Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)
Sep 24, 2026 · 36 min · 7 segments
Food Tank is live all week at WNYC-NPR's The Greene Space to talk solutions for food, agriculture, and environment during Climate Week NYC. In this episode, we're sharing three conversations with…
Paul SchieferGuest
Suzanne SengelmannGuest
Dani NierenbergHost
Shawna NelsonGuest
I've been to some of these conferences where they, they ask for like a walk-up song, but man-
I, I got in late last night, so I will say, uh, it's just getting started, but-
It's great to see lots of, uh, familiar faces, new faces, and just love the energy.
Um, I wanna start with a, I think what is a, a difficult kind of question to answer, but I'm, I'm gonna try to simplify it in a way that I think we can get it, get it to this audience.
You know, there's this narrative being pushed that we need industrial food to feed the world, that we need ultra-processed foods that are inexpensive for consumers to, to feed the world.
How did we get to this point where we think that, and how do we get away from thinking that?
I mean, I think the, uh, candid answer is I think we've just been deceived by big food for many years that this is the only way.
I mean, some of that might be incentives of the capital systems that really wanna de-risk and-
I think some of it's just a lack of creativity to, uh, to look back a little bit into the deeper part of our food system and imagine a different way to do it at scale.
I've been to some of these conferences where they, they ask for like a walk-up song, but man-
I, I got in late last night, so I will say, uh, it's just getting started, but-
It's great to see lots of, uh, familiar faces, new faces, and just love the energy.
Um, I wanna start with a, I think what is a, a difficult kind of question to answer, but I'm, I'm gonna try to simplify it in a way that I think we can get it, get it to this audience.
You know, there's this narrative being pushed that we need industrial food to feed the world, that we need ultra-processed foods that are inexpensive for consumers to, to feed the world.
How did we get to this point where we think that, and how do we get away from thinking that?
I mean, I think the, uh, candid answer is I think we've just been deceived by big food for many years that this is the only way.
I mean, some of that might be incentives of the capital systems that really wanna de-risk and-
I think some of it's just a lack of creativity to, uh, to look back a little bit into the deeper part of our food system and imagine a different way to do it at scale.
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