This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, how to make America's food system better.
Over the past few months,
we've been bringing you the voices of experts who are thinking
about how to fix big problems in this country.
We heard Ezra Klein's ideas on how to fix politics,
Emily Oster's ideas on how to help working parents,
and Franklin Leonard's suggestions to make Hollywood a better place.
Today, we turn to a problem so entrenched, so big,
so part of everything we do and are as a country, our food, our food system is fundamentally broken.
We produce food that is optimized for profits, not quality.
Yes, we make a lot of food, but so little of it is good for us,
and a lot of it is actually making us sick, and it does huge harm to the planet.
For so long, we've been told that food and diet are personal choices.
But when you look at the scope of industrial agriculture in America,
you'll see that that just isn't true.
It makes things feel insurmountable.
That's food writer Mark Bittman, because you're.
Not, oh, how do we get little kids to eat fewer candy bars or whatever?