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New World Notes - Why Factory Farming Has Got to Go (First of Two Parts)

06/05/2012 12:00 pm
06/05/2012 12:30 pm

This week on New World Notes: radio program #222, June 5, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m., host Kenneth Dowst excerpts a talk given by writer Michael Pollan.

In an interesting, shrewd, and funny talk, Pollan shows what is wrong with our globalized, corporate-controlled agriculture. And he shows why certain alternatives are sane, practical, and---on a small but growing scale--already in place.

This week, in Part 1, he explains six reasons why factory farming is not only bad but "unsustainable." And he shows why "Whole Foods"-type globalized, corporate organic farming is not much better.

Pollan spoke at The Mondavi Center of the University of California, Davis, in November 2006. Adapted to radio in May 2012 by K.D.

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