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The History Of Our Food System: What\u2019s Wrong And How To Fix It | This episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Thrive Market, and Athletic Greens\nWhat do wealth inequality, chronic disease, climate change, and the industrialization of agriculture all have in common? The answer is food, and more specifically our food system.\xa0Very few people are able to connect the dots between some of the world\u2019s most pressing issues in a way that lets us see the big picture. My guest on today\u2019s episode of The Doctor\u2019s Farmacy, Mark Bittman, is someone who does exactly that in an effort to achieve a different future for food.\xa0\nMark Bittman is the author of thirty acclaimed books, including How to Cook Everything and the #1 New York Times bestseller, VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health... for Good. He was a New York Times columnist for more than two decades and has hosted four TV series, including the Emmy-winning Years of Living Dangerously. He is currently on the faculty of Columbia University and is the editor in chief of the blog The Bittman Project, and his most recent book is Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal.\nThis episode is brought to you by Bioptimizers, Thrive Market, and Athletic Greens.\nRight now you can try Bioptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough for 10% off, just go to bioptimizers.com/hyman and use the code HYMAN10 at checkout.\nThrive is offering all Doctor's Farmacy listeners an amazing deal. You will receive an extra 25% off your first purchase and a free gift when you sign up for Thrive Market. Just head over to thrivemarket.com/Hyman.\xa0\nAthletic Greens is offering Doctor\u2019s Farmacy listeners a full year supply of their Vitamin D3/K2 Liquid Formula free with your first purchase, plus 5 free travel packs. Just go to athleticgreens.com/hyman to take advantage of this great offer.\nHere are more of the details from our interview:\n\nAnswering the question, what would a good food system look like? (9:29)\n\nLooking back at the development and resulting consequences of our agricultural system (11:17)\n\nTracing today\u2019s wealth inequality, food industrialization, and monocrop culture back to the agricultural pursuits of the nineteenth century (18:27)\n\nMaking measurable, incremental change to improve our modern food system (29:43)\n\nWhat individuals can do to improve our food system (32:26)\n\nThe cost of failing to name that we are in a national food crisis (33:34)\n\nIs Big Food rethinking its role in our food system? (38:29)\n\nIncentivizing regenerative agriculture, nationally and internationally (40:46)\n\nImproving national food policy (48:08)\n\nThe link between agriculture and climate change, and the role of animal production in climate change (50:30)\n\nLearn more about Mark Bittman at https://www.markbittman.com/ and get his new book, Animal Vegetable Junk: A History of Food, From Sustainable to Suicidal at https://www.markbittman.com/book-covers-descriptions/yd23vsv00b8bbc0c5rupl6fzq5ofka.\nAccess Mark Bittman\u2019s newsletter The Bittman Project at https://www.bittmanproject.com/.\nFollow Mark on Facebook @markbittman, on Instagram @markbittman, and on Twitter @bittman.\nArticles referenced:\nLong-latency deficiency disease: insights from calcium and vitamin D https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14594776/\nParadigm Shift: The End of \u201cNormal Science\u201d in Medicine\nhttps://drhyman.com/blog/2010/12/21/paradigm-shift-the-end-of-normal-science-in-medicine/\n\n \nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices