EP 733 Follow Up to Food, Inc. Looks at New Developments in Fixing a Broken System

 

America’s food system is broken, bringing harm to family farmers, workers, the environment and our health.  But it doesn’t have to be that way and the new documentary and companion book “Food, Inc. 2” provides plenty of approaches to reclaiming a more natural and sustainable way to feed  America.  It’s all a follow on to the highly acclaimed and impactful documentary project, “Food, Inc.” which got Americans attention back in 2008.  It posed penetrating questions about food processing, agribusiness, affordability, and the nutritional content of our food system.  “Food, Inc. 2” picks up the story to see what changes have occurred in this span of time.  There is good news like advances in lab-grown meat to better treatment of food workers of all types in the wake of the pandemic to a growing food-sovereignty movement–yet the industrialized food system we’ve built, call it Big Food, clearly remains dominant, crowding out the concept of family farming as a rule.  Joining us to discuss the sequel is Karl Weber, editor of the companion book.

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