A few links about Okrent that may be of interest. Found this on the site where the Youtube video is posted:
Alex Okrent only connection to Obama campaign, February 2008 blog post https://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/alexokrent
Alex Okrent Twitter account https://twitter.com/HeyAok
Alex Okrent deleted Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/okrent
Sarah Roberts, last person that Alex Okrent tweeted to https://twitter.com/sarahchristine
Jewish Voice for Peace, virulently anti-Israel website of which Alex Okrent’s mother, Lynn Pollack, holds a leadership position http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
Nexus of anti-Israel “social justice” groups like Jewish Voice for Peace and CODEPINK http://rabbibrant.com/category/jewish-voice-for-peace/
Jewish S.H.I.T. List website (Self-Hating and/or Israel-Threatening, listing both Alex Okrent and his sister Abigail Okrent http://www.masada2000.org/list-NOP.html
Trevor Loudon’s Marxist watchdog website, listing Alex Okrent’s sister, Abigail Okrent http://keywiki.org/index.php/Abigail_Okrent
‘American Jews Oppose Israeli Policy in Gaza’ petition signed by Alex Okrent’s mother, Lynn Pollack http://faultlineusa.blogspot.com/2009/01/obama-appoints-new-me-envoy-urges-ga...
Funeral schedule of Alex Okrent, listing Howard Friedland conducting services, who has been identified as an anti-Israeli Marxist
http://www.chicagojewishfunerals.com/funeral-detail-page?case=7C90CBC6-BFC5-4...
Did you look over his followers and who he was following?
Young Okrent looks like another self hating Jew plus his parents fit that description
His sister works for the Dept of Agriculture it seems.
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/103625/2/AAEA_12746.pdf
His sister works for the Dept of Agriculture it seems.
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/103625/2/AAEA_12746.pdf
Oh, and his sister seems to think that the cure for obesity is to tax ‘unhealthy’ (ie: Cheap) food.
ABSTRACT. Many commentators have claimed that farm subsidies have contributed
significantly to the “obesity epidemic” by making fattening foods relatively cheap and
abundant and, symmetrically, that taxing “unhealthy” commodities or subsidizing
“healthy” commodities would contribute to reducing obesity rates. This paper makes
three contributions. First, we review evidence from the literature on the impacts on food
consumption and obesity resulting from subsidies applied in the past to production or
consumption of farm commodities. Second, we develop and present new arguments
and preliminary evidence on the impacts of past government investments in agricultural
R&D on food consumption and obesity—through research-induced increases in
agricultural productivity and the consequences for prices, production, and consumption
of farm commodities. Third, we consider and compare the economic efficiency of
hypothetical agricultural research policies (changing the orientation of agricultural
research investments) versus hypothetical agricultural commodity subsidies and taxes
as alternative mechanisms for encouraging consumption of healthy food or discouraging
consumption of unhealthy food, or both.
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/53336/2/Alston%20et%20el.pdf