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Episode #89 Notes 1:00 - What is your motivation? 2:30 - Why did you start the Plant Based Foods Association (PBFA)? 5:00 - What are some of your proudest accomplishments at PBFA? 8:00 - Since you’ve left PBFA, what thoughts and concerns do you have for plant based foods? 11:30 - Why won’t ‘the marketplace’ fix the food system? 15:30 - On plant based food’s company advocacy. 19:00 - On greenwashin...

Episode #88 Notes 0:45 - Alan’s issues of synthetic biology and GMO. 9:15 - On gene editing, CRISPR, and defining synthetic biology. 22:00 - How these technologies work and how they’re deployed in food production. 27:00 - Who is funding these technologies in food production? 38:00 - The Commons as a response to consolidated agricultural land ownership. 42:00 - On GMO’s in Africa. Book Recommendati...

Episode #87 Notes 1:00 - What makes Dr. Bronner’s supply chain so unique? 4:30 - How did the supply chain come about and develop? 14:00 - What are the typical conditions of farmers and supply chain workers? 21:40 - How have workers and owners in the Dr. Bronner’s supply chain benefited from their relationship with y’all? 27:00 - How have customers reacted to your developments in supply chain? And...

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Episode #85 Notes 0:45 - What are your jobs at Starbucks? 2:00 - What’s it been like working at Starbucks through the pandemic? 5:00 - What inspired the union organizing campaign? 7:30 - What are your demands? 11:00 - How has this union campaign been received by your coworkers? 14:45 - On the vision of these organizing efforts in the short and long term. 20:00 - How to support these efforts. See P...

Episode #84 Notes 1:00 - An overview of RWDSU and background. 2:30 - On the political economy of farm work in the United States, and the lack of laws to protect farm workers. 6:20 - On The Fair Labor for Farm Workers Act. 8:00 - What is the upside of farm workers having a union contract? 11:00 - What is the future of farm work in New York? Do you see resistance from farm and land owners as farm wo...

Episode #83 Notes 1:00 - How did you get interested in writing about cultivated meats? 4:50 - On finding sources for Joe’s journalism on cultivated meats. 10:05 - How cultivated meats are made. 13:30 - Scaling and sterility in cultivated meat production 22:00 - Cultivated meats implications and animal rights 30:00 - The feed source for cultivated meat. 34:00 - The waste products and byproducts of...

Episode #82 Notes Kevin Bradshaw Local 252G Memphis, Tennesse BCTGM 0:30 - What is your role at Kellogg’s? 01:10 - Why are you on strike? And what has Kellogg’s done to instigate the strike? 2:30 - How has COVID exasperated some of the issues with working conditions? 4:00 - What are you standing for? 5:00 - How can folks support you? 8:00 - Dan Osborne, President Local 50G Omaha, Nebraska BCTGM 9:...

Episode #80 Notes 0:30 - How did you start at Amazon, and what led to your dismissal? 3:00 - How did your unionizing efforts lead to the work you do now? 4:15 - What is your critique of Amazon and how they treat employees? 5:30 - What is the Amazon Labor Union, it’s goals, and how it came about? 6:45 - On organizing and recruitment tactics. 9:30 - How has Amazon responded to your organizing tactic...

Episode #80 Notes 1:00 - Reckoning and Regenerative Agriculture article overview 6:05 - Regenerative Organic Certification and other ways in which we define regenerative. 21:45 - On racial justice and equity in regenerative agriculture. 30:00 - What should we do to help shift the meaning of regenerative agriculture. 34:00 - Further readings: Liz Carslile Farm (and Other F Words) , Sarah Mock Julie...

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Episode #78 Notes 1:15 - Inspiration for their new book, Enflamed. 2:40 - On Deep Medicine and why this book needed to happen. 8:30 - What is inflammation, exactly? 14:00 - On defining colonialism historically and presently. 19:00 - On the cultural and larger systems issues with the healthcare system. 26:30 - The limitations of addressing inflammation with the current state of the food system. 35:...

Episode #77 Notes 1:00 - On The Global Alliance for The Future of Food 3:00 - Case studies of work GAFF. 8:00 - Defining True Cost Accounting and why it matters. 12:00 - Why is this different than GAP accounting? And how are externalities accounted for in True Cost Accounting? 16:00 - How is True Cost Accounting embedded in regulatory frameworks? 21:00 - How would true cost accounting be applied t...

Episode #76 Notes 0:30 - What does the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa do? 2:00 - What is Food Sovereignty? 3:15 - The influence of powerful and influential benefactors of the green revolution in Africa. 8:15 - What was the Green Revolution? What did it want to do, and what have the outcomes been? 15:45 - How are food sovereignty organization pushing back on the Green Revolution narrative?...

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Episode #71 Notes Interview #1 with Lisa Gregory and Carl Miller of BCTGM 1:15 - Food industry experience 2:00 - Working on the Nabisco bakery production line. 4:00 - Lisa’s role at BCTGM Union. 5:00 - What has it been like working in food manufacturing during COVID? 9:00 - How many union members fell ill during COVID? 11:30 - On organizing efforts at their food manufacturing facility. 17:00 - The...

Errol Schweizer is the Host of The Checkout and has over 25 years of food industry experience, including retail operations and purchasing, CPG, farmers markets, community organizing, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Episode #69 Notes 0:45 - How did you get started in the food business and Miyoko’s Creamery? 4:00 - What were gaps in the market for dairy-free cheeses? 7:00 - How did you develop these dairy-free cheeses? 11:00 - What was consumer’s initial reaction to the products? 17:00 - On inequities in the funding and financing landscape. 21:00 - On what’s working and what’s not in the plant-based food indus...

Episode #68 Notes 0:45 - From impact investor to Cool Beans CEO. 4:15 - How did you re-discover the frozen food aisle? 8:00 - Why did Cool Beans decide to focus on plant-based foods? 15:00 - The Four Waves of plant based foods. 18:00 - On competing in the plant-based foods sector. 22:00 - On the ethics of plant-based foods. 25:00 - On converting conventional grain production to grass-based product...

Episode #67 Notes 0:45 - Tell us about your role at Tisch Center for Food, Education, and Policy. 2:15 - On Tisch Center’s research and advocacy work. 3:30 - On food insecurity in New York. 9:50 - How has COVID impacted food insecurity and your positions on policies impacting this? 18:45 - Policy goals around universal lunch programs. 28:30 - On the Food Ed Coalition. 35:00 - Policy positions rega...

Episode #66 Notes 1:00 - On unionizing efforts at No Evil Foods. 7:30 - Motivation around the initial unionization drive. 17:00 - How did the other employees respond to unionization? 21:45 - On the mechanics of union-avoidance industry. 23:00 - On PRO-ACT. 28:00 - What was the work dynamic? What did it feel like to work at the facility? 29:30 - What happened after the unionization effort failed? 4...