Host Jenna Liut interviews author Benjamin Lorr to talk about his new book, “The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket,” which delves into what it takes to get food onto grocery store shelves and who suffers the consequences of our increasing demand for cheap food and efficiency. Lorr pulls back the curtain on a notoriously secretive industry, interviewing people at every level – from the founder of Trader Joes to truck drivers transporting products to trafficked migrants in Myanmar and Thailand at the bottom of the commodity chain. This book is an absolute must read for anyone interested in our food system.
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Episode 80: Betting the Farm
Episode 79: Good Food Purchasing with Paula Daniels
Episode 78: 2016: A Year in Review
Episode 77: Mark Bittman. Period.
Episode 76: Food System Six
Episode 75: Food wast(ed)ucation
Episode 74: Let Me Be Me – Food Marketing and Regulation
Episode 73: FERN and Farmland
Episode 72: Tricks Are For Kids: Marketing Food To Children
Episode 71: Interview with Sam Kass
Episode 70: First Bite With Bee Wilson
Episode 69: Farm to Table 101
Episode 68: Weight, You Too?
Episode 67: All Pumped Up: Antibiotics in Meat
Episode 66: Is Butter a Carb?
Episode 65: Grilled Cheese With A Side Of Social Justice
Episode 64: Forbidden Fruit?
Episode 63: Gold Standard: Brazil's Food Policy Progress
Episode 62: Unintended Co(r)nsequences
Episode 61: Global Food Security Act
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