Interview with Ronnie Cummins of Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International by Kamea Chayne, Green Dreamer: “In this podcast episode, Ronnie sheds light on his path to building a grassroots movement of millions of organic consumers; why he views fake foods, such as fake meat, as a false solution to our broken food system; how this new regeneration movement can help to unify our varied siloed movements focusing on different aspects of our social and ecological crises; and more. To start, get a glimpse below into the conversation between Ronnie and Green Dreamer Podcast’s host, Kamea Chayne. When people ask what regenerative food and farming is, the simplest way to explain it is that it’s the next stage of organic food and farming. There was already a tradition of taking care of the soil, not using environmentally destructive chemicals, appreciating biodiversity, and allowing animals to exercise their natural behaviors in organic farming. But when we first started the modern organic movement, we didn’t understand a lot of things about the soil and about forests and about the climate crisis that we know now. We need to transform, in the U.S., several hundred million acres, where we’re growing genetically engineered corn and soybeans for factory farms, back to what they were before the European settlers came—prairies and grasslands. Prairies and grasslands can only be converted away from row crops and chemical-intensive agriculture with a cooperation between the farmer, rancher, and the animals… the way the buffalo roamed, the way the wilder beasts roamed in Africa, the way that the keystone species we used to have in the U.S. like beavers and prairie dogs. We had a very healthy ecosystem back when Native Americans were the stewards of the land. We’ve caused an amazing amount of damage since then, and we’ve got to get these landscapes back to their natural, carbon-sequestering, fertile state.” Listen here ➡️ bit.ly/40aT710

Building a Grassroots Movement for the Regeneration Revolution ➡️ bit.ly/3MuctL7 🌿 (Interview With Ronnie Cummins of Organic Consumers Association and Regeneration International)