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UN Rapporteur Submits Groundbreaking Report on Dismantling Industrial Food System
[audio interview] In a direct challenge to the world’s current system of industrial agricultural production, the United Nations special Rapporteur on the right to food, Olivier De Schutter, submitted a ground-breaking report on how to reform the world’s food production to the UN Human Rights Council this past Monday...The report finds a long list of problems with industrial agriculture from its high levels of greenhouse gas emissions to its emphasis on monocultures which reduce biodiversity...GUEST: Raj Patel,...author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System...He teaches a class at [Univ. of California] Berkeley with Michael Pollan called Edible Education, and works with Olivier De Schutter...