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
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Super people deserve super foods. For Nutiva, it starts with organic, non-GMO farming—done without chemical pesticides or fertilizers. Our pure superfoods provide vital nutrition while accelerating the organic food movement. Serving as catalysts, innovators and pathfinders, we inform and inspire, offering thoughtful solutions to planetary challenges. As these ideas take root, communities everywhere are strengthened. We’re B Corp and Green Business certified, holding ourselves accountable to sustainable principles by reducing our carbon footprint, becoming a zero waste facility, and donating 1 percent of our sales. Join us in raising the bar for social and environmental responsibility. Together we can ensure a vibrant future by revolutionizing the way the world eats! Nutiva. Nourishing People & Planet.
Transcript of Organic Sustainable Foods: Solutions for Health Crisis & Climate Change
Organic Sustainable Foods Solutions for Health Crisis &
Climate Change
John W. RoulacFounder & CEO, Nutiva
Co-founder, GMO Inside
Author
Revolutionizing the Way the World Eats
100s of Organizations Funded
GMO Inside Rodale Institute EcoFarm Common
Vision
With a Goal of $20 Million by 2020
Over $2 Million Donated to:Sustainable
Farming
Food and Environmental
Activism
Trees and Gardens
Healthy Communities
Nutiva Gives Back 1%
ORGANIC SUPERFOODS
Movie Coming 2015
Wellness Is Driving The Food Revolution
What’s in our food?
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
InfertilityHeart
disease
Auto Immune Diseases
Leaky gut & digestive
issues
America Needs an Oil Change
Grain-fed spike Omega
6 levels
Pasture-fed Omega 6 & 3 are
balanced
Importance of Omega-6 to Omega-3
Ratio impacts:
Brain
Heart
SkinCellular
Hormones
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
Organically managed soils
can convert carbon CO2 from a greenhouse gas
into a food-producing asset
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
A CAFO Near You!
3 Carbon Sink Drivers
Atmosphere
OceansHumus-sphere
Humus-sphereHumus 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
Plant trees
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
Stop Buying Non-Organic Industrial & GMO Foods – Why?
Destroying our
oceans!
Not a land planet
We are a
water
planet
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
What do we do?
Grow or purchase Organic
Stop our addiction to Nitrogen Fertilizer
Reduce meat/dairy consumption by 50%+
Switch from CAFO to pastured-based
Increase local food production
Select nutrient-dense vs. empty-calorie foods
Pay it forward & share this knowledge
