Episode 7: Tom Philpott On A Food System In Crisis… and How To Fix It.

Episode #7 Notes1:00 - How did you get interested in food and agriculture?5:45 - Say what? Tom and Errol both organized to save NYC community gardens back in the day.7:00 - Tom, you’ve actually managed a farm - tell us about that?12:00 - How did you end up working at Mother Jones?16:30 - What inspired you to start writing Perilous Bounty?19:30 - Climate change. What is the severity of the risk to agricultural communities in California and the West Coast, specifically?26:15 - The agricultural workers and communities in the Central Valley - how are they fighting to save their communities in the face of climate change?30:30 - How much fruit, veg, and dairy as a percent of national supply is produced in California’s Central Valley?32:30 - Midwest agriculture - what’s being produced in these world class soils, where does that product go, and how does this tie to soil loss and pesticide/fertilizer use?38:00 - Overproduction of food, and how this is related to lower farm income and greater concentration of agribusiness. Tell us about that.41:15 - Monsanto or The Resnick Empire: Who’s more evil? And, how has each company impacted ag policy to their betterment?47:30 - Contrasting these companies, why hasn’t sustainable, regenerative farming taken-off?51:30 - What do we need to fix in our food system to avoid collapse? What practices and policies should be implemented?56:15 - What’s on your bookshelf?Late Victorian Holocaust, Mike DavisThe Death of Ramon Gonzalez, Angus WrightFast Food Nation, Eric SchlosserFood Politics, Marion NestleStuffed and Starved, Raj PatelThe Value of Nothing, Raj PatelThe Price of Peace, Zachary CarterPerilous Bounty, Tom PhilpottThe Monster at Our Door, Mike DavisEcology of Fear: Las Angelas and the Imagination of Disaster, Mike DavisSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.