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.

Industrial food can be good, as can the simple pleasures of Waffle House. Looking forward to this one by @gnrosenberg.bsky.social and @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social. Some parallels to @mikegrunwald.bsky.social's recent book, I think.

Read the introduction to *Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How To Make It Even Better,* my new book with @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social that is out with @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social next month. bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-food-s...

The full Introduction of Feed the People! is now available for free on @gnrosenberg.bsky.social's Substack. Have a read. I hope it whets your appetite for the rest of the book. bearistotle.substack.com/p/the-food-s...

"To the extent the guidelines ... represent an agenda, it is not simply to facilitate a particular outcome favored by meat corporations but also to invert good governance liberalism." @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I on the new food pyramid for @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2051...

I'll be speaking at the Tufts Future of Food Innovation Day today. And just in time here's a 20% off promo code for anyone interested in pre-ordering Feed the People! directly from Basic Books.

Come for the “Lobster Heist,” stay for the “wrecking the basic capacities of government officials to do their jobs <guaranteeing> the bad government it purports to fix…” Nice work from @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social @gnrosenberg.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2050...

Consider the Lobster Heist! @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I for @newrepublic.com on what $400k of missing crustaceans tells us about exploited workers and our faltering regulatory state. newrepublic.com/article/2050...

The recent spate of seafood heists in New England may seem comical, but it shows just how under-regulated freight is in the USA ... and how important regulation are for an abundant and healthy food system. Myself and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com. newrepublic.com/article/2050...

Been thinking a bunch about the lobster heist and might have some thoughts.

Just pre-ordered Meat by @brucefriedrich.bsky.social and Feed the People by @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social. Looking forward to reading these when they drop in February

Agriculture is good.

@gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I wrote about public grocery stores, Mamdani's most polarizing policy proposal. They are worth trying, but are not a guaranteed food security fix. It is the rest of the affordability agenda that can do more for food insecure New Yorkers. newrepublic.com/article/2046...

Mark your calendars: The book launch for Feed the People! will be February 17, 2026 at Powerhouse in Brooklyn. Hope to see you there! powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

@jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I have thoughts about municipal public grocers. They may do some good if they can compete with major grocers on price, but to take a real bite out of food insecurity, poor people will need more money. newrepublic.com/article/2046... via @newrepublic.com

*Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food is Good and How to Make It Even Better* comes out in February. @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I will do a launch event at Brooklyn's Powerhouse Books on 2.17.26, 7-9 PM. Get your ticket today! powerhousearena.com/events/book-...

I will gladly any and every copy of my book I see!

Great article. Always learning from these guys.

"If anything, the gay wool fashion show should make us think not about the good fortune of the few rescued rams but about how animal farming systematically, routinely, and often violently exploits the reproduction of all the animals it encounters."

Adult content, for people who love meat, dairy and wool, to shatter "nostalgic celebrations of old-time farming". An important article below, including this:

Two weeks ago, Grindr put on a fashion show of wool from "gay" rams rescued from slaughter. The media and the Internet swooned. But this feel-good story is a window into the dark role of forced reproduction in animal agriculture. By me & @gnrosenberg.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Just in time for your Thanksgiving feast, @jandutkiewicz.bsky.social and I killjoy the gay ram story over at @newrepublic.com. Sorry, but *all* animal farming is predicated on exploiting the sex of farm animals. Oh, and those rams (probably) ain't gay. Enjoy! newrepublic.com/article/2036...

Myths about our ancestors' meaty diets animate modern politics and culture wars about food and identity. But the history of human diets tells a different story about food's past and lets us be more rational about its future. @gnrosenberg.bsky.social & I for @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...

We have a cover! Feel free to pre-order the book from any of the sellers linked on the Hachette site. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/jan-d...

Hey @theatlantic.com thanks for at least hyperlinking mine and @gnrosenberg.bsky.social piece that says the exact same thing from 3 years ago. Oh, wait, you didn't.