Today’s episode focuses on the systematic "paywall" that the food industry has created in order to keep their excess food hidden. Overproduction is a feature of our food system, but keeping that food inaccessible is how price points remain high and continuing growing. How do corporations manage all this excess without letting it impact their profit margins? Guest Josh Lohnes guides us through the operations of Fe*d*ng America, the organization that partners with all major food producers and distributors to help make this possible. 

Joshua Lohnes is a broadly trained human geographer well versed in theories of development, political ecology,  and food studies. He serves as a research assistant professor in the department of geology and geography at WVU advancing questions related to agri-food systems governance with an emphasis on the political economy of nutrition assistance programs.