Rethink: The Food Dimension.
The Food Programme
BBC
4.4 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
As part of the BBC's Rethink series Dan Saladino asks how we can create a better food future for all in a post-Covid world. Among a cast of experts and activists offering their visions of the future are Microbiome expert and geneticist Professor Tim Spector focuses on diet, nutrition and the lessons learnt during the pandemic. Community cook Dee Woods addresses concerns over poverty and how disadvantaged communities can get better access to food.
Produced by Dan Saladino.
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| 0:45.0 | Hello, you've downloaded a podcast of BBC Radio Falls, The Food Program. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm Dan Saladino. |
| 0:52.0 | Welcome to our world. From cooking to culture, politics to pleasure. |
| 0:57.0 | We hope you enjoy this edition. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to the Food Program, The Place for Hungry Minds. |
| 1:07.0 | In what seems like a different world in a different time, which is approximately four months ago, we as a nation were facing some big |
| 1:14.8 | questions about the future of our food. Climate change was being recognized as the |
| 1:19.7 | major issue for agriculture with it being a leading cause and victim, obesity and type-dew diabetes |
| 1:26.6 | were proving to be stubborn adversaries for our health, and Brexit with the prospect of new trade deals within and without the EU |
| 1:35.0 | was creating a new wave of nervousness in the food industry. |
| 1:39.0 | And then, well, COVID-19 happened, |
| 1:42.0 | and this virus has given us a new insight into how well our food system |
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