I doubt I'll be convincing anyone to listen to this and with the topic being factory farming the issues are already familiar to most here. But it was the most informative thirty-five minuets I ever heard on the American food industry.
In the interview Mr. Kirby sums up industrial farming and the broken American food system with a vivid description of the conditions he has witnessed as an investigative reporter. One of the hazards of his work being manure flu. He points to the contamination caused to our air, land, water, and ourselves by factory farms. Did you know that MRSA kills more Americans today than AIDS?
They discuss the many people who are fighting to restore sustainable farming practices and some of the reasons our elected officials seem so powerless, those powerful business interests behind large-scale factory farms. But he is far from pessimistic, some stalls and some signs of progress while stressing that we need to do more than vote with our forks. We need to stay on top of elected officials with constant letter.
If you can find the time, here is the interview page (where you can leave comments) and here is the audio;
