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Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities - Charles Massy


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A Community Radio documentary I made in 2018, based on an interview with Charles Massy, Author of "Call of the Reed Warbler, a New Agriculture, a New Earth" and others involved in regenerative agriculture and public health. 

In the middle of a global pandemic, when apparently healthy people are succumbing  to the disease, and others not, could it be the difference lies in the quality of the food they eat?  Food scientists have been warning for years that modern fresh foods have a fraction of the vitamins and minerals they had at the end of WW2. On top of that the processed foods bare little resemblance to what our biome's recognize as food. 

To fix a problem you have to address the cause. Could it be that with our reliance in high tech solutions we have missed the root cause of the current dilemma? In an economic system driven by advertising, the commercial media has been asleep at the wheel, not questioning the products produced by their major advertisers? In 5 years time, it could be that we look back at this period of history when the pharmaceutical industry is promising "get the jab so we can get back to normal",  and find the claim as laughable as the claims of old tobacco advertising? 

WA Agriculture Minister Alannah MacTiernan has read Charles book and embraced regen ag, ad discussed in my conversation with her.

Other conversations on related subjects are with Ken Bailey , Vanya Cullen , Graeme Sait , Ian & Di Haggerty  and Colin Seis

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