Welcome back to The Agriculture Season, our new series that explores the food on your plate, how it got there, and it's global impact on the environment, social justice, and the economy.

For some reason the release of undercover media from a tuna boat killing dolphins isn’t hitting the same in 2026 as it did in 1988.

It’s possible that the over-saturation of horrific, planet-destroying, life-altering media about it, perhaps we’ve become desensitized, perhaps your algorithm is not pushing that kind of content to you, perhaps greenwashing and really effective communication campaigns from companies have effectively made most of us believe that there isn’t really an issue. Or, if there was, they’re on top of it with their “all natural” products on the shelves.

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Sources cited in this episode:

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Welcome back to The Agriculture Season, our new series that explores the food on your plate, how it got there, and it's global impact on the environment, social justice, and the economy. In this episode (EP 5), we're answering the question: In a food system where insecurity, extreme waste and inequity exist, we must ask ourselves: who does this system actually serve, and who does it leave behind?This episode examines the intersection of agriculture and equity, how food systems operate at various scales, and – ultimately – how the design of our food systems creates inequity, waste and environmental harm.

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Sources cited in this episode:https://www.usda.gov/foodwaste/faqs

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/29/why-have-americas-black-farmers-disappeared

https://www.epa.gov/sustainable-management-food/food-waste-and-climate-change

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8801175/

https://www.naacpldf.org/case-issue/black-farmers-faq/

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/data-and-analysis/markets/outlook/medium-term_en

https://drawdown.org

https://natifs.org

https://www.usda.gov/our-agency/initiatives/black-farmers

https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/farm-loan-programs/minority-and-women-farmers-and-ranchers

https://www.valleyagvoice.com/regenerative-agriculture-offers-long-term-solutions-for-central-valley/

https://seas.umich.edu/news/food-desert-vs-food-apartheid-which-term-best-describes-disparities-food-access#:~:text=Food%20apartheid%20is%20a%20term%20used%20by,have%20created%20and%20continue%20to%20perpetuate%20inequities

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Welcome back to The Agriculture Season, our new series that explores the food on your plate, how it got there, and it's global impact on the environment, social justice, and the economy.

In this episode (EP 4), we're diving into the controversial questions:

Is eating meat killing the planet?

Is there such a thing as "ethically conscious meat eating"?

What exactly is meat production's impact on the environment?

Tune into this episode to find out our discoveries after connecting with land stewards, regenerative farmers, and superfood experts to answer our pressing questions!

Sources cited in this episode:

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/meat-oil-gas-methane

https://profundo.nl/projects/roasting-the-planet-big-meat-and-dairy-s-big-emissions-/

https://foe.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Roasting-The-Planet-ExecSummary-FINAL-16_10_25.pdf

https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food

https://www.fairr.org/resources/knowledge-hub/water-use

https://carboncontainmentlab.org/updates/posts/hidden-in-plain-sight-an-overview-of-rice-paddy-methane-mitigation

https://www.ccacoalition.org/en/activity/mitigating-methane-emissions-rice-paddies

https://farmonaut.com/blogs/almond-milk-water-consumption-2026-vs-dairy-milk

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714

https://www.asas.org/taking-stock/blog-post/taking-stock/2023/06/29/interpretive-summary-study-finds-carbon-footprint-of-lab-grown-beef

https://costa.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/costa.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/one-pager-cows-act.pdf

https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/oefi/AMMP/

https://www.iatp.org/emissions-impossible-methane-edition

https://changingmarkets.org/report/emissions-impossible-methane-edition/

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaq0216

https://www.waterfootprint.org/resources/Mekonnen-Hoekstra-2012-WaterFootprintFarmAnimalProducts_1.pdf

https://globalaffairs.org/commentary/blogs/livestock-ladders-water-footprint

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/391194277_Global_Rice_Paddy_Inventory_GRPI_A_High-Resolution_Inventory_of_Methane_Emissions_From_Rice_Agriculture_Based_on_Landsat_Satellite_Inundation_Data

https://e360.yale.edu/digest/meat-oil-gas-methane

https://foodrise.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Roasting-The-Planet-Report-FINAL-16_10_25.pdf

https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/2021_IATP_COP26_JBS_NetZero.pdf _____________________________________________________________

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Ari & Lexi