Sustainable Food for Your Health and Wallet

The world's emerging economies are becoming wealthier, creating stronger demand for the earth's agricultural resources (among others). As food demand increases, Americans are now finding themselves paying higher prices for their staple diet necessities at the grocery checkouts.

At the same time we are becoming increasingly aware about the numerous diseases and adverse health effects that can all be attributed to the food produced by the industrial agriculture system. From the fruits and vegetables drenched in chemicals and pesticides to the animal protein products that are built using DNA altering growth hormones and chemical doused feed grains, the supply chain of chemicals all have a final resting place in our stomachs and never truly leave our bodies.

As Americans, we need to invest in our health (the government doesn't seem to want to!). This blog intends to be an information portal into the global agriculture systems and how our health depends on it.

I have been an agricultural commodity analyst, trader, and strategist at global macro hedge funds and investment firms for my entire career and grew up on a farm just 30 miles north of Boston. My passion for food and sustainability began growing up on the farm, and later by assessing the global agriculture markets where the more I learned, the more I realized the importance of the earth's agricultural systems in our society. More importantly, I learned the direct link between the health of the land that grows our food and the health of the human population that relies on it.