Guest Profile: Julie Guthman

University of California Santa Cruz Professor where she teaches several courses ont he politics of food, agriculture and the body. Published extensively on contemporary efforts to transform the way food is produced, distributed, and consumed, with a particular focus on voluntary food labels, community food security, farm-to-school programs, and "alternative food" more generally. she wrote the award winning book, "Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California as well as her newest "WEIGHING IN: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism".

Website: www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520266254

Julie Guthman's Shows:

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Mar 29, 2012

Author of WEIGHING IN: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism talks about our perceptions of obesity and how the reality may be different.

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