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Michael Pollan: uncertainty

15 Aug 2018 Conversations with Tyler Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics

“Is that free trade when it’s subsidized? I don’t know. Is it? You know better than I.”

— Michael Pollan

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Speaker
Michael Pollan
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Claim type
uncertainty
Recorded
15 Aug 2018
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

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…In the past, you’ve been critical of free trade in agriculture. Today, we live in an era of rising protectionism. Does free trade look better to you now? Or what’s your current take on free trade in agriculture? The question is not free trade or not free trade. It’s really, was it really free trade when we were dumping heavily subsidized crops on Mexico and other countries? Is that free trade when it’s subsidized? I don’t know. Is it? You know better than I. You’re an economist. Most of the subsidies go to just a few crops, right?…

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