Some critics argue that structural racism exists in many pillars of American society like the criminal justice system, politics and education.

Dr. Rich Pirog, the director of The Center for Regional Food Systems at Michigan State University, says that The US Food System has structural racism as well.

For the past two years Pirog and his colleagues have collected articles, studies and journals for an annotated bibliography on structural racism present in the US food system, now on the fifth edition.

Pirog talked about the origins of this structural racism, new efforts to address it and much more.