Saturday, May 16, 2020

Michael Pollan explains the food system's response to COVID-19

In nybooks.com. Excerpt: "The food system we have is not the result of the free market. (There hasn’t been a free market in food since at least the Great Depression.) No, our food system is the product of agricultural and antitrust policies—political choices—that, as has suddenly become plain, stand in urgent need of reform."
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