Ep6. Plant-based - planet friendly or unnatural?

Planet friendly eating or going against our nature?

 

 

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Part 7 - Where do we go from here     (6 minutes)

 

 

Jan Dutkiewicz, policy fellow at Harvard Law, returns to talk about the scale of the challenge of getting people to change their diets, the aggressive pushback from the meat industry, and how the humble bean can be a building block for a better food system.

 

 

Speaker

 

Jan Dutkiewicz is a political economist with a particular focus on meat and other food products and a geographical focus on the United States. His two current primary projects are a monograph about the politics of American corporate meat production and a co-authored trade book envisioning a more just and sustainable food system.

 

 

Section resources

 

Summary report: Eat-Lancet (2019)

 

Article: The Vegan Protesters Spilling Milk in Supermarkets Are Right (Jan Dutkiewicz, 2022)

 

Article: How Do You Convince People to Eat Less Meat? (Jan Dutkiewicz, 2021)