I got this new shtick for talks where I take a big swig of Diet Cherry Coke and then say I grabbed the cherry because I've been trying to eat more fruits and vegetables.

The problem with conceptually counterposing the cold efficiency of conventional agriculture and staple crop production to feel-good initiatives like community and backyard veggie gardens is that you're dealing with completely incommensurable scales of production. The former is what feeds us.

Both honored and insulted to be referred to as a vegan Earl Butz in the LARB review of Feed the People! This is the sort of engaged pushback from left-small-food circles I expected when we wrote the book, and also the sort of conversations we should be having. lareviewofbooks.org/article/feed...

I wrote about James Talarico's blasphemy against meat and barbeque revival on the Texas campaign trail. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Gramps on one side ran a liquor store. Gramps on the other side was a vagabond and rambler and was never able to keep down a regular job.

Blew off some steam today by doing a 60kg Turkish Getup. This is the way.

Read @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's new piece about the writing process and why a vignette about mid-rave ice cream at Berghain almost made it into Feed the People! Stay for the "regenerative" ag hack actually selling million dollar homes. bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-cuttin...

Big belated congrats to @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social on FEED THE PEOPLE! a book that everyone should read and will get a lot out of. It might surprise you to know that they call for throwing away the "broken food system" cliché but they have a GOOD POINT!

Reading about how a more equitable food system is possible. Nice work @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

San Francisco! Gabriel and I are giving a book talk tomorrow night at USF at 6 p.m. This event is open to the public! Come by.

New York City! This Wednesday, Feb. 25, I'll be doing a book talk at Barnes & Noble in Brooklyn (Atlantic Ave.) at 6 p.m. Come by! stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/978006...

Are industrial foods really the problem? Writing in The New York Times, Senior Research Fellow Gabriel N. Rosenberg argues with Jan Dutkiewicz that rather than idealizing the past, policy and technology should come into play to improve today’s food systems. 🥯 🍇 🔗 buff.ly/WEU1bc1

One of my favorite grafs in the book which has a line that has consistently cracked up every editor who has read it! (What say you, Heather?)

So excited @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I have the chance to explain "democratic hedonism" in this excerpt of "Feed the People!" in @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2067...

What is "democratic hedonism"? What does it mean in the food reform context? An excerpt from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social's and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's new book: newrepublic.com/article/2067...

"Improving the American food system further will require engaging, improving, and fairly distributing modern agriculture’s productivity, not tossing it on the compost heap." @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I on the concept of democratic hedonism in food system reform. newrepublic.com/article/2067...

I just started reading "Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better" by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and Gabriel N. Rosenberg. Positive: offers a counterintuitive take on our food system, beyond simply saying it's "broken" Negative: I want to eat waffles so badly

"[Feed the People! and Meat] bring a passion to the affluent society’s intractable modern dilemma of what to eat. As Rosenberg and Dutkiewicz say, it is a dilemma probably most effectively addressed without preaching." A wonderful review in @financialtimes.com. www.ft.com/content/403a...

Received my preorder of ‘Feed the People! Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better’ from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social. I’m looking forward to reading it! You can get your copy here: bookshop.org/p/books/feed...

"Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better," by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social, is now available!

48kg press is coming right along. It felt so nice I almost went for two.

Before I wrote this last year I knew a lot about the horrors of dairy but didn't truly know what it means to be a herd animal. We think humans are intensely social, but cows are another level entirely I think it's pretty much impossible to do dairy farming humanely, but the way we do it seems 1/

Once again for the folks in the back: labor rights are speech rights, and speech rights are labor rights.

"But dumping industrial food from your plate would do little to change things for the better and, in some cases, would actually make it worse. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Should we think of food as "appropriately processed" to needs and context? This comment on mine and Gabriel's NYT piece really hits at the heart of what we want for a better food system: Improving the quality of diet and life for the average eater. Wish we'd thought of that phrase oursevles...

ICYMI @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and I wrote about why you should not want to eat like your great-great-grandparents and why modern, industrially-produced food is "real food." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Some farming 🔥 from sarahtaber.bsky.social. Lots of insightful stuff here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVnJ...

