jd 🌍🇪🇺🇭🇺🚀 & 👍🇺🇦🇵🇸+🇮🇷🇨🇺“We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
– Aesop
I cannot verify he actually said this, it might be #AISlop
Wait, what?
AI Slop rhymes with Aesop!
Coincidence??! I think no.
'In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health.
On Downstream this week, #AshSarkar talks to #EricSchlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food?
02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation
06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre
08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists?
12:37 Updating #Marxism
15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable
18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes
24:54 Racism in America Today
28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders
31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic
34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’
38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich?
45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America
47:40 The Power of Boycotts
52:23 The Legalisation of Weed
57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food
1:01:30 On Pornography
1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants
