Who Really Owns Food?
07/30/20 • 16 min
Tom chats with food and agriculture journalist Leah Douglas about the role of corporate concentration in the food system. Since April 2020, Douglas has mapped outbreaks of COVID-19 among workers at meat packing and meat processing plants across the nation. They discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought longstanding concerns around health and safety in meat processing plants to light.
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Tom chats with food and agriculture journalist Leah Douglas about the role of corporate concentration in the food system. Since April 2020, Douglas has mapped outbreaks of COVID-19 among workers at meat packing and meat processing plants across the nation. They discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has brought longstanding concerns around health and safety in meat processing plants to light.
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Citizen Chef with Tom Colicchio - Who Really Owns Food?
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So before the COVID crisis, a lot of Americans and politicians spent a lot of time shouting down the facebooks of the world and big tech and big banks and demanding that we break them up. At these these companies have become powerful monopolies, and they essentially still and threatened our privacy by using our data without our our permission, and they threaten our financial security. But you know, it took a global public health crisis to turn ou
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