Can we eat our way out of the climate crisis?

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🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Do my food choices really matter? What about solutions like composting? In this installment of Burning Questions, NYT’s food journalist and best-selling cookbook author Priya Krishna is in conversation with restaurateur and founder of Zero Foodprint, Anthony Myint, to chat through the personal and structural changes we can make to our food choices to better the climate.

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0:00.0	Lately, lots of us are upset about capitalism.
0:04.8	We cannot separate capitalism from racism.
0:08.4	Market capitalism is not a religion.
0:11.4	You'd have to be a fool to worship it.
0:13.3	I am so sick of living in a capitalist society.
0:16.3	Blame capitalism, a series airing Fridays in September
0:20.1	on Today Explained.
0:22.1	Everyone's talking about capitalism
0:25.9	and they all seem like they're bad.
0:30.2	Hey everybody, I'm Amy Scott, host of How We Survive.
0:38.2	And I'm really excited to bring you this installment of burning questions
0:42.3	because it's all about one of my favorite topics, food.
0:45.5	Today we're featuring food journalist Priya Krishna.
0:48.8	She's a writer at the New York Times and has written several cookbooks,
0:52.2	including Indian ish about her family recipes.
0:55.8	And today she's in conversation with Anthony Meant.
0:59.1	He is the co-founder of Mission Chinese Food
1:02.1	and the executive director of Zero Food Print.
1:05.4	Zero food print is a nonprofit that's focused on agricultural climate solutions,
1:10.7	including something called regenerative agriculture.
1:14.2	Something Anthony is very passionate about.
1:16.7	It's really cool because it focuses on healthy soil.
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