Mark Bittman is the author of more than 30 books and nearly 200 New York Times op-eds, known both for his cooking tips and his searing critiques of industrial agriculture. This episode we talk about his book Animal, Vegetable, Junk, which traces centuries of cruelty and exploitation to show how our food system got to where it is today. We only cover a fraction of this history in the podcast, but a consistent theme emerges: when food is grown with the primary goal of making money, rather than nourishing people and the land, bad things tend to happen.

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