Organic Sustainable Foods: Solutions for Health Crisis & Climate Change
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Organic Sustainable Foods Solutions for Health Crisis &
Climate Change
John W. Roulac
Founder & CEO, Nutiva
Co-founder, GMO Inside
Giving Back 1%
• Sustainable Farming
• Food & Environmental Activism
• Trees & Gardens
• Healthy Communities
• Goal of $20M by 2020!
Our Focus
Reports Show 159M Lbs. of Monsanto’s Roundup™ in 2012
Food & Water Watch found that the “total volume of glyphosate applied to the three biggest GE crops — corn, cotton & soybeans — increased 10-fold from 15 million pounds in 1996 to 159 million pounds in 2012.”
Why Exponential Growth in Illnesses?
Since introduction of GMO’s in
1990
Gluten intolerance
Autism
Cancer
Infertility Heart
disease
Auto Immune Diseases
Leaky gut & digestive
issues
FAT = Master Nutrient for Long Term Health
Avoid soy, corn & canola oils
Omega-3 via hemp & chia
Fish has Omega-3, concerns
Olive, coconut & red palm oils
Consume pasture meat & dairy
6 Health Inhibitors
GMO Food
Roundup™ & Pesticides
CAFO’s
Sugar
Toxins & Food
Chemicals
Multi-Screen Living
What is Synthetic Biology?
“Extreme” genetic
engineering
Artificially constructing
genetic material – DNA
Create entirely new forms of life
Ecover & Synbio Algal Oil Not Natural
• Trialed new extreme genetically engineered oil in the UK
• Far from natural or sustainable
Rodale Institute: Down-to-Earth Solution to Climate Change
Sequester 100%+ of CO2
emissions
“Regenerative Organic
Agriculture”
Maximize carbon fixation, minimize loss of
carbon once returned to soil
Reverse the Greenhouse
Effect
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
~50% emitted via agriculture
Largely attributable to animals &
Nitrogen Fertilizers
92.5% of farm & is devoted to animal production
• emits by far the most GHGs
Greenhouse Gases
Just 3 gases account for 90% of all US emissions
Carbon dioxide
CO2
Methane CH4
Nitrous oxide N2O
Humus-sphere
Humus is the stable, long-lasting remnant of decaying organic material & essential to the fertility of the earth.
Photo credit The Guardian
Steps to Strengthen the Humus-sphere
Grow green cover crops
Make compost at
home & farm
Produce Biochar
Cultivate crop
diversity
Grow grass in pasture
management systems
Soil Pool as a Sink for Carbon
The soil pool is the most important sink for carbon but is less than half as effective at storing it than it could be. The same is true for the forests & scrub
lands.
Forests have been degraded or clear cut
Agricultural lands have been degraded or desertified world-wide from poor management & industrial
farming production.
Dr. Rattan Lal, Esteemed Soil Scientist
“A mere 2% increase in
the carbon content of the
planet’s soils could offset
100% of all greenhouse
gas emissions going into
the atmosphere.”
Fertilizer Impacts on Water & Oceans
Synthetic Nitrogen fertilizer is responsible for the nitrate
poisoning of two-thirds of the U.S. drinking water supply.
Synthetic Nitrogen fertilizer is the major cause of the 500 oceanic dead zones around
the world.
Acidification is Destroying Sea Life
Terrie Klinger, Professor of Marine Affairs, University of Washington
“We can attribute the problems in
the oyster hatcheries to the increased carbon
in the ocean.”
Stop the Ocean Genocide
The ocean is the new dumping
ground – making it acidic & endangering
sea life
The REAL Cost of Cheap Food
The cheapest food you can buy is organic
nutrient-dense foods, fresh produce, or
pastured meat, eggs & milk.
You only pay for organic once.
$ Cost of Chemical & GMO Food
1. “Cheap” food at supermarket = down payment
2. Corn, cotton, soy, canola, rice, wheat, & sugar receive 95% of all
farm subsidies = tax time
3. Chronic Disease heart, stroke, cancer, diabetes, & obesity = food
related illness
4. Clean up drinking water, oceans, atmosphere, farmland pollution =
global scale consequences
We (consumer) pay 4 separate occasions for industrial GMO foods