February 17, 2025

Food facts are not the answer to fear of foods

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“What kind of food system do we want for the future? What kind of questions should we be asking? Whose questions matter? What kind of questions matter and what kind of expertise is considered relevant to the question of what the future of food should be like?”

A new book -- Real Food, Real Facts: Processed Food and the Politics of Knowledge -- takes a close look at people’s concerns about processed foods and how the food industry has failed to respond to them. Industry want to reassure consumers on questions of safety and risk, so they will then buy and eat its products. People want answers to questions beyond safety and risk. And never the twain shall meet.

Listen to my conversation with author Charlotte Biltekoff.

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