Series
Toward a Plant-Based Food System
Jun 17, 2024
9:00 - 10:30 AM PDT
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Presenter: Jan Dutkiewicz, Assistant Professor, Pratt Institute
Jan Dutkiewicz is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Science and Cultural Studies at the Pratt Institute and a Contributing Writer at Vox. He has written about the politics of food for The New Republic, The Guardian, The Washington Post, WIRED, and The Wall Street Journal.
Toward a Plant-Based Food System
A growing scientific consensus points to the need to shift to a predominantly plant-based diet in the interests of planetary and public health. But why exactly? And what should and could a plant-based food system look like? What are some of its challenges and drawbacks? This talk sketches out the big science and social science questions around large-scale shifts in food production and consumption and also the contours of what a more sustainable food system might look like.