The Checkout: Grocery Nerds

1:00 – How did you end up writing about food and farming?

9:15 - On food safety and it’s larger implications in food systems.

17:30 - On-farm food safety issues.

23:00 - On the roots of inequity and colonialism in the food system.

30:00 - On conventional food production and policy intersections.

37:30 - On the development of rural demographics.

48:15 - On Wendell Berry

57:00 - Critiques of the Good Food Movement.

1:05 - On farm viability.

1:13 - Book Recommendations!

The Dictator’s Handbook

Terror Management Theory

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1:00 – Can you tell us a bit about what it’s like to farm in India?

4:00 – How is farming different and similar to farming in the US?

6:00 – What in India is farming concentrated?

10:30 – What are the socioeconomic policies being pushed in India government right now, and how does it impact farmers?

12:45 – How are these policies related to the 70’s Green Revolution?

19:00 – How have farmers resisted these laws and policies?

22:00 – What policies need to change in India?

24:00 – What can we do to support? 

26:00 – Book Recommendations!

Keep Moving On - The Migration of a Punjabi Sikh Family, Amred Singh

The Paradox of India’s Bread Basket, Malika Core

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1:00 – What got you interested in organizing foodworkers in meat processing?

5:00 – What is it like to work in a meat processing plant?

8:00 – How are meat processor workers treated by their employers?

10:30 – How has COVID impacted the lives and work of workers in meat processing plants?

14:30 – What role should OSHA play in regulating working conditions?

16:15 – How have workers responded to poor working conditions during COVID?

20:00 – How has COVID impacted the families and communities of their workers?

22:00 – What should the government do to balance meat processor power?

24:30 – What is your vision for organizing?

29:00 – What does a fair and just food system look like to you?

31:00 – How to support and additional resources.

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1:00 – What motivated you to build a compendium of agroecogology?

5:00 – What was discussed at the UN Food Summit you attended?

7:00 – Can agroecology feed the world?

11:00 – Is agroecology scalable?

15:30 – Can agroecology provide meaningful livlihoods?

18:00 – Can agroecology help solve climate change?

24:00 – How can agroecology be molded with the current framework for the globalized food system? 

28:30 – What is agroecology, exactly? 

31:30 – How do we prevent agroecology from being gentrified and commodified?

37:00 – What are the next steps for furthering agroecology?

39:00 – Closing thoughts.

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Episode #97 Notes

1:00 - What motivated you to start Saffron Road?

4:15 - What does halal mean? And what are the standards and certifiers around it?

8:00 - What was the path to market for your company?

11:20 - What were your biggest challenges getting to market in the first few years?

13:15 - How do you handle naysayers in the halal space?

21:00 - On Saffron Road’s certifications and sustainability standards.

24:00 - What lessons have you learned that you’d share with us?

28:00 - How have you managed through COVID?

32:45 - Tell us about your social impact through the purchases you make?

43:00 - Book Recommendations!

Green Deen, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin, Keith Ellison

Marketing to the New Majority, David Burgos

Halal Branding, Dr. Jonathan Wilson

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Episode #95 Notes

:30 How did you get interested in immigration and agriculture?

5:00 What is the premise of Fruits of Labor?

9:30 The political-economic context of farm work in the US.

15:00 What other parts of the food sector do you explore in this film?

23:30 On the experience of women in farm work.

36:30 What can we do to support your work?

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Episode #94 Notes

:30 The political-economic context for farm workers in the US, and its exclusion from labor laws.

3:00 How does immigration policy related to farm worker rights?

6:00 Where do a lot of farm workers come from in the US?

8:30 On agriculture in the Skagit Valley in Washington State.

12:30 On recent farm worker labor unrest and organizing in Washington State.

20:00 How have farm workers been treated during COVID?

27:00 How has climate change and extreme heat impacted farm workers?

33:00 How are farm workers organizing around food soverignty?

40:00 Closing thoughts.

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