Category: Video

Rachel Botsman, co-author of the recently released What’s Mine is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption, spoke at the recent The Feast Conference about the …

“Cheap food is cheat food.” Raj Patel hones in on what it means to have corporate monopolies that can manipulate both price and supply, coupled with a free market philosophy that hijacks government oversight and public protection, where the price of something bears little relation with its true value.

Good Food is everybody’s business. How is it then that the goodness of food eludes us? The modern food industry has made food cheap and plentiful; disguising the true cost.

Have you ever wondered why a bunch of carrots costs more than a package of Twinkies?

The Cost of Food is a recording of Raj Patel’s keynote at the College of the Atlantic’s food conference Food for Thought, Time for Action: Sustainable food, farming and fisheries for the 21st century, October 2009.

On his first assignment, our Northeast correspondent Richard Romano surveys the Natural Products Expo East trade show and conference. During his trek through the aisles, …