Food, Inc. 2

An eye-opening guide to how America feeds itself and an essential companion book to the new documentary America’s food system is broken, harming family farmers, workers, the environment, and our health. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Here, brilliant innovators, scientists, journalists and activists explain how we can create a hopeful new future for food, if we have the courage to seize the moment. In 2008, the award-winning documentary Food, Inc. shook up our perceptions of what we ate. Now, the movie’s timely sequel and this new companion book will address the remarkable developments in the world of food—from lab-grown meat to the burgeoning food sovereignty movement—that have unfolded since then. Featuring thought-provoking original essays from: Michael Pollan • Eric Schlosser • David E. Kelley and Andrew Zimmern • Senator Cory Booker • Sarah E. Lloyd • Carlos A. Monteiro and Geoffrey Cannon • Lisa Elaine Held • Larissa Zimberoff • Saru Jayaraman • Christiana Musk • Nancy Easton • Leah Penniman • David LeZaks and Lauren Manning • The Coalition of Immokalee Workers • Michiel Bakker • Danielle Nierenberg This book is the perfect roadmap to understanding not only our current dysfunctional food system, but also what each of us can do to help reform it. Kelley and Andrew Zimmern on how ocean-spawned “blue foods” can help the planet as well as human health; Labor organizer Saru Jayaraman on how we all benefit when food industry workers are empowered; David LeZaks and Lauren Manning on financing a fairer economic system for ecologically conscious farmers; Food justice activist Leah Penniman on the connections between racism, farming, and food insecurity; Nancy Easton on delivering healthy food to America’s schoolchildren; Christiana Musk on the future of sustainable and plant-based meat; Larissa Zimberoff on big tech’s quest to change what we eat; Google’s Michiel Bakker on what it will take to reform the food industry ecosystem; Lisa Held on the damage that factory farming did to one small town It is the perfect roadmap to understanding not only our current dysfunctional food system, but also how we can envision and execute a brighter future for food.