Synopsis

Christopher Leonard, author of "The Meat Racket," joined a panel featuring Austan Goolsbee, Margaret Hoover, and William Kristol, with Bruce Dern as a guest. Their discussion spanned a diverse range of subjects: the industry's inherent opacity surrounding meat production; the shortcomings of Barack Obama's attempts to regulate corporate agriculture; concerns regarding azodicarbonamide in Subway bread; the rise of the Tea Party movement and debates over corporate bailouts; the disproportionate al