Why We Need To Pay Our Farmers More

In some countries, they pay the farmers to restore the environment. They call it paying for ecosystem services.

Exactly. Farmers can play this amazing role, but we are stuck in a system that does not allow them to do it. In fact, the government will punish you if you change from corn and soybeans to growing real food.

Yeah, it's true. I mean, in Costa Rica, they pay the farmers for putting carbon in the soil, for farming in a way that holds water in the soil, for farming in a way that restores biodiversity and brings back pollinator species. They actually pay the farmers for that. happening in various areas around the world. Because we have to actually look at the true cost of what's going on. And the ecosystem services that we use up around the world is like $124 trillion. That's more than the global economy. And what if we just sort of flipped it on its head and said, hey, why don't we start paying for restoring the environment instead of extracting all these resources from the environment? We can actually make food that's better for us, make food that's better for the animals. I mean, treat the animals better and actually restore the ecosystem and be more profitable.

Yes.