(2012/11/11) Time to eat your mutant vegetables (Food)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 12 November 2012
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Summary
Edition #661
Time to eat your mutant vegetables
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Vegetarian By 2050? You Might Not Have A Choice - The Young Turks - Air Date: 08-31-12
Ch. 3: Song 1: Cheeseburger In Paradise - Jimmy Buffett
Ch. 4: Act 2: 1 in 3 Adults Obese, But Levels No Longer Rising - David Pakman - Air Date: 01-23-12
Ch. 5: Song 2: What I am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Ch. 6: Act 3: Mickey Check, Mouse Approved Food - CounterSpin - Air Date 06-14-12
Ch. 7: Song 3: Mickey - Toni Basil
Ch. 8: Act 4: Bloodthirsty Undead Ghoul Advocates Chocolate Cereal Consumption - The Onion
Ch. 9: Song 4: Let's call the whole thing off - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Ch. 10: Act 5: Eating Bugs To Save The World? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 06-29-12
Ch. 11: Song 5: The walls are coming down - Fanfarlo
Ch. 12: Act 6: Rush Limbaugh's Clueless Food Rant - Majority Report - Air Date: 06-01-12
Ch. 13: Song 6: Jerk it out - The Caesars
Ch. 14: Act 7: 8-Year-Old Forced To Eat Organic Macaroni And Cheese - The Onion
Ch. 15: Song 7: I am not a farmer - Bill Frisell
Ch. 16: Act 8: These Organic Cons Missing The Point - CounterSpin - Air Date: 9-14-12
Ch. 17: Song 8: Jack names the planets - Ash
Ch. 18: Act 9: Is Monsanto Evil? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 09-22-12
Ch. 19: Song 9: Sing for your supper - The Mamas & The Papas
Ch. 20: Act 10: You Won't Believe What You're Eating Right Now - Lee Camp - Air Date: 09-26-12
Ch. 21: Song 10: Food, Glorious Food - The London Theatre Orchestra and Cast
Ch. 22: Act 11: General Mills Sued: "100% Natural" Nature Valley Bars, Not Natural - Majority Report - Air Date: 08-07-12
Ch. 23: Song 11: Bread and butter - The Newbeats
Ch. 24: Act 12: Organic subsidiaries out their parent conglomerates - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 10-12-12
Ch. 25: Song 12: Family ties - TV Themes
Ch. 26: Act 13: Genetically Modified Shrieking Broccoli Toned Down - The Onion
Ch. 27: Song 13: Animal crackers in my soup - Shirley Temple
Ch. 28: Act 14: Genetically Modified Food Label Initiative Failing - Why? - The Young Turks - Air Date: 11-01-12
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show, for details visit |
| 0:08.6 | the membership tab at bestableleft.com. |
| 0:10.6 | Now, welcome to the award-winning best-of-the-left podcast with Cups Today from the Young Turks, |
| 0:14.8 | the David Pakman Show, Counter-Spend, the Onion Radio News, the Majority Report, Comedian |
| 0:18.6 | League Camp, and Jim Hightower. And remember, you can have dessert, but only after you finish |
| 0:23.0 | the entire episode. |
| 0:29.9 | There is going to be a severe food shortage in this country because of the drought that we're |
| 0:34.2 | facing. And as early as 2050, we might have to become vegetarians because of the fact that it's |
| 0:40.8 | just going to take too much water to farm cattle. Now, this is disastrous news, especially |
| 0:48.4 | because there are a number of different factors that are at play. First of all, you have |
| 0:52.5 | the growing population. I know, Jenk likes to argue that growing population isn't really that |
| 0:57.3 | big of a deal, and we'll find a way to deal with it. But because of the growing population, |
| 1:01.2 | because of climate change, we are going to have to fight for resources. So, according to the |
| 1:07.1 | leading water scientists, humans derive about 20% of their protein from animal-based products now, |
| 1:12.5 | but this may need to drop to just 5% to feed the extra 2 million people expected to be alive |
| 1:19.5 | by 2050. There will not be enough water available on current crop lands to produce food |
| 1:26.3 | for the expected 9 billion population in 2050 if we follow current trends and changes toward |
| 1:31.7 | diet, common and western nations. Look, we can hope that after 2050, it'll go down. I've seen |
| 1:38.3 | some projections that they think that it will level off and go down, but it's difficult to make |
| 1:42.0 | those predictions. We don't know what will happen. People didn't know that China's population |
| 1:46.4 | would grow as quickly as it did over the last 50 years if you went beyond 50 years ago, and there |
| 1:50.0 | might be other regions of the world that if they become more economically developed, they could |
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