215) Christopher D. Cook: How our subsidies and trade deals enabled the broken globalized food system
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Kaméa Chayne
4.8 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Christopher D. Cook is an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the acclaimed book, Diet for a Dead Planet: Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis.
His writing has appeared in Harper's, The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, Mother Jones, The Economist, The Nation, The Christian Science Monitor, and many other national publications.
In this podcast episode, Christopher sheds light on how our subsidies, trade deals, and policies have incentivized the inefficiencies and nonsensical back-and-forth trades in our modern, globalized food system; why politics can actually be very unifying when we examine the real issues that the majority of the people are facing today; and more.
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| 1:06.7 | Between this kind of formula of heavy-duty export |
| 1:10.2 | of American agriculture and farm products, |
| 1:12.9 | as well as a history of food aid in food assistance abroad from the U.S., another thing that sounds |
| 1:19.5 | great but has some real problems to it, what has happened is the U.S. agriculture system has, in |
| 1:25.5 | many cases, flooded foreign markets to the point where |
| 1:29.0 | they've decimated local agricultural production. |
| 1:35.3 | That was Christopher D. Cook, an award-winning investigative journalist, and author of the |
| 1:40.9 | acclaimed book, Diet for a Dead Planet, Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis. |
| 1:46.6 | We go over quite a bit about policies in this episode in light of the upcoming elections |
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