The Food System Is Not Broken

Headshots of Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg — Jan Dutkiewicz (left) and Gabriel Rosenberg

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A lot of people who care about these things will tell you that the food system is broken. Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg insist that it is not. Bits of it may not work as well as we might like, but overall it delivers greater abundance, diversity, and nutrition at a lower cost than at any time in history.

They argue the point at length in their new book Feed the People! Why industrial food is good and how to make it even better. Dutkiewicz and Rosenberg write engagingly and the book is a good read. And for those bits of the food system that are not working so well, they offer plenty of evidence-based recommendations that could help fix them.

Notes

Feed the People! is published by Basic Books.
How the New Food Pyramid Fits Into the Broader Conservative Project is their nuanced look at the vexed topic of food guidelines in the United States.
Gabriel Rosenberg has a newsletter, The Strong Paw of Reason, and there’s more of Jan Dutkiewicz’s work at The New Republic.
Here is the transcript.
Banner photos of the authors by Tim Atakora and Harris Solomon.

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Good interview. Hearing a lot about this book. Industrial food certainly here to stay. The real problem is us the eater. Many of my fellow Americans enjoy the taste of unhealthy food. They want too much meat on the plate. And too much sugar and too much salt. Hard to see how that’s going to change Any time soon. Short of an aggressive food police. Or an AI revolution.