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#150: Better Food Systems featuring Joel Salatin

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The Answer Is to Not Just Abandon the Ecology

CNN's John Sutter talks to Joel O'Brien about the impact of industrial farming. He says we can fix our food system by building ponds, permaculture and planting trees with back hoes. But it takes 15 calories of energy to put one calorie on your plate, he argues. Do you think large industrial farms are actually aware of what they're doing to the soil? No, I don't think so," writes O'Brien.

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