Food Rights Network

Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

March 25, 2013

On Monday, March 18th, 2013, WORT 89.9 FM “A Public Affair” host John Quinlan interviewed Wenonah Hauter, the director of Food & Water Watch. Hauter was in Madison to speak that evening at the Goodman Center at an event hosted by the Food Rights Network, a project of Madison’s Center for Media and Democracy.

Hauter recently published the book Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America, a ”tour de force” (Publishers Weekly) that examines farming at the turn of the 20th century until today and details the consolidation of the food chain from crop seeds to retail stores to argue that the people who grow our food, and consumers, have been cheated and manipulated by agribusiness and the leading food companies. She explores how the evisceration of anti-trust laws has dramatically increased consolidation among food and agricultural firms, which, along with the growth of big box stores and the marketing of junk food, has perverted how food is sold and marketed and what people eat.

In Foodopoly, Hauter also calls attention to the inherent cruelty to animals in confined animal feeding operations and the pollution of the environment that is part and parcel of the factory farming of cattle, hogs and chickens. She challenges the biotechnology advances that have led to the genetic modification of food crops and exposes large-company practices that are changing the organic food industry.

Listen to more about Foodopoly from Wenonah Hauter here:

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