A farmer sprays pesticides on grape vines.

You are What You Eat: How the Industrial Food System is Affecting You

Midday on WNYC | Jun 19, 2018

Kristin Lawless discusses her book, Formerly Known As Food: How the Industrial Food System Is Changing Our Minds, Bodies, and Culture, which looks at how pesticides and GMOs are changing not only our food, but also our bodies. From deteriorating nutritional content to the addition of thousands of chemicals from pesticides, Lawless argues that our bodies are literally changing from the inside out.

This segment is guest hosted by Duarte Geraldino. 

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