Uprooted Episode 43: Crisis By Design




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Summary: Josh talks with IATP Executive Director, Juliette Majot, about one of IATP's foundational documents, Crisis By Design, written by IATP's founder, Mark Ritchie, with Kevin Ristau. The piece showed how the farm crisis of the 1980's was the result of purposeful actions by corporate executives to undermine government policies that ensured family farmers get a fair price. They also discuss how the landscape has changed in the last 32 years, and what an update to this document might look like.