Chloe Sorvino: Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat

Species Unite

elizabeth novogratz

Society & Culture, Philosophy

5 • 911 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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“There was a farmer who I met. He had the craziest [story], but not crazy because it's happening everywhere. A hog horn rammed into him and he got a disease. No one had any idea what it was. He went septic. He almost died. And he figured out that his herd had gotten an antibiotic resistant bug because of the way he was farming.” – Chloe Sorvino

Chloe Sorvino leads coverage of food and agriculture as a staff writer at Forbes. She writes the newsletter, Mind Feeder, and founded the Forbes newsletter Fresh Take.

Chloe is also the author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed and the Fight for the Future of Meat, an exposé into the power and corruption of America’s meat industry.

Nearly a decade of reporting at Forbes has brought her to In-N-Out Burger’s secret test kitchen, drought-ridden farms in California’s Central Valley, burnt-out national forests logged by a timber billionaire, and Costco's rotisserie chicken slaughterhouse in Nebraska. Sorvino serves as a steward on the Forbes Union unit council. Her work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, Fast Company, the Financial Times, the New York Times, New York Magazine, Civil Eats, Modern Farmer, Salon and many more.

Chloe Sorvino: https://www.chloesorvino.com/

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0:00.0	Species,
0:07.0	species.
0:09.0	Unite, unite.
0:12.0	There was a farmer who I met had the craziest but not crazy because it's
0:18.4	happening everywhere a hog horn rammed into him he got a disease disease no one had any day what it was. He went septic, he almost died,
0:26.9	and he figured out that he has heard had gotten an antibiotic resistant bug because of the way he was farming.
0:35.0	Hi I'm Elizabeth Novigrats. This is Species Unite. We have a favor to ask if you like today's episode and you have a
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0:50.9	Podcast or wherever you listen to Podcasts. It really helps people to find the show.
0:57.0	This conversation is with Chloe Sorvino.
1:07.0	Chloe leads coverage of food and agriculture at Forbes.
1:10.0	She writes the newsletter Mindfeeder and founded the Forbes newsletter Fresh Take.
1:15.0	She is also the author of Raw Deal, Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed,
1:19.0	and The Fight for the Future of Meat.
1:21.0	Everyone should read this book. It's deep dive reporting into the
1:25.2	power and corruption of the meat industry and how that affects how and what Americans
1:30.5	eat. Chloe, hi, thank you for being here. This is awesome. Oh, it's awesome to be here. I have a lot of questions. I have a lot of questions. I want to talk about your book. Your book came out a couple years ago.
1:54.8	Mostly it's about how we got where we are with Big Ag at the meat industry and
2:02.0	and I thought I knew really like I mean I think everybody has this vague notion of like it's really bad, it's really scary.
2:09.6	Our food systems not sustainable.
2:11.3	Everything's gonna fall apart.
2:12.4	We watched it fall apart.
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