The Checkout: Grocery Nerds

Episode #39 Notes 1:00 - Why did you become a doctor? 3:15 - What were your main areas of study and what degrees did you earn? 6:30 - How did your experience in public health impact your views on medicine and social change? 6:45 - What are the challenges in the food system that you are trying to address? 8:40 - How did you realize economic austerity measures were impacting public health? 12:00 - H...

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Episode #37 Notes 1:35- How has Amazon changed the logistics game, especially during COVID? 4:40 - What are the working conditions really like in Amazon fulfillment centers? 8:00 - Who is working on the ground at Amazon? 11:45 - How do race and gender overlay labor issues at Amazon? 15:15 - Surveillance of Amazon workers and implications. 20:15 - What happens to communities when Amazon comes to to...

Episode #36 Notes 1:00- How did you get involved in trade unions? 5:00 - Tell us about AFL-CIO 7:00 - What does “solidarity forever” mean to you? 8:00 - Why are there so few private sector unions in Texas? And of the ones that are active, what are they doing? 10:40 - COVID and impacts on essential workers and their families. 15:30 - What policies should be prioritized to protect workers in the sup...

Episode #35 Notes 0:45 - What inspired the formation of Migrant Justice? 1:30 - Tell us about the migrant labor issues in Vermont, specifically on dairy farms? 6:15 - What are the goals and mission of Migrant Justice? 10:30 - On the Milk With Dignity campaign. 13:30 - Ben and Jerry’s involvement with Milk With Dignity. 17:20 - Who is the campaign currently pursuing, and why? 20:00 - COVID’s impact...

Episode #34 Notes 1:00 - How did you get involved in the good food movement? 7:00 - On Agronomy. 9:15 - How did you decide to focus on poultry? 14:45 - What is ‘Tree Range’ poultry? 22:00 - How do you define regenerative agriculture? 24:30 - What are the goals of the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance? 30:00 - Regenerative Agricultural and cultural appropriation. 37:20 - Regenerative Agriculture an...

Episode #33 Notes 1:00 - How did you become a community organizer? 3:00 - What necessitates organizing in The Bronx? 6:45 - Defining food apartheid. 10:50 - How did you get started in the community garden movement? 16:45 - What inspired you and others to organize Black Urban Growers (BUGS) 24:15 - Rise and Root Farm and worker ownership. 31:15 - What role has food played in the black freedom strug...

Episode #33 Notes 1:00 - How did you get interested in gardening? 2:00 - What kind of skills have you picked up since you started gardening? 5:00 - How do you define regeneration? 7:15 - What is the language of regeneration? 12:40 - Why is representation and equity important for regenerative agriculture and climate change? 21:00 - Oversimplifications regarding climate change. 26:00 - Does regenera...

Episode #31 Notes Background on Prop 22 in California . 1:00 - Prop 22 in California - tell us about it. 5:45 - The disinformation campaign around Prop 22 8:45 - Fair Labor Standards Act as it relates to Prop 22. 11:30 - The Gig Economy, Prop 22, and the implications for the workforce outside of California that we should be thinking about. 14:30 - Healthcare provision in Prop 22. 18:00 - What kind...

Episode #30 Notes 0:30 - What is being done to stop the Line 3 Pipeline and others - and why? 6:00 - On the destruction of indigenous culture and nature. 10:30 - On transitioning to a better future. 11:45 - Fossil fuel addiction intersecting with economic and environmental justice. 15:00 -How to develop strategies on resisting pipelines. 18:00 - The concept and notion of the sacred. 21:00 - The sa...

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2021 will be the year that we re-center working people in the food system. History shows that organized efforts and legally-binding contracts result in safer workplaces and better livelihoods for all supply chain workers, particularly women and people of color. Sources for all information are available upon request. Major sources: https://www.wholeworker.org/press/december-mass-email https://www.b...

