http://www.radio4all.net/program/65415Podcast for Program: Tom Laskawy: Food Monopolies and the Legacy of Robert BorkTue, 08 Jan 2013 23:16:41 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/65415In the words of Robert Bork, the controversial legal scholar and one of the fathers of modern anti-trust law who died this past December 19th at age 85, “Courts that know better ought not . . . to make rules unrelated to reality.” Well, the reality that Prof. Bork and his fellow originalists strived for has manifested itself in a monopolistic food system that keeps prices low and our waistlines bulging. This week’s guest on Sea Change Radio, food writer Tom Laskawy, tells us why he believes that Bork’s ideas of linking economics to antitrust gave us cheap meat and dairy as well as massive quantities of processed food – and why that’s a problem.Sea Change RadioTue, 08 Jan 2013 23:16:41 +0000