Tamar Haspel on Food Costs, Animal Welfare, and the Honey Bee

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🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Tamar Haspel, who writes "Unearthed," a column on food and agriculture at the Washington Post, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about a wide variety of issues related to the cost of food and how it's produced. Topics discussed include why technology helps make some foods inexpensive, how animals are treated, the health of the honey bee, and whether eggs from your backyard taste any better than eggs at the grocery.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.1	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:18.1	links and other information related to today's conversation.
0:21.0	You'll also find our archives where you can listen to every episode we've ever done
0:25.2	going back to 2006.
0:27.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:30.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.6	Today is June 28, 2017, and my guest is Tamar Haspel.
0:38.6	She writes the unearthed column at the Washington Post.
0:41.9	It's a monthly commentary as it is described in pursuit of a more constructive conversation
0:47.4	on divisive food policy issues.
0:50.5	She also farms oysters, and on Cape Cod, Tamar, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:54.8	Thanks, Russ.
0:55.8	I'm glad to be here.
0:56.8	We're going to start, we're going to talk about a number of food issues today, based on
1:00.8	some recent columns you've written, and I have to say almost every one of them is interesting,
1:05.0	which is unusual for me.
1:06.8	That's interesting.
1:07.8	Not everybody would agree with you.
1:09.8	No, of course not.
1:10.8	Of course not, but that's why I'm the host.
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