Melanie Joy and Bill Schindler are polar opposites when it comes to dietary paths and their hopes for the future of food and farming.
But Joy – a vegan advocate who wants to see more plant-forward dietary habits and food production, rather than meat consumption – and Schindler – a food archeologist and chef in Maryland who contends we should be eating more meat via utilizing more parts of livestock — do agree on some things.
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