Lauren Crossland-Marr on Emerging Food Technologies and Science Communication

Summary

In this episode, cultural anthropologist Lauren Crossland-Marr returns to the Gastronomica podcast to discuss her new project on gene-edited foods and science communication. In conversation with Dan Bender of Gastronomica’s editorial collective, Lauren shares her evolving research interests in food studies and how she transitioned from studying ⁠local “authentic” foods⁠ to researching the rollout of a new technology in global food and agricultural commodity systems with the ⁠GEAP3 network⁠. Lauren introduces her most recent work, a podcast series called ⁠A CRIPSR Bite⁠, that tells the story of a new gene editing technology through case studies of tomatoes, soy, cattle, and wine.

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