#14: How do we improve America’s agriculture system?
In Episode 14, Quinn (Brian abandoned him) asks himself: How do we improve America’s agriculture system?
On the mic, Emily Cassidy, the Sustainability Science Manager at the illustrious and beautiful California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, and a leading member of their new climate action initiative, Planet Vision.
Emily's the co-author of a highly cited paper called “Solutions for a Cultivated Planet”, investigating how to sustainably feed 9 billion people.
Today we put Emily’s long background in natural resources science to use and discuss the steps America, and Americans, need to take to improve our food system, and make it healthier. For the air, for the land, for the water, and for each of us, inside our bodies.
Also: Jane Goodall, and cow farts vs. cow burps.
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Links:
Emily Cassidy on Twitter
PlanetVision on Twitter
California Academy of Sciences
PlanetVision
JANE documentary
Netherlands greenhouses
Added Sugars on the new nutrition label
Michael Pollan on how to eat: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
BBC: Most nutritious foods
Trump’s Book Club: A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
Quinn Emmett on Twitter
Brian Colbert Kennedy on Twitter
Intro/outro by Tim Blane
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