Downstream: How the Democrats Abandoned Working People w/ Eric Schlosser

About this episode

Ash Sarkar interviews Eric Schlosser about the changes in the food industry since the publication of Fast Food Nation and the ongoing issues related to workers' rights and social inequality.

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, Ash Sarkar talks to Eric Schlosser 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?

People in this episode

Host: Ash Sarkar

Guest: Eric Schlosser

Topics covered

• food industry
• workers' rights
• agricultural systems
• dietary health
• migrant workers
• social inequality

Keywords

• food industry
• workers' rights
• Fast Food Nation
• agricultural systems
• dietary health
• migrant workers
• social inequality
• marijuana edibles

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Fast Food Nation

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