Mark Bittman

And then the last couple hundred years, it's really been, you know, we ate...

Locally, according to what was available, according to our genetics and so on, we as a species did that for – it's arbitrary, but let's say 9,800 years.

And then the last 200 years, we completely screwed it all up.

So how do we get to a place where –

We're eating what our bodies need and we're treating land the way land should be treated and we're not – like you could trace so many of the world's problems back to the way we handle food and our relationship with food.

And most of that started becoming perverted with colonialism in the 15th, 16th century and then accelerated with the Industrial Revolution.

No, globally.

But then from 1900 or so on, the United States led the way in screwing up food.

Yeah.

We were the world leaders in screwing up food.

We're number one.

And we haven't screwed it up for everyone yet.

And sometimes I think, well, there are other countries that look at the U.S.

and are like, well, we don't want to go down that road.

But American agriculture is run by very powerful companies who would love to spread their products and their way of doing things around the world.

And it's kind of an economic colonialism that is unfortunate, let's say.

Route 46.

Right there.

Yeah, it came from California, unless it came from Mexico, unless it came from Peru or whatever, China.

God.