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This is Fresh Air. I'm Tanya Mosley.

Sixteen years after Food, Inc.

Investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, along with best-selling author Michael Pollan,

are back with Food Inc 2, a sequel to the documentary that sparked a national conversation

about the economic, environmental, and health impacts of our industrialized

food system. Food Inc. 2 focuses on corporate consolidation, which Schlasser reports gained steam during the pandemic.

He's been reporting for years on how a handful of companies now control our nation's food system,

stifling competition in ways not seen, he says,

since the great trust and monopolies of the late 1890s.

His latest article for the Atlantic titled,

Do we Really Want a Food Cartel?

Delves into how mergers and acquisitions have created a market that is

inefficient, barely regulated, unfair, and even dangerous.

Schlasser has written several books including Fast Food Nation, Reefer Madness, and Command and Control.

Eric Schlosser, welcome back to Fresh Air.

Thanks for having me.

Well you and Michael Pollan initially didn't want to do a sequel to Food Inc.

Is that right? Yeah I mean we both have written about food and then moved on to other subjects and

you know I liked the film Food Inc I think it

had an impact and I think it was what very well done by the director Robbie Kenner and

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