Dan Saladino explains how modern food systems have created a vicious cycle of more people needing more food and how the scale of farming is destroying biodiversity.

Since the 20th century, the human population has ballooned thanks to monoculture farming. But the biodiversity that has been dismantled by this agriculture is essential to the survival of our planet and species.

Dan Saladino is a food journalist and broadcaster for the BBC.

In Eating to Extinction, Saladino lays out the issue with modern food systems: increasing scales of production have driven down variety, putting health, culture, the planet, species, and ecosystems at risk.

Saladino explains how every part of our diet has become less diverse and that sourcing our foods from an ever shorter list of plants, animals, and fish will cause our downfall.