Mark Bittman on Reckoning with Industrial Agriculture and Reclaiming a Healthy Future
Michael Krasny talks with food journalist and author Mark Bittman how to transform our agricultural systems to reclaim a healthy, just future.
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Show Notes
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.
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