Episode #27 Notes 1:00 - What’s your academic area of focus and what led you to it? 3:30 - Tell us about your work at Mondragon. 9:15 - On the New York City system of cooperatives. 13:15 - How are transitions to business cooperatives financed? 14:45 - Public finance and modern monetary theory. 29:00 - The difference between market based capitalism vs. modern monetary theory. 41:45 - On free trade...

Major sources include: https://thefern.org/2020/12/documents-show-scope-of-covid-19-in-north-carolina-meat-industry/ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/11/one-in-six-could-go-hungry-2020-as-covid-19-persists https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/business/hunger-coronavirus-economy/?itid=hp-top-table-low https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/12/10/pandemic-shoplifting-hun...

Episode #25 Notes 1:00 - Immokalee, FL: Why is there so much food production in this region? 8:45 - How are retail and food chains responsible for the property and abuses in their supply chains and how does your work helping to change this? 14:45 - Fair Food Program - what it is and how it works. 28:00 - Food Buyers and holding power in the food system. 30:40 - How has COVID affected farm workers...

Episode #24 Notes 1:00 - How did you get into the retail business? 4:30 - What are your customers shopping for? 7:15 - What do you sell that sets you apart from other retailers? 8:00 - Do you cooperate with other immigrant owned businesses? 10:15 - How does the cooperative work? 15:30 - How has your business changed with COVID? 18:15 - How does your assortment continue to change and evolve through...

Episode #22 Notes 1:00 - Chicago Food Policy Action Council - how did you get interested in food policy and reforms? 3:45 - How did the Chicago Food Policy Action Council come about? 5:45 - What is the vision and mission? 6:45 - What are the challenges in the food system that you are trying to address? 10:30 - Who are the main stakeholders around goal setting, accountability, and impact? 12:30 - H...

Episode #22 Notes 1:00 - How did you get interested in Organic farming? 4:00 - What’s the mission of Farmshare Austin? 5:45 - What are the main program areas around farmer training? 7:15 - How do you teach, and what do your graduates go on to do? 11:00 - What can you grow in Central Texas, and what are the challenges? 13:15 - Tell us about your work in food access? 21:00 - What has been the respon...

Episode #21 Notes 1:00 - The Secret Life of Groceries and Perilous Bounty 1:30 - What motivated you to write The Secret Life of Groceries ? 4:00 - The low down on Trader Joe’s 9:45 - A day in the life at The Food Show 16:15 - Truckers and Co-Packers. 23:00 - Food supply chains in Southeast Asia. 27:00 - The affects of pricing and the “race to the bottom” 37:00 - Global trade treaties, labor standa...

Episode #20 Notes 0:45 - What is the mission and vision of Black Church Food Security Network? 2:45 - How and where do you operate? 4:30 - How should we think about the role of the Black church being connected to the Black freedom struggle? 6:00 - How is food connected to the Black freedom struggle? 8:30 - What have you seen regarding food insecurity first hand, pre and during COVID? 10:30 - Who a...

Episode #19 Notes 1:00 - What inspired you to start Soul Fire Farm? 2:15 - Tell us about your farming practices, the origins of these practices, and how they’ve been appropriated? 5:15 - How might you critique the Organic farming standard especially around BIPOC farmers around the US? 6:20 - How is Soul Fire Farm enabling food access in your community, and how is it rooted in food sovereignty? 8:3...

Episode #18 Notes 1:00 - What motivated you to become a chef? 2:00 - How has white settler colonialism impacted the food ways of the indigenous people in the US? 3:45 - On weaponizing foods. 5:40 - What has the impact of “the standard American diet” on native people in the US? 10:30 - How did you end up working with Sean Sherman? 14:45 - What are some of the traditional, pre-contact foods you use...

Episode #17 Notes 1:00 - What motivated you to become a social justice organizer? 3:15 - What were some of the biggest challenges in organizing with undocumented immigrants? 6:15 - Why should we see undocumented workers as truly essential to our economy and the health of our communities? 9:45 - What are some of the biggest victories and letdowns in your organizing work? 12:45 - Is there cooperatio...

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