Episode 19 - Toxic Health Culture

School of Self Improvement

Toxic Health Culture is the damaging extremes that clever marketing has pushed us to. We are "sold" solutions that prey on our fears and give us false hope. Toxic health culture is all about fear and hope in equal measure - teas to help us lose weight and products that promise us fast weight loss.

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What is destroying our topsoil and environment is the mass production of mono crops. They destroy biodiversity above and below the soil. Contrast this with cows, which actually build up topsoil and increase biodiversity - see the Knepp rewilding project in Sussex https://knepp.co.uk/home In addition, grazing cows REDUCE CARBON. You can also read this study https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/study-white-oak-pastures-beef-reduces-atmospheric-carbon-300841416.html

When cows eat grass, just like they do in the wild, they cause the grass to dump carbon into the soil. This is because the grass has a symbiotic relationship with the soil fungus, providing it with sugar - a 6-carbon molecule - in exchange for micronutrients. This means that the grass is sequestering carbon from the atmosphere and creating up to a foot of topsoil/year. If the earth's grasslands were covered in cattle, it would completely reverse climate change in our lifetime.

Here is a short ted talk which shows the power of putting MORE cows into an environment to reverse desertification https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change?language=en

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