Live Future Herd salon

Feed the People!

A conversation on agrifood industry, public capacity, and how change happens.

When

Tuesday, August 25, 2026
2:00 p.m. EDT

Duration

90 minutes

Facilitated by

Jesse Hirsh

Feed the People! by Jan Dutkiewicz and Gabriel N. Rosenberg makes a direct argument for taking industrial food seriously. The book asks readers to look past familiar stories about local food, purity, and nostalgia, and to recognize the scale, technology, coordination, and infrastructure that make modern food widely available.

Future Herd is convening a live salon on the book and on the larger questions it raises for food and agriculture in Canada.

What does a strong and responsible agrifood industry need to be able to do? How do systems change when they are already carrying the work of feeding people? What do we gain, and what do we miss, when we describe food through simple stories about industry, localism, abundance, or reform?

Jesse Hirsh will facilitate a 90-minute live conversation.

About the book

Learn more about Feed the People!: Why Industrial Food Is Good and How to Make It Even Better, published by Basic Books.

Participate in the salon

To take part in the live discussion, RSVP to [email protected].

Participants join the conversation with Jesse Hirsh on video and audio. Future Herd will follow up directly with participation details.

Watch live

The salon will also be available to watch live. The viewing link will be posted on this page before the event.

A recording of the salon will later be released through the Future Herd podcast.