The Food Industry

Do we really know what we're eating? Do we know what it took to get to this point? Join us as we journey from the Columbian Exchange to the Age of Industrialization to the crazy diet fads of today and stop to learn about the people who were left behind and left out as one of the most vital resources for life became a commodity and an industry.


Check out the following links for more information:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121026-human-cooking-evolution-raw-food-health-science 

http://www.foodsystemprimer.org/food-production/industrialization-of-agriculture/ 

https://www.eater.com/2019/1/25/18197352/american-farming-racism-us-agriculture-history 

https://thecounter.org/usda-black-farmers-discrimination-tom-vilsack-reparations-civil-rights/ 

https://blog.ucsusa.org/karen-perry-stillerman/big-food-companies-spend-big-money-in-hopes-of-shaping-the-dietary-guidelines-for-americans 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat 

https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/7/10726606/2015-us-dietary-guidelines-meat-and-soda-lobbying-power 

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2015/from-corgis-to-corn-a-brief-look-at-the-long-history-of-gmo-technology/ 

https://skyterrawellness.com/history-of-dieting-part-2/ 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rebuilding-the-food-pyramid/#:~:text=After%201992%20more%20and%20more,complex%20carbohydrates%20good%20for%20you. 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/13/how-covid-relief-bill-aims-to-help-socially-disadvantaged-farmers/4637103001/