This week I’m joined by Sam Kass on The Doctor’s Farmacy to discuss how many government policies are contributing to our broken food system and the many ways we can get involved to create change. This is a topic near and dear to my heart, I hope you’ll tune in.
Sam Kass is the former Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition in the Obama administration. After cooking for the Obamas in Chicago for two years, Sam joined the White House kitchen staff in 2009. During his White House tenure, he took on several additional roles including Executive Director of First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move!” campaign and Senior White House Policy Advisor for Nutrition. As one of the First Lady’s longest-serving advisors, he helped the First Lady create the first major vegetable garden at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden.
Currently, Sam is a Partner at Acre Venture Partners. Acre is a venture capital fund investing in the future of food with a mission to improve human and environmental health in the food system. The fund focuses on early-stage, highly disruptive impactful companies in the food system focused on agriculture, supply chain, and consumer. Sam is also the author of Eat a Little Better: Great Flavor, Good Health, Better World.
The vast majority of soy is actually grown specifically for animals (about 80 %)
I feel like healthy food isn’t really that expensive. You can get produce pretty cheap. Bulk dry beans and rice is dirt cheap. The issue is laziness. People like buying prepared foods. Packages of microwavable pre-cooked beans and rice, packaged of pre-washed and diced veggies, etc – that stuff will add up in cost quite quickly. But if you just stick to non processed whole foods, you can EASILY afford healthier choices.
Rice and beans are both unhealthy foods. They contain starches that raise blood sugar and Insulin. Beans contain Lectin Proteins that cause allergic response in many people.