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

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

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