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The United Nations estimate that more than 90% of the farmer's varieties have disappeared from the farmer's fields in the last 100 years. Rabbits, they took them, probably colonialism. It affects every aspect of our life. It affects the climate, it affects the economy. Bringing this awareness to the people means changing the way they behave today for a better future. Eat more vegetables, that's for sure. Stop eating processed foods. You want a cookie? I have had a passion for food and cooking it from childhood. As a food designer, I study the interaction that humans have with food and the cultural influences that surround it. So for us to understand what our food landscape could be in 10 or 20 years, we would have to go back and trace our past and to do that, we will have to look at recipe books. One such recipe book that I treasure are the books that my grandmother left back. What sparked my interest was the fact that it had a lot of ingredients and vegetables that I did not know of. I hadn't seen them in my lifetime. I had to find out why these vegetables were not present in the kitchens or why these vegetables were not present in the market. There has to be a reason to it. My name is Sangita Sharma. I work on sustainable agriculture. I travel the length of the breadth of India to understand where the food equation was gone wrong. Why were we having to consume pesticides? And this search took me across villages, farmers and that's when I understood that wherever I went, the farmers did not have access to their own legacy of seeds, their heritage of seeds. Seeds is the missing link. Seeds do not belong to the farmers anymore. They belong to a handful of multinational corporations. How can we lose these indigenous varieties that are a heritage? For us to find out the answers to these questions is very important. Only then we can prevent from such patterns repeating in the future. We have over something like 29 varieties of lettuces and about eight varieties of basil. Most of these varieties will not be seen in supermarket shelves because this food heritage is getting lost every day. This whole chain is controlled by a handful of corporations. It would be sad to see such vegetables being presented in a museum saying that these species went extinct. We must safeguard the indigenous varieties of not just India, but across the globe. We are blessed because we are connected with farmers across the nation who are growing crops without chemicals. And here today, we support them by providing them the know-how we help them save their ecosystems seeds so that they can propagate them and safeguard those varieties that are being lost every day. As I speak, 200 species are getting lost. Who's held responsible for that? For me, working with food is extremely satisfying. Some of these traditional vegetables, they can be shown how good they can taste when they are cooked in the right way. I am extremely inspired by the work that Sangita does. If we don't have such seed walls and banks, these seed varieties would just get lost. But to bring these seeds to use, we will have to start cooking with them. I discussed with my mother and we said, okay, let's do a hundred days challenge where each day we cook with one of the under-recognized vegetables. There's a lot of engagement and they started contributing. The biggest surprise that I had was that a lot of them were right around us, like the pumpkin flowers or the moringa flowers. You know, if you forage for them, you can find them in your street, in your garden. The notion that anything that you cook with has to come from the market or it has to be packaged in a fancy packaging. You know, it's hard for us to accept that anything that grows around you that is edible can be cooked with. So here we have frucuma and onions. These are all the avocado, 12 varieties of brinjal is sown. We have chilies, fennel, basil, 15 varieties of tomatoes that are sown here. This is carrots, parsley. There's rosemary there. Everything is here. In just two acres, we showcase our diversity as rich as over thousands of varieties. Oh wow. And if today we are reaping abundance, it's because we respect the soil. We respect our planet, our earth. Seed cannot belong to a handful of multinational corporations. Seed is a gift of life to life itself. She's the Indian Bernie. The seeds cannot belong to a handful of 1% of the corporations. That's right. Give them back to the farmer. And let the farmer have them. I agree, Indian Bernie. Burn down all the factories and replace them with farmland. Bernie's the best, man. I love Bernie. That should have a different title, man. Also, I would love for them to go over some of the vegetables that aren't in... I mean, they did a little bit, but a little bit of the forgotten vegetables that they're growing. Specifically, he had mentioned, he was looking at his grandma's cookbook and she was mentioning vegetables and recipes that he had never heard of. What are they? Yeah, I would love to know. What are those recipes? How do they taste? This is a wonderful introduction to this issue. Didn't know there was such an issue. I did. I live with my wife, who is obsessed with plants. They have an indoor garden. Yeah. She gets it from her father and he gets it from his father. They're both very agricultural. They're not farmers, but they have farmland. Green thumbs. Yeah, green thumbs. She grew up. Her dad would walk down the road and be like, ask Stephanie and her other sisters, but Stephanie really took to it. Like, what plan is that? And so she was always able to recognize different kind of things. And her mom always tried to cook healthy and all that kind of stuff. So she's always been about that. And so my wife's always been about native plants, not bringing anything that's not native to where we live into... She'd do good in Australia. No, yeah. It's so funny because I saw a TikTok. And it was about this guy talking about how detached we in America are from our food. And because he saw somebody... No, he saw, I think it was a mom and a kid that were around an orange tree and the kid picked off and he was gonna eat the orange and she's like, no, no, no, you can't eat that. And the guy was like, why? And she's like, it's not from the store. Like, some people are so stupid. They don't even realize where food comes from. No, it's true. And how it just grows in the tree and that is probably better than what you're getting at the store. Or even you have mentioned this before, where I remember when I was teaching because I was around teenagers all the time with these kinds of topics of conversation would come up. And I'd point out, I said, you know, they got, they were appalled, some were very appalled that I had gone deer hunting. And I said, well, we eat the meat, we don't do it for sport, we eat the meat. Oh, how many of you eat meat? So the majority of them raised their hands. How many of you've killed an animal? One raised their hands. And I said, you guys have a disconnect. And you think the anesthetized pink, you know, wavy meat in the plastic thing, you think that's meat and missed the fact that what it took, same thing. I sometimes, and John and I, I've always been this way, but I'll get, depending upon the day, I can get emotional walking into the grocery store to see the overflow of produce that's just sitting there at my whim to just grab and take. And also, we're really dumb in terms of not just what we eat, but what we think is healthy because we just assume that something says it's organic, that it's a better thing to eat. Yeah, no, we're very disconnected to what our food is. And we do have food here as well that has gone extinct, really. And similar to this where it's just not produced anymore. Well, and we do things like strip white rice of its husk and I think it's better because it's brown when you actually have a dietary profile of it is actually worse now. There's just so many things. And this, I love, I can tell how important this is to her. I mean, this is her cause, this is her life. She looked like the famous Indian actress, what's her name? She was in Tenant. Oh, yeah. What's her name? Dang it, I know who you're talking about. Very famous, been around forever. We've seen a few of her films. What's her name? I don't remember, but Dimple Kapati. Yeah, she reminded me of Dimple. Isn't? Is that Nessia's wife, I think? No, I don't. Am I crazy? Anyway. Anyways. Yeah, I would really love to know what those vegetables were. And I would also like to know, I assume based on what she was saying, that industrialization has hit pretty much every continent. I would assume it's an issue there, like it is here because it's an extraordinarily huge issue here. Oh yeah. Of who controls the food. Here, it's Bill Gates. Okay, you didn't know that. Largest owner of farmland in America. There's basically, it's Bill Gates. I think there's, it was five and it's now three companies that control 90% of America's food. It may still be five. No, Bill Gates is in fact the largest owner of farmland. The other thing that boggles my mind is the foods that are popular and they're just nothing but poison for you. They're absolute garbage, but they're some of the most popular things that Americans buy and eat all the time. You look at them, and packaging as well, the waste in packaging is off the charts. Are you saying America's a waste roll? Wow, rude. Anyways, let us know your thoughts on this if there's other videos, if you know anything about this, obviously please let us know. Yeah, I would love to learn more. And my wife already probably knows about it. 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