The System That Feeds Us | Jan Dutkiewicz | Ep. 79

About this episode

This episode discusses the achievements and critiques of the industrial food system with Jan Dutkiewicz.

The industrial food system is often treated as a symbol of everything people distrust about modernity: too processed, too corporate, too artificial, and too detached from land and labor. That critique obscures one of the greatest achievements in human history: modern food production has made food cheaper, safer, more abundant, and more varied than ever before. In this episode of The Human Progress Podcast, Adam Omary speaks with political scientist Jan Dutkiewicz about his new book Feed the People: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How We Can Make It Even Better . They discuss the great achievements of the industrial food system, the panic over processed foods, nostalgia for preindustrial agriculture, and how to make food healthier and more sustainable without giving up the system that feeds us.

People in this episode

Host: Adam Omary

Guest: Jan Dutkiewicz

Topics covered

• industrial food system
• modern food production
• processed foods
• sustainability
• agriculture

Keywords

• industrial food
• food production
• processed foods
• sustainability
• agriculture
• food safety
• food abundance

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: HumanProgress.org

Books & works: Feed the People: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How We Can Make It Even Better

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