5. Respect The Earth

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“Americans have become less and less knowledgable about where their food comes from and how it’s grown. So, if people wanted to respect this earth, they should be purchasing food that has been grown with respect to the earth.” —Ed Stockman, Cofounder of Regeneration MA who has been an organic farmer for 47 years.
AGRICULTURE IS CAPTURED BY GREED
Right now, the EPA, FDA, and USDA are the government organizations responsible for our food production. Unfortunately, these agencies have been captured by industries who only care about their profits. The agro-chemical, biotech, energy, and pharmaceutical industries are all very influential in these federal agencies. It is a huge problem that will not be solved in the halls of government, but must be addressed directly by consumers: We the People! Global corporations have captured the policy agenda for agriculture and they must be stopped from further damaging the environment.
REMOVE THE CO2
What is raising the global temperature of the planet is the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02). By educating consumers to reject products in the marketplace that produce a lot of greenhouse gases (i.e., Monsanto), we can not only reduce greenhouse gases, but actually remove greenhouse gases (C02) from the atmosphere. According to the United Nation’s Panel on Climate Change, capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide (C02) from agricultural soil is a way to restore soil health while returning carbon levels to those prior to the Industrial Revolution.
REGENERATION WILL REMOVE CO2
Regenerative agriculture practices improve soil quality, increase biodiversity, improve the water cycle and increase resilience to climate change. Healthy and fertile soil is the key to agriculture in the 21st century. Earthworms are an indicator of healthy soil that is produced by inexpensive organic management practices. These include recycling as much organic farm waste as possible (composting), crop rotation, reduced tillage, cover cropping, and well managed grazing.