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Mark Bittman on Reckoning with Industrial Agriculture and Reclaiming a Healthy Future

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4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Food journalist and author Mark Bittman explores the history of humankind’s relationship to food in his latest book, "Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal,” and argues that the development of agriculture has shaped today's public health, climate change and social justice crises. Bittman believes that agriculture requires a cultural and political reckoning with how it has "driven exploitation and injustice, slavery and war” to tackle the damage it’s caused. Bittman joins us now to talk about his latest book and how to transform our agricultural systems to reclaim a healthy, just future. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. From KQED'm Michael Krasti. Coming up, food journalist and author Mark Bittman on his new book,

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Animal, Vegetable, Junk, a history of food from sustainable to suicidal. Bidman was a food columnist

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at the New York Times for 30 years and is now a special advisor on food policy at Columbia University's

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Mailman School of Public Health. He joins us to speak about his new book and what it will take to transform our food systems

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for a healthier, more just world.

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Then at 940, Fame Barrier author Isabella Iende's forthcoming book, The Soul of a Woman,

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is a personal account of her experience as a feminist.

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She'll join us to preview the book and we'll get her thoughts on finding happiness in a time of pandemic.

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That's all coming up next after this news.

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Welcome to this morning's forum. I'm Michael Krasny.

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Food journalist and author Mark Bidman

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