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 60: Nature's Perfect Food
Episode 59: Raising the Bar: What Makes Fine Chocolate Fine
Episode 58: Vote Hemp
Episode 57: Let's Talk About SNAP, Baby
Episode 56: Aeroponics & AeroFarms
Episode 55: Strike A Pose
Episode 54: Coverage of the Good Festival
Episode 53: Living Wages for Farmers
Episode 52: Wage Wars: Saru Jayaraman & Restaurant Work
Episode 51: The House Starts a Food Fight: Update on CNR
Episode 50: Genetic Modification Nation
Episode 49: Conversation with Will Rosenzweig
Episode 48: Bob Martin, Director of the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Episode 47: From Farm to Canal Street
Episode 46: Campus Hunger
Episode 45: Millennial Madness
Episode 44: Alan Sytsma, editor of Grub Street
Episode 43: Food Startups with Derek Denckla, Ethan Brown, and Alex Sorenson
Episode 42: Aquaculture: All That Fishy?
Episode 41: Soda Policy: What’s on Tap
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