Support our work: http://novara.media/support Buy Novara Media merch: https://shop.novaramedia.com/ Discuss the show on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Novara/_Media/ Sign up for the new Downstream Newsletter here: https://novaramedia.com/newsletters/the-downstream-newsletter/ In 2001, Eric Schlosser published Fast Food Nation: an investigation into the toxic depths of America’s food industry. Twenty five years later, the book remains an urgent intervention, as much for what it says about workers’ rights as for our agricultural systems and dietary health. ​ On Downstream this week, Ash Sarkar talks to Eric Schlosser about what’s changed since 2001, and what remains unreformed. How have we developed one food system for the rich and another for everyone else? Could the food industry operate – and America eat – without migrant workers? And did Eric foresee that marijuana edibles would become the new fast food? 00:00 Intro 02:39 The Origins of Fast Food Nation 06:52 Putting Workers Rights at the Centre 08:55 Should We Still Be Marxists? 12:37 Updating Marx 15:47 Social Justice Isn’t Inevitable 18:56 The History of Food Industry Strikes 24:54 Racism in America Today 28:04 A Day With Bernie Sanders 31:22 Meat Packing During the Pandemic 34:00 RFK and ‘Make America Healthy Again’ 38:44 Is Healthy Food Only for the Rich? 45:34 How Corn Subsidies Are Destroying America 47:40 The Power of Boycotts 52:23 The Legalisation of Weed 57:59 Cannabis: The New Fast Food 1:01:30 On Pornography 1:06:39 America Is Nothing Without Migrants

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