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Food choices: Why are we so greedy?

Supermarkets stock thousands of food products flown in from all over the world. And we've become used to this bounty of choice, often at the cost of the environment. Is it time to scale back?

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Interviewees featured in this episode:

Dr. Janet Chrzan, nutritional anthropologist at the University of Pennsylvania

Vhari Russell, founder and managing director of the Food Marketing Experts

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