This podcast explores our modern relationship with eating and cuts through the confusion of contemporary dietary advice with seven liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants". For decades, Americans have fallen under the spell of "nutritionism," a prevailing ideology that treats food merely as a delivery system for invisible, scientifically engineered nutrients. Yet, despite thirty years of official nutritional advice, we have only grown sicker and fatter, replacing traditional whole foods with highly processed "edible foodlike substances".

The Eater's Manifesto investigates the devastating impact of the Western diet—a diet characterized by lots of processed foods, added fat and sugar, and a lack of vegetables and fruits. By unpacking the history of food science and the industrialization of agricultur ...