Uploaded December 2018 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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This video discusses the critical need for a fundamental overhaul of our industrial food system, advocating for a shift towards more local, sustainable, and humane practices. It highlights the importance of reconnecting with the source of our food, addressing environmental and health issues, and emphasizes grassroots change as a powerful tool for systemic transformation.

Nicolette Hahn Niman, rancher, environmental activist and author of Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production, explains why our food system is broken. Niman argues that the industrialization of food has created mammoth environmental, public health and animal welfare problems that will not just go away without fundamental change.

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0:00 Introduction
0:01 reconnecting with our food
1:15 a broken food system
2:57 food costs
3:47 respecting an animal's fundamental nature
5:11 impediments to change
6:35 farming practices that have no future
7:48 a food source you'd want to visit