Eat, Drink, and Do Good by Studio ATAO

1. Lab Meat Won’t End Factory Farms, But Could Entrench Them - Food and Water Watch
2. The Politics of Protein - IPES-Food
3. Lab-Grown Meat is Supposed to be Inevitable. The Science Tells a Different Story - The Counter
4. Climate Impacts of Cultured Meat and Beef Cattle - Frontiers
5. Plant-Based Food Companies Face Critics: Environmental Advocates - The New York Times
6. The New Makers of Plant-Based Meat? Big Meat Companies - The New York Times

1. "Still taboo": Eating disorders are a silent epidemic in professional kitchens - Salon
2. Eating disorders - hospitality's last taboo? - Class
3. Happier employees, higher profits: Restaurant owners spend more, and it pays off - The Counter
4. Restaurant health care 101 - Healthcare HQ

• Critical Resistance: Resources for Abolishing Cages
• Leaders Igniting Transformation
• Trans Family Network
• Center for Workforce Inclusion
• Honest Jobs
• Prison Policy Initiative's data report
• The Sentencing Project
• How Employers Can Set Formerly Incarcerated Up For Success

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, investigative journalist Chloe Sorvino shares an excerpt from her book RAW DEAL: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat.

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, an anonymous hospitality worker shares how a chronic illness diagnosis prompted them to leave the industry for good.

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, community organizer Emma Buchman writes on the Chernobyl accident, some of its heroes, and its unexpected impacts on her work. Some resources suggested by the author:

Chernobyl:

• “The Chernobyl Podcast”

• Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higgenbotham

• My Chernobyl: The Human Story of a Scientist and the Nuclear Power Plant Catastrophe by Alexander A. Borovoi

Important context to organizing:

• Racial Equity and Organizing: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table by Cheryl Dorsey, Jeff Bradach, and Peter Kim

• “Social Service or Social Change?” by Paul Kivel

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, researcher Likam Kyanzaire writes about what we can learn from the Great Resignation & "Lie Flat" protests.

More on finding on human value:

• Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

• Blue Period on Netflix

• Untitled 03 by Kendrick Lamar (song)

More on alienation and conspicuous consumption:

• The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen

• Paper Throne by Phum Viphurit (song)

• Anxiety of a Freeman, Mangoprism Magazine

More on radical change:

• Anarchism by Carissa Honeywell

• Democratic Confederalism by Abdullah Ocalan

• The City Nowadays by L.A. Salami (song)

More on the economics of neoliberalism:

• Younger Generations Are Poorer Than Their Parents by EconomicsExplained

• Accumulation by Dispossession by David Harvey

• Around My Way (Freedom Aint Free) by Lupe Fiasco (song)

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, pastry chef Rose McAdoo writes on the importance of creating space for art inside carceral systems.

Read Rose's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:

Readings

• Formerly Incarcerated Artists Visualize Healing by Jasmine Weber

• Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood

• Chasing Me To My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert

Watch & Listen

• 13th by Ava DuVernay

• Life on the Outside — a podcast that shares stories about returning to society after decades of incarceration

Resources & Organizations to Support

• Brush up on current statistics on the Equal Justice Initiative website

• Financially support carceral artists through the Art for Justice Fund

• Connect with an incarcerated pen pal through the pARTner project at Justice Arts Coalition

• Consider presenting your art with the Prison Arts Collective

• Purchase your next set of gifts from formerly incarcerated artists at Forgive Everyone Co.

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, community organizer Raeghn Draper writes on the ongoing inequities perpetuated by our culinary school programs, and how we can begin undoing them.

Read Raeghn's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:

• The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• The work of Tunde Wey

• The Racist Sandwich podcast

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, feminist organizer Zoya Rehman speaks about the need for sustained political activation beyond protests and demonstrations.

Read Zoya's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:

• Watch: The history of protest politics in America.

• Watch: A glimpse into the Aurat Azadi Jalsa held in Islamabad, Pakistan.

• Watch: Ismat Shahjahan talking about the Pakistani feminist movement from a socialist perspective.

• Learn: The Combahee River Collective Statement is an American example of what non-hierarchical feminist organizing should look like.

• Read: Black and Asian Solidarity Letter to learn more about what it could take to build feminist communities.