Best of 2023: American Agriculture Is about Money, not Food / Alan Guebert

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🗓️ 13 December 2023

⏱️ 92 minutes

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The Best of 2023 continues with our October interview with Alan Guebert who had just posted the The Baffler Magazine article, “Farmed Out: American agriculture is about business, not food.” Plus, a Moment of Truth with Jeffrey Dorchen and your answers to the week's Question from Hell! Check out Alan's article here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/farmed-out-guebert Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	I'm going to go. The Lord is with the Wuthi.
0:15.0	The Lord is with the
0:16.0	bless our power
0:18.0	and the Lord has What the Yeah. This is hell.
0:40.0	hell. Chris, you know what I just realized?
0:47.0	What is it?
0:49.0	This box of Kleenex I've been using over here for the last year and a half.
0:52.0	It's now almost empty. I stole this from the hospital.
0:56.0	I'm calling the cops on.
1:00.0	It's as bad as tearing the tag off the mattress.
1:04.7	Exactly.
1:05.7	Exactly.
1:06.7	I just find it hilarious because I was like, where the hell did I get this box of Kleenex
1:11.2	from? And that was a year and a half ago so it lasted
1:16.3	live from late capitalism where we know the price of everything but the value of
1:20.3	nothing this is how we are continuing.
1:24.7	Our this is how best of 2023 series with a conversation on exactly that, the U.S.
1:29.9	obsession with the bottom line over everything else including feeding people.
1:36.4	The morality of feeding others can be found in many religions.
1:40.2	In Jewish doctrine, God commands us to share our bread with the hungry and bring the homeless into our
1:46.3	house. It also insists on a commitment to helping the hungry person amongst us. In Christianity, the story of Jesus feeding the 5,000 appears in all four
1:55.4	Gospels. Human generosity and faith is part of the miracle. Jesus takes what's
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