Diet for a Hungry Planet - Focus on Food
Diet for a Hungry Planet is a program that takes classic story ingredients from The Current and cooks up a fresh new view of how our world eats. Our host is Anna Maria Tremonti.
Episode 1: Too Few Staples
From food sold for fuel, to food prices fueling a food crisis. Be it corn or wheat or rice, too few staples cause too much concern over who gets to eat, what gets eaten, and how much it should cost.
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Episode 2: Michael Pollan
Author Michael Pollan serves up a buffet of food wrongs as he walks us down the supermarket aisles. For him, knowing what to eat comes down to some fundamental rules. Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. And he explains why that's not as easy as it sounds.
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Episode 3: Food Waste
At every link in the food chain, from growing, to selling, to consuming, food can spoil or be thrown out rather than chowed down. Apples rotting on trees, leftovers left for dead, dumpster diving for dinner... and calling on Wal-Mart for food distribution salvation. Good food gone bad: on this episode of Diet for a Hungry Planet.
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Episode 4: Seafood
Foodies everywhere think nothing of dropping some serious cash on a plate of freshly shucked oysters. Along with mussels and sushi, the popularity of fishy foods is worth an ocean's income for Canada's fishing industry. In this episode: how Canada's seafood fares on the global market... and why it could face troubled waters.
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Episode 5: Food Blame
The backdrop to our series - the global food crisis - gets pushed to the forefront today, as we re-examine why food insecurity, food shortages and food prices caught so many by surprise. Author Raj Patel blames corporations. Author Lester Brown blames, well, just about everyone. Two celebrated critics review what's wrong with the world's food menu. Today, on Diet for a Hungry Planet.
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Episode 6: Not the Farm
It's a hard life if you're a city chicken. As the local food movement keeps gaining momentum, a call goes out for a return to urban agriculture. Why North American cities have abandonned the practice of growing food to feed themselves.
And speaking of farming, what are new immigrants to do when they can't find the food they cooked with back home? Feeding the hunger for exotic produceand getting new Canadians out into the field to grow it themselves. The growing need to grow more food, today, on Diet for a Hungry Planet.
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Episode 7: Frankenfood
Put the words "genetically" and "modified" together and prepare for a food fight. Now the world's agricultural landscape has changed in the ten years since activists and consumers first resisted the premise and the promise of GM crops. But a call from activists in Africa and farmers in Scotland sparks the debate again. Today, on Diet for a Hungry Planet.
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Episode 8: Food Culture
In France, food is linked to everything from geography to identity. Take the tiny cornichon. The French relish the petite but sour pickle. But globalization has taken the frenchness from the diminutive dill, placing those who used to grow them, In A Pickle. That's the name of Anita Elash's documentary. Today, on Diet for a Hungry Planet.
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Episode 9: Diabetes in India
Today's show
Of the estimated 2-hundred and 46 million people around the world with diabetes, nearly 41 million - one sixth - live in India. And as the country modernizes, the country is adopting a more western diet, including more fast food. But a genetic disposition in that population means people - even those in their 20s - are vulnerable to type 2 diabetes. The CBC's Alison Broddle presents a documentary, called "Sweet Poison." Today, on Diet for a Hungry Planet.
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Next week
It's diets for everyone's tastes, with what to eat advice from "skinny bitches", the Old Testament, and your kids. That's next week, on Diet for a Hungry Planet.
Episode 10: Diets
Today's show
Omnivores and carnivores aren't at the table in today's more exotic diet plans. Whether your food guide is the Bible or People's magazine, there's no end of experts claiming veggie is the way to go. Also today, why there's no such thing as "kid's food", even though the packaging would convince you otherwise. But regardles of how you take this advice, remember: it all comes out, in the end. Oh yes, we'll look into that too, today, on Diet for a Hungry Planet.
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