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Between this kind of formula of heavy-duty export of American agriculture and farm products, as well as a history of food aid in food assistance abroad from the U.S., another thing that sounds great but has some real problems to it, what has happened is the U.S. agriculture system has in many cases flooded foreign markets to the point where they've

decimated local agricultural production.

That was Christopher D. Cook, an award-winning investigative journalist and author of the

acclaimed book, Diet for a Dead Planet, Big Business and the Coming Food Crisis. We go over

quite a bit about policies in this episode in light of the upcoming elections here in the

United States. So if you're curious to hear Christopher's take on it all, you definitely want to

stick around. We're going to talk about things like how our subsidies, trade deals, and policies have incentivized the inefficiencies and nonsensical back-and-forth trades in our modern globalized food system.

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