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    Good Food

    Dangerous Jobs, Cheap Meat

    Next, onto a subject that the entire Good Food team spends a lot of time talking about: the price of our meat. In America, we eat more beef, poultry and pork than almost anywhere else in the world and we expect all of it to be super-cheap.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Jul 8, 2016 • 1 min read

    Next, onto a subject that the entire Good Food team spends a lot of time talking about: the price of our meat. In America, we eat more beef, poultry and pork than almost anywhere else in the world and we expect all of it to be super-cheap. Our colleagues at Harvest Public Media just finished a deep dive, "Dangerous Jobs, Cheap Meat," into the human toll of this habit. HPM Investigations Editor Peggy Lowe joins us to talk about it.

    Music: "Afterlife (Flume Remix)" by Arcade Fire and Flume

    The full episode

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    Cast iron skillets, corn, slaughterhouses, Azerbaijani food
    1. 0:30Escargot, My Car Go...to Spring in Downtown LA
    2. 8:01Pomegranates and Saffron
    3. 18:05We Love the Funk
    4. 25:07Corn and Tomatillo Salad with Crispy Pig Ears
    5. 32:16A Love Affair with the Cast Iron Skillet
    6. 42:22Dangerous Jobs, Cheap MeatYou’re reading this
    7. 53:25All Hail to the Neon Catfish God
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      Evan Kleiman

      host 'Good Food'

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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      Abbie Fentress Swanson

      Independent reporter and producer

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      Camellia Tse

      Producer, Good Food

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      Peggy Lowe

      Harvest Public Media

      CultureFood & Drink

    The full episode

    6 of 7
    Cast iron skillets, corn, slaughterhouses, Azerbaijani food
    1. 0:30Escargot, My Car Go...to Spring in Downtown LA
    2. 8:01Pomegranates and Saffron
    3. 18:05We Love the Funk
    4. 25:07Corn and Tomatillo Salad with Crispy Pig Ears
    5. 32:16A Love Affair with the Cast Iron Skillet
    6. 42:22Dangerous Jobs, Cheap MeatYou’re reading this
    7. 53:25All Hail to the Neon Catfish God
    Back to Good Food