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 119: Organic: All It's Cracked Up to Be?
Episode 118: The Dead Zone: Runoff in our Waterways
Episode 117: Past Due: The Farm Bill
Episode 116: Big Chicken
Episode 115: (Not So) High Times
Episode 114: Eating NAFTA
Episode 113: A Small Word After All
Episode 112: SNAP Software Snafu
Episode 111: Got Milk?
Episode 110: Taste The Future
Episode 109: How to Feed the World
Episode 108: A Conversation with Deb Eschmeyer
Episode 107: Water, Water Everywhere
Episode 106: Nudge, Nudge
Episode 105: Interview with Jillian Hishaw, Founding Director of F.A.R.M.S.
Episode 104: Hemp on the Horizon
Episode 103: SNAP Decisions
Episode 102: Reaping What We Sow
Episode 101: Magic 8 Ball
Episode 100: Rotten
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