Name: Adam Curry on Why "Food Intelligence" Will Become Important
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Adam Curry on Why "Food Intelligence" Will Become Important' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-01-08. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan Experience
You know, coming back to food intelligence,
China right now is hoarding grain.
They supply 60% of the world's grain.
They've been hoarding it for a while actually,
maybe a year and a half, two years.
So we're going to have a shortage, a global shortage.
The meat processors, they're not interested
in really using livestock anymore.
It's just a lot more profitable,
and we're training people.
Oh, now it's an amazing thing.
Is it Burger King?
Someone just came out with new soy nuggets.
We're being kind of pushed into this
and all we know is we put it in our face.
It has the same texture.
It tastes the right way.
And the profits are much better.
So that's where people are starting to reach out and say,
"Well, why don't I go meet a rancher one day?"
And a local processor.
It's not USDA.
They can't get that.
But in Texas, you're allowed to sell your meat directly
without USDA stamp.
One of the few states.
Vegetables, all this stuff.
We're going to have to figure it out
because we're going to have shortages.
I think we're going to have some serious food shortages.
It'll be weird.
Like bread might not show up or something else will happen.
But we're going to have shortages.
Well, we have a bunch of problems, right?
One of the big ones is large population centers aren't self-sustainable.
Entirely not, no.
Yeah, they need food shipped into them.
They need whole foods and HEB.
It's really weird.
If you think about the size of like a New York City, it's enormous, right?
Yeah.
There's so many people.
There's a building.
It's a perfect place because the buildings are stacked on top of each other
and everything is like, like when you're there, you're like, "Wah!"
There's so much fucking energy in this place.
Yeah.
But like nothing's, I mean, very little is getting grown in terms of food.
Nothing.
Very little.
Nothing.
Definitely not enough to sustain it.
No.
So you got to keep shipping things in.
So you got to keep the roads good because you're always just bringing things in
on boats
and bringing things in on trucks.
Everything has to come in.
I mean, one of the cool things about like watching a video about a really good
restaurant
is seeing them going to meet the fish as the fish are coming in off the boats.
Yeah.
Everything has to get there.
Yeah.
Someone's got to deliver something.
You're just going to go to the fish market and get these big crates from
someone way the
fuck away who grew the food.
Well, we used to have a fish market, you know, which became very popular to
live, you know,
in New York.
It literally was the fish market and the shit came in.
The guys were slicing shit up and moving it out in the middle of the night.
It was a dangerous place to be.
Lots of hookers in that neighborhood.
It was cool as shit.
And now it's like, you know, $3 million one bedroom apartments there.
Those are hard men that fillet fish all day.
Oh, yeah.
Those are hard fucking men.
It's very hard.
That is a hard job.
Yeah.
That's a real fucking job.
And you're seeing that too.
You know, kids are looking around and their parents are saying, you know, maybe
not go to college.
Maybe go to vocational school.
Learn to learn to trade.
There's plenty of...
Be entrepreneurial.
Yeah.
Seeing a lot of that.
So you're an optimist.
Always.
Always.
That's good.
Because there's a lot of people that share your perspective that there's some
serious fucking things that are wrong.
And I wanted to talk to them about like the grain thing.
First of all, I did not.
I've never heard the China grain thing.
I only learned it recently myself.
Yeah.
It says, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, China is
expected to have 69% of the globe's maize reserves.
I like how they use the Native American term.
Maize.
It's so...
It's like cinema.
It's maize.
It's not corn.
It's so open-minded.
In the first half of crop year 2022, 60% of it's rice and 51% of it's wheat.
Yeah.
Here's my thing.
You can keep all that shit because it's not good for you anyway.
How about that?
Well, this is another thing.
Can we stop with the rapeseed oil and canola oil already?
That shit's not good for you, right?
That is industrial sludge, brother.
And everyone's cooking with it.
It's in everything.
Yeah.
The market, because it's rapeseed oil, but now we call it canola oil.
The marketing has been fantastic.
Rapeseed is a rough word to sell for health conscious folk.
Have you had any rapeseed?
Well, I feel like it when I've had it, yeah.
There's a well-known fact that there's too much grain in a lot of people's
diets.
Yeah.
In terms of people that eat bread all day and pasta and like, come on.
That's not something you should have all day like that.
Do you use animal fat for cooking?
Yes.
I use beef tallow.
Okay.
Because most people, there was a, I think a psyop basically on the American
people.
Like, oh, that's going to kill you.
You can't have a, you can't use a protein, a beef protein for your fat for
cooking.
Why?
Because they wanted it.
What was the argument?
You just have to accept, people are asking money.
I use avocado oil too sometimes.
It's got a high smoke point.
The answer is money.
It's always money.
It's always money.
Yeah.
I mean, look, it's great stuff.
The rapeseed oil.
And more and more farmers are being incentivized in the United States to grow
the last harvest.
What is, what exactly does those processed seed oils do that's bad to you?
Because there's a lot of people that are like hardcore on it.
Like, Paul Saladino is very hardcore on it.
Rob Wolf's very hardcore on it, I believe.
I hope I'm not misrepresenting his position.
But I think a lot of those guys think you should avoid those kind of fats.
Like those kind of, those processed seed oils.
Well, here's what I know.
The process is number one.
Right.
I've learned this from my buddy, Texas Slim.
That's a great name.
Yes.
Well, and he kind of came out of semi-retirement.
He's a little bit young.
He's about our age, a little younger, to start the beef initiative.
And so he's setting it up so people are getting connected with, you know, just
basically directly with farmers and food.
And, you know, using Bitcoin as kind of the common network.
But more importantly, he's writing and educating people about food.
And one of the most compelling arguments for me, he said, look at pictures of
my, because he's a 12th generation Texan or something.
He said, look at pictures of my great, great grandparents.
How do they look?
You know, they got some shitty ass clothes on, but they look pretty good.
Yeah.
Now, now go to Houston.
How do people look now?
So what's the difference?
The people used to live off of beef in Texas.
You know, it's not a great place to grow, you know, seeds, but we have the
original seeds, the ones that aren't, you know, genetically modified.
The, you know, the cattle manure that fertilized the ground, not using
artificial stuff, you know, whatever you need to hyper grow stuff.
And we look much better.
And now go to Houston.
Everyone's obese.
So, you know, it's got to be at the intake.
It's got to be at the input.
It's not just a sedentary.
It's also lifestyle too.
Don't you think there's a lot of people around here in particular, very active,
a lot of people exercise, a lot of young people.
But people aren't that healthy looking, even in Austin.
It's not all that great.
No.
No, I don't think so.