WE ARE WHAT WE EAT: EPISODE 1 OF 4

Share your thoughts The Promise: How Food Became an Industry (We Are What We Eat, Part 1 of 4) For 150 years, the food industry was one of civilization's great success stories. In Part 1 of this four-part series — based on Ashok's Substack essay "We Are What We Eat — And What the Food Industry Decided to Feed Us" — Ashok and Meera trace the remarkable arc from Nicolas Appert's 1810 preservation breakthrough, through the rise of the great brands that fed growing cities, to the Codex Alimentarius of 1963 that made food one of the most trusted, regulated industries on earth. This is the story of business and community in genuine symbiosis — the promise the industry made, and kept, for a century and a half. Understanding that promise matters, because in the next episode we ask: what happened when it quietly broke? 📖 Read the full essay: https://ashokv.substack.com/p/we-are-what-we-eat Coming up in this series: • Part 2: The Four Disorders — obesity, diabetes, hypertension, depression, and the plate • Part 3: The Great Decoupling — sixty years of data, one uncomfortable chart • Part 4: The Kitchen and the Pivot — grandmother’s wisdom and the way forward We are what we eat. Eat well — and pay the farmer, not the pharmacy. Thanks for tuning in to "Pay the Farmer, Not the Pharmacy"! Hosted by Meera & Ashok Vasudevan Stay Connected #PayTheFarmerNotThePharmacy #PlantBasedWellness #NaturalFood #AffordableWellness #GutHealth #ImmunityBoost #NutritionTips #CSAW (Centre for the Spread of Affordable Wellness) #Meeravasudevan #Ashokvasudevan https://umaglobalfoods.com/ https://csaw.co https://podcasts.apple.com/sg/podcast/pay-the-farmer-not-the-pharmacy/id1512934794 https://open.spotify.com/show/34nzNQQ62O8tygMaut2h8V