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The Billion Dollar Lie Behind "Healthy" Food

18 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Ian Somerhalder argues that the food system is designed to fail us. The U.S. spends $447 billion on diabetes while transferring $80 billion overseas in farm subsidies that prop up the wrong crops. He connects personal stories to a call for systemic change in how we grow and sell food.

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Why are we sending $80 billion of American farmers money overseas? If everyone was healthy, we'd be out of business, but everyone would be healthy. I could go find another job. You need two things to get through your day. You need to feel good and you need. From starring in hit TV shows to leading a movement for soil regeneration, Ian Somerhalder is on a mission to heal the planet. He shares how food, farming and policy can shape our future. We wonder why there's chronic disease. We wonder why people have skin issues, mental health issues. It's just the system is set up for us to fail. Happy, healthy people build happy, healthy societies by making happy, healthy choices. We spent $447 billion on diabetes, over a billion dollars a day. So I produced a show about a virus that destroyed the world right as Covid happened. And the day I walked out of Netflix, proving my case of why the show should keep going, the next day the whole world shut down. If you ever really want to change the world, start a non profit, start a for profit that feeds all of those necessary nonprofit. This one little word that I realized that we're all searching for. It's the one word that can set you free. That word is.