Tom Philpott and the American Way of Farming
Heartland Stories Radio
English - March 30, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBHealth & Fitness Kids & Family farming sustainableagriculture food goodfoodmovement health kids pesticides publichealth socialjustice sustainability Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Tom Philpott is the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It (Bloomsbury 2020). His work has won numerous awards, including a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Tune in to learn more about:
- His book Perilous Bounty, where he dives into two abundant but very different agricultural areas - California's Central Valley and the Corn Belt state of Iowa;
- Why corn and soybeans do not work for farmers;
- Why farmers love their tractors and the sad truth about the technology treadmill of John Deere;
- What the current pandemic taught the meat plants operators;
- Why the current government should focus on climate change policies;
- How the Midwest could learn to become more self sufficient and rely on a more local and regional food system;
To learn more about Tom's work, follow his blog on Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/author/tom-philpott/.