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  1. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of Americaโ€™s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workersโ€™ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.
    โ€‹
    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about whatโ€™s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate โ€“ and America eat โ€“ without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isnโ€™t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and โ€˜Make America Healthy Againโ€™
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  2. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of Americaโ€™s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workersโ€™ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.
    โ€‹
    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about whatโ€™s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate โ€“ and America eat โ€“ without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isnโ€™t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and โ€˜Make America Healthy Againโ€™
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  3. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of Americaโ€™s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workersโ€™ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.
    โ€‹
    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about whatโ€™s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate โ€“ and America eat โ€“ without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isnโ€™t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and โ€˜Make America Healthy Againโ€™
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  4. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of Americaโ€™s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workersโ€™ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.
    โ€‹
    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about whatโ€™s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate โ€“ and America eat โ€“ without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isnโ€™t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and โ€˜Make America Healthy Againโ€™
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  5. youtu.be/vwoI-1z_edo

    'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of Americaโ€™s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workersโ€™ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.
    โ€‹
    On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about whatโ€™s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate โ€“ and America eat โ€“ without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?

    02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
    06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
    08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
    12:37 Updating #Marxism
    15:47 Social Justice Isnโ€™t Inevitable
    18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
    24:54 Racism in America Today
    28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
    31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
    34:00 RFK and โ€˜Make America Healthy Againโ€™
    38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
    45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
    47:40 The Power of Boycotts
    52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
    57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
    1:01:30 On Pornography
    1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

    #NovaraMedia #Video

  6. @CharredStencil
    > All I've heard is that the economies of scale are powerful, and small farms are disappearing.

    That's the agri-corporate PR line, yes. From what I've read (eg #JohnRobbins, #MichaelPollan, #EricSchlosser, #RichardHeinberg) in the US it's less to do with economies of scale, and more to do with massive federal and state government subsidies to industrial monocrops and their associated businesses (poisons, biotech etc), and a regulatory environment heavily slanted in their favour