Sep 7, 2026 · 36 min · 12 segments
Chef Doug McMaster explains how the food we eat can reconnect us with nature, from regenerative farming to zero-waste living and healthier systems. Food is one of the most powerful ways we connect…
Doug McMasterGuestKatrina RidleyHostAmy ChapmanHostUm, I was gonna ask, are there any examples of systems in nature that have in- inspired you in terms of human systems? Is that like a plant or an animal thing?
And all over the world, there's a couple of exceptions there, but ultimately it's this k- a herbicide that we're spraying all over our food system.
It's water-soluble, which means it's in the water, in the rain, and it's of course carcinogenic.
And, um, as somebody who's lost my entire family to, to cancer, um, it made me dig pretty deep into where is this cancer coming from? How have we gone from 1 in 30 to 1 in 3 in 60 years? And if you map, and I have mapped this out, the, um- The rise of cancer incidents with the rise of glyphosate, you can see a per-
[laughs] But there is a significant correlation there that shouldn't be ignored, and it is in our food system.
And it, it, you know, in every supermarket that isn't labeled organic, you know that it's there in, in great numbers.
And it's sprayed to kill chemicals, and it was ironically born with this title, The Green Revolution.
You know, this, this belief that, you know, in a post-war, um, civilization, there was this boon of, um, food production that was super efficient, helped by this chemical, um, that was labeled The Green Revolution.
And, um, looking, looking closely at the body and how the body operates and, uh, ultimately inspired by understanding, um, our physiology and how much, how just perfectly closed loop it is, you know.
The, the book that I'm working on is called There Is No Bin in the Jungle, uh, which I think is a f-
Um, I was gonna ask, are there any examples of systems in nature that have in- inspired you in terms of human systems? Is that like a plant or an animal thing?
And all over the world, there's a couple of exceptions there, but ultimately it's this k- a herbicide that we're spraying all over our food system.
It's water-soluble, which means it's in the water, in the rain, and it's of course carcinogenic.
And, um, as somebody who's lost my entire family to, to cancer, um, it made me dig pretty deep into where is this cancer coming from? How have we gone from 1 in 30 to 1 in 3 in 60 years? And if you map, and I have mapped this out, the, um- The rise of cancer incidents with the rise of glyphosate, you can see a per-
[laughs] But there is a significant correlation there that shouldn't be ignored, and it is in our food system.
And it, it, you know, in every supermarket that isn't labeled organic, you know that it's there in, in great numbers.
And it's sprayed to kill chemicals, and it was ironically born with this title, The Green Revolution.
You know, this, this belief that, you know, in a post-war, um, civilization, there was this boon of, um, food production that was super efficient, helped by this chemical, um, that was labeled The Green Revolution.
And, um, looking, looking closely at the body and how the body operates and, uh, ultimately inspired by understanding, um, our physiology and how much, how just perfectly closed loop it is, you know.
The, the book that I'm working on is called There Is No Bin in the Jungle, uh, which I think is a f-
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