all right let's talk reaction to the book haley is one from jennifer erickson when i read mark bittman says animal vegetable junk i was compelled by the way he considers justice from an agricultural point of view what's more important than feeding children while teaching them what real food means he writes the sooner we begin to raise children who recognize that coke and snickers don't bring happiness and the sooner we teach children how and by whom food is produced the sooner will stop producing generations of adults who struggle with diet our school district motto is always learning always growing and then spoke inspired me to reach out to our principal and ask to extend our votto to growing food growing community changes planted one see it at a time maybe our courtyard could be that scene i mean that's an awesome there's no question there but let me reiterate something which is until we raise children who understand what good food is and know where it comes from we're going to be cultivating generation after generation and on healthy adults so if we want healthy 40 year olds we have

today we're going to be focusing on food and the connection with climate change with the help of mark bittman he's a journalist and also the author of animals which junk a history of food from cena or the suicidal market is so good to have you on the stream a welcome good to have you. been doing this. you're so welcome marketeers for the benefit of our international audience who may not have read every single one of your books i was going to a little bit of a scrolling here this is mark bittman just google books and you will see so many publications how to do this how to do that some alliteration simple ways to cook when bread and so it goes on and on and on mark but what is special about animal vegetable junk. well i didn't i thought of writing about food for 40 years and a lot of that has been about cooking travel restaurants etc etc that's one side of it but have through that period of that 20 years ago i recognize that. food is life is everything food is way more important than how you prepare it. agriculture is political food is political and these things need to be talked about there ha

every single one of your books i was going to a little little bit of a scrawling here this is mark bittman just google books and you will see so many publications how to do this how to do that some it's a ration simple ways to cook and bread and so it goes on and on and on month but what is special about animal vegetable junk. well i did i've been writing about food for 40 years and a lot of that has been about cooking travel restaurants etc etc that's one side of it but have found through that period about 20 years ago i recognized that that food is life it is everything food is when more important than how you prepare it. agriculture is political through it is political and these things need to be talked about there hasn't been a lot of conversation given how important food is there isn't a lot of conversation about the role that it plays in every aspect of society so i started to write about those things and and worked my way into a weekly food column about the policy and politics of and health aspects of and climate aspects of food and did that for the new york times for 5 years and th

mark bittman has been a leading voice in food culture for three decades. born in new york city in 1950 he ban wright professionally in 1978, after five years as general assignment reporter, he turned all of his attention to food. his first cookbook, fish, the complete guide to buying and cooking, was published in 1994, and remains in print. since then he a has written or cowritten 30 others including the how to cook everything series. he was a distinguished fellow at the university of california berkeley and a fellow at the university -- union of concerned scientists. he remains a fellow at yale and now on the faculty of columbia university's school of public health and has received six james beard awards, four iacpwaters and numerous other honors and is also editor in chief of the mark bittman project, a news alert and website focusing on all aspects of food from politics to delicious. his most recent book is a history of food and humanity which we'll be talking about today. animal, vegetable, junk. welcome, mark. >> thanks, patty, sounds like you're talk