Why There’s No Simple “Solution” to Food and Agriculture Issues

Food historian, thought-leader, and writer Julie Guthman talks to Mark and Kate about how so many of the tech "solutions" behind industrial animal production are narrow-minded; why the arguments around alternative meat don't add up and what the entrepreneurs behind it don't understand; and the real resource use comparison between pasture raised meat, factory farmed meat, fake meat, and cell meat.

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