food happens to be something that's highs all of those issues together but it's not just a question of changing our diets it's a question of changing our society and we have to do that on all of those fronts

including. so the other question was from dr nina presents is a public health position this this question is from a i'm just looking at the fans and you don't have to pay a vacation but you should know how to think i'll cook likewise if you are going to share. a recipe. recipe for vegan virgins what would it be look i think there is 3 recipes that are the most important recipes in the world and those are rice and beans by which i mean lay goons and whole grains and that's probably the world's most important recipe because legumes are the world's most important protein source and if any grains are the world's most important source of calories so rice and beans is my 1st choice a chopped salad that is take whatever you have child and dress it nicely that's a good choice too. i'm not sure that's convincing somebody who would really like a steak but. you can you can have the diet that you

have now and you get yourself into illness and you can eat the planet into destruction where we can create diets that work for everyone and that works for the planet as you know. that was a bun from up an author of i hope. all right let's talk reaction to the book haley is one from jennifer erickson when i read market men's animal vegetable junk i was compelled by the way he considers justice from an agricultural point of view what's more important than feeding children while teaching them what real food means he writes the sooner we begin to raise children who recognize that coke and snickers don't bring happiness and the sooner we teach children how and by whom food is produced the sooner will stop producing generations of adults who struggle with diet our school district motto is always learning always growing and then spoke inspired me to reach out to our principal and ask to extend our votto to growing

food growing community changes planted one see it at a time maybe our courtyard could be that scene i mean that's an awesome there's no question there but let me reiterate something which is until we raise children who understand what good food is and know where it comes from we're going to be cultivating generation after generation and on healthy adults so if we want healthy 40 year olds we have to teach healthy 4 year olds that's really. good questions have on each of them and just go back to is food waste a big issue for sustainable future how much does energy cost them anything from food waste impact the planet so the concept about food waste how much of our food to we just throw away. well the last estimate is a 3rd 2 to even even more and that is a lot but. you know i like to take iconoclast take positions on and i will not i

would not at all downplay the seriousness or importance of food waste but i'd also like to point out. that what we plant determines what we eat as as i said before and if we are planting some of the best agricultural land in the world this is not just in the united states but in brazil and china and france and other parts of europe some of the best agricultural land of the world is planted in corn and soybeans that are destined to produce junk food i would consider that waste of land we could be growing food to feed people on that land and we're not doing that because of your history of writing about for understandable idolizing for people who look to you for advice and suggestions and for some little step. with a new offer it's. for people who want to rule how do we make our food system data

how do we tackle climate challenge a climate crisis knowing that a food systems a contrapuntal to read such as several achievable goals people can find that on twitter but what goals which is shared with us right now here on the street look i think the most important things we can do right now and again this goes back to something we talked about about 10 minutes ago yes we can say let's abolish junk food or we can say universal healthy free breakfast for all children great weeks we should be doing those things and working towards those things but some things that we can do like right now or get antibiotics out of the food supply 4 fifth's 80 percent of the end of biotechs used in the united states and elsewhere where there's industrial animal production going animals not humans that's predicting bacterial resistance it's breeding resistance to antibiotics it's breeding human disease that's one the 2nd is to enforce existing laws and create new regulations

around pesticides pesticides are well known carcinogens they are engineer do cause death so let's try. either do without them reduce their use or produce safe pesticides we haven't done that the 3rd would be enforce existing regulations and to create new regulations around the industrial production of animals we've discussed that. this is an ethical issue a moral issue obviously it's a health issue and is a health and safety issue for people who work in those in those factories and for people who live nearby those factories where there are high rates of high rates of cancer a couple of other things are reduced the marketing of junk food to children this goes into what we were just talking about a couple minutes ago educating our young people and getting land into the hands of people who've been excluded from land giveaways 'd around the world people who want to farm well who want to produce food that's healthy for the rest of us to eat but

who have been shut out by racism colonialism leo colonialism land grabs and so on just profile a lot because just the very end of the shot i'm just curious about covert carlton and. how it was thought out to the well look awful systems. i think 2 things that cover the 1900 made really clear one is that local food systems work better than international food systems and millions of people have become aware of the value of their regional food system as a result of a covert $1000.00 farmers markets are crowded c s a's are selling out local farmers are doing are doing very well we need more of that obviously it's still a very small percentage of our food supply but it's a percentage that is both more climate resilient and more pandemic resilience and the other thing is that we know that people who have less good diets less healthy

diets are more susceptible to so the complications of coffee healthier people people who eat better do better when they get caught people who we were still worse when they get well but when. he's also the author of. junk food from sustainable to suicidal wow thank you so much for joining us we really appreciate your time and this wraps up in haste episode to all of the strains. now and you can also find more stories at. all that's watching everybody see you next time.

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