No one did more to valorize Joel Salatin and his old-school reactionary values than Pollan and The Omnivore's Dilemma. A perfect example of Pollan dressing up a self-professed "Christian libertarian environmentalist capitalist lunatic" in the trappings of well-to-do Democrat voter-ese.

We listened to Michael Pollan on The Interview yesterday, and it made me so mad. And I used to be a food movement person!

Well, I guess I'm an idiot (true!) but I don't find this critique very persuasive, Malcolm.

RFK’s tailgate spread features mainly road-to-table bear and death cap shrooms in an aioli of secretions from his own body.

The thing that gets me is that there is exactly zero self-reflection coming from the alternative food movement. Read the Michael Pollan interview that ran yesterday in the NYT and he's like: "MAHA and me share some ideas! Huh! Weird!" MAHA is the food movement's ecofascist Frankenstein monster.

and even were it not, the primacy of the aesthetics of production is absurd given the stakes of its *outcomes*. Many small farms abuse workers. Many non-GMO farms pollute waterways. Many large farms degrade soil. Narrow focus on production stylings over outcomes masks these tangible injustices

if I see one more of you share some Whole Earth Catalogue bullshit from a, let's say, Nazi-curious beef farm tradwife whose follows evince a less than perfect understanding of vaccine science because it has the word 'natural' in it I swear 2 god www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

One thing we say in this piece, but that isn't its primary focus, is that "industrial" vs "real" framing is silly because virtually all food is produced with some reliance on industrial supply chains. It's all industrial food! Yes, even local, organic, non-GMO, whole, regenerative, agro-ecological.

Before you write off a piece defending industrial food, look at the concluding recommendations, all of which are sensible and some of which the current administration might both endorse (not all! they lead with eating less red meat) and think how to implement. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

“Virtually all the food we eat, junk and vegetables alike, is part of an industrial system,” Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel Rosenberg write. We are better off embracing that fact than “chasing a fantasy of Edenic premodern food that never existed.”

Great going @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social "the bagel’s cream cheese, made velvety with carob bean gum and shelf-stable & mold-free with potassium sorbate, is ultraprocessed. But the idea that ultraprocessed foods are categorically unhealthy is an oversimplification." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

Totally agree with @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social that we should stop demonizing industrial food. Demonize crap food, by all means! But not all industrial, or even ultra-processed food is crap, and some crap has only ingredients your grandmother would recognize.

"The policy tools exist to minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of a system that provides food, much of it healthy, in abundance. But first we need to stop demonizing industrial food, and instead think about how to make it better." Gabe & I for @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

"The policy tools exist to minimize the harms and maximize the benefits of a system that provides food, much of it healthy, in abundance. But first we need to stop demonizing industrial food." @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I in today's NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/o...

NEW EPISODE with @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social about their book "Feed the People"! They dismantle food system myths and explain why animal agriculture can't be reformed at current scale. Listen on your fav podcatcher, watch on YouTube, or visit ourhenhouse.org/ep900

It was a pleasure to join @ourhenhouse.org for a long chat about Feed the People!, food system reform, and why we need analytical clarity to talk about that reform. Thanks so much for having myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social on. www.ourhenhouse.org/ep900/

We interviewed @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social about "Feed the People"! Tune in THIS FRIDAY for our full episode. Preorder their book before Feb 17 at basicbooks.com with code "feed20" for 20% off! A must-listen that dismantles myths about agriculture and food systems.

Two weeks until Feed the People! is published. The book took us across the USA to study policy, technology, and labor organizing, but also to eat food, some good and some outright hostile. Thank you for the kind words, Kelly Alexander. 20% off at basicbooks.com with code FEED20 until Feb. 17.

Hot take: the band geese fucking sucks

New press PR in my freezing garage. Finally got the beast 48kg up.

My most Hoosier trait is that I still cannot comprehend the justification for DST—like literally cannot wrap my brain around why anyone thinks we should do this—and would do away with it in a heartbeat.