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M hmm. If

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you're alive, you eat, and

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if you're humane, you've

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likely confronted empty store shelves and

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supermarkets and become a lot more curious

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about where and how your food is produced.

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Maybe you want to build a more ethical food system

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and better understand the origins of your food.

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For example, did the chickens

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you eat walk free? Or

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maybe you've gotten overwhelmed and tuned

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out four stories about factory farms

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and soiled too depleted to provide nourishment.

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But it's time to tune back in because

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the future is up to us and our

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choices matter. This is the

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moment to join the revolution in farming

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and food. To me, the

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future of farming is indigenous.

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I'm hoping ten years in

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the future that will have more

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conversations about how agriculture

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is connected to our

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democratic principles. The future

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of farming is directly connected to the future

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of bio diversity, the future of justice,

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and our future. Welcome

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to the Future of X from AUSI Media. I'm

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Isabella Lee, a writer with AUSSI. Last

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year, I fell in love with farming while working

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on my family's cattle ranch and working for a

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generative farms Each

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season of the Future of X gives us a

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glimpse into what might lie ahead. From

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healing eroded soils. As plants

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develop, they can end

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up returning that carbon directly to

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the soil through their roots. To understanding

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how our food choices impact what and

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how we grow. What are we going to do? Seventies

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some percent of the species

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lives in cities, how do we

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get the food there? And the ways big data

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could transform the lives of those who put

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food on our tables. If we want to have a

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future of farming that is driven by

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data that we can trust and rely upon, then

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we need to involve the produces

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of the day DA, not just the producers of

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food. To how commercial agriculture

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has compromised food security. These

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destructive agriculture practices

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that are actually you know, releasing all these

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nutrients that we need to

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maintain for soil health. Seed

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by seed and meal by meal, we

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help sustain a food system that can heal

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or harm us. The choices we

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make today create the conditions for

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the feasts or famines of tomorrow. So

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pull up a seat at our proverbial table and

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listen to the future of AX on Apple, Spotify

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or wherever you get your podcasts, A

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lot goes into an honest day's work.

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At Vital Farms, their purpose

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is to bring ethically produced food to the

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table, and they believe that pasture

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raising animals is the most humane

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and sustainable way to achieve that.

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That's why Vital Farms partners with nearly

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two hundred family farms, helping

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them to rotate their pastures and do right

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by the land. Because helping the land

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helps the hens, which helps the eggs,

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which helps you. Vital

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Farms, where honest food is

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raised