The Harms of Our Industrial Food System
As seen on NPR, The Atlantic, Real Time with Bill Maher, and more, ERIC SCHLOSSER says mergers and acquisitions have created food oligopolies that are inefficient, barely regulated, and sometimes dangerous. In this presentation, Schlosser lays out a roadmap to a more sustainable, humane, and delicious future.
Labor and Our Industrial Food System
Investigative journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist ERIC SCHLOSSER shares the stories of our food workers as part of a greater picture of the American lived experience. Farmworkers, meatpacking workers, and restaurant workers are the foundation of our food economy—but they are also among the poorest, most exploited, most likely to be undocumented workers in the country. If you eat, you are connected to these men and women with every bite.
The New Nuclear Arms Race
Right now, ERIC SCHLOSSER sees that the world faces three great existential threats: climate change, viral pandemics, and nuclear weapons. Of the three, nuclear weapons pose by far the greatest immediate danger yet receive the least attention--a fact that only increases the threat.
AI, Nuclear Weapons, & the Risks of Complex Tech
Nuclear weapons, commercial airliners, driverless cars—all three are machines that can go wrong in unexpected ways. As the world grows more and more dependent on complex technological systems, we must keep in mind the flaws inherent in them and maintain a sense of humility about them. In this talk, ERIC SCHLOSSER highlights that everything we create is imperfect, often in hidden ways, with potentially catastrophic consequences that need to be managed.
The War on Drugs
Since Ronald Reagan declared the War on Drugs in 1982, millions of Americans have been arrested and imprisoned for non-violent drug crimes—and yet today illegal drugs are less expensive and more readily available than forty years ago. ERIC SCHLOSSER argues that we urgently need to end the drug war and rethink how we treat people who abuse drugs.
NYT Bestselling Author Eric Schlosser discusses our food systems on national news
New York Times bestselling author of Fast Food Nation and Pulitzer Prize nominee ERIC SCHLOSSER has taken to national news outlets to share his warnings about our fragile food system. Promoting Food, Inc. 2, a reprisal of his groundbreaking documentary, Schlosser has spoken on NPR’s Fresh Air, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Atlantic, and MSNBC about the pitfalls of our current food system.
Watch Eric Schlosser speak at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future >>
Watch Eric Schlosser speak on a panel with the Environmental Working Group >>
Eric Schlosser’s the bomb brings nuclear conversations to university campuses
New York Times bestselling author of Command and Control and Pulitzer Prize nominee ERIC SCHLOSSER helped to create a multi-media installation, the bomb, that was staged at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, among other venues. The MacArthur Foundation has provided a large grant to bring the bomb to college campuses across the U.S.A., providing a necessary outlet for discussion centering conflict resolution, nuclear disarmament, and global security.
Watch Eric Schlosser in conversation with the World Affairs Council >>
Eric Schlosser is a writer and filmmaker whose work explores subjects too often ignored by the mainstream media, shedding light on worlds that have been deliberately hidden. He is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control (2013).
Fast Food Nation helped to start a revolution in how Americans think about what they eat. Reefer Madness exposed the absurdity and injustices of the war on drugs, while revealing the exploitation of undocumented immigrants and the vast fortunes earned in America’s underground economy. Command and Control explored the effort, since the dawn of the atomic age, to prevent nuclear weapons from being stolen, sabotaged, or detonated by accident. It was a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize in History.
Schlosser has also helped to produce a number of films, including Fast Food Nation (2006), directed by Richard Linklater; There Will Be Blood (2007), directed by Paul Thomas Anderson; Food, Inc., (2008), directed by Robert Kenner; and Food Chains (2014), co-produced with Eva Longoria and directed by Sanjay Rawal. Schlosser was the co-creator and co-director of the bomb (2016), a multimedia installation staged at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo.
He has lectured at universities throughout the United States and spoken at the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, the Parliaments of the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Norway, as well as at the United Nations. Schlosser is currently at work on a book about the American prison system.
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