The Checkout: Grocery Nerds

Episode #93 Notes

:30 Why did you make “They’re Trying to Kill Us”?

2:00 On growing up in Ferguson, Missouri influence you?

5:00 On food related health outcomes.

7:30 On Racial Capitalism and defining Food Deserts.

13:00 Industrial animal food product and chronic disease in black communities.

17:00 Interconnectivity between large corporate interests.

20:00 Harnessing the power and motivation of Black Lives Matter and other movements around the country.

22:00 What are the benefits of a plant-based diet?

28:00 Goals and hopes for folks who watch this film.

30:45 Closing thoughts.

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Episode #92 Notes

:30 Introduction to Agroecology
7:05 Areas of research
9:50 What is Agroecology
12:15 Research strategies
15:40 Agroecology and Regenerative Ag
18:00 Agroecology and GMOs
23:00 Agroecology, Justice and Farmers
29:20 Local food systems
39:50 A Just transition
48:50 Further Reading

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Episode #90 Notes

Jessica Choy, Campaign Director of Unite Here

1:00 - What is Unite Here? And why is Unite Here organizing against Hello Fresh?

4:15 - What was it like working in a Hello Fresh facility during COVID-19?

8:45 - What spurred this campaign at Hello Fresh?

10:30 - What are workers hoping to achieve through organizing at Hello Fresh?

12:00 - Where do you see the labor movement going in the US?

14:00 - Why would you encourage someone to organize?

John Youngston, Shipping Department at Hello Fresh

18:45 - Tell us about what you do at Hello Fresh.

19:30 - What’s it been like working at Hello Fresh during COVID-19?

21:00 - What got you interested in forming a union at Hello Fresh?

22:15 - What are the benefits of forming a union?

23:15 - Why is there so much labor unrest in the last few months in the food industry?

25:15 - How has Hello Fresh reacted to the labor organizing efforts?

26:15 - What should we know about how we should improve the food system?

28:00 - How can we support your campaign?

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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 greenwashing and cellular agriculture.

26:30 - On food tech and experiments gone awry.

35:30 - What happened to health as a core value in veganism?

43:00 - Book Recommendations!

Winners Take All, Anand Giridharadas

Billion Dollar Burger, Chase Purdy

A Foodie’s Guide To Capitalism, Eric Holt-Gimenez

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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 Recommendation

The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi

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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 is it replicable?

35:00 - How is Dr. Bronner’s approach creating a more fair and just food system?

40:00 - Book Recommendations!

Honor They Label, Gero Leson

The Carbon Farming Solution, Eric Toensmeier

Entangled Lives: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our future, Merlin Sheldrake

Agroecology: Science and Politics, Rosset and Altieri

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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.

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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 workers organize?

12:30 - How can folks support this work?

17:50 - Overview of the Amazon labor organizing campaign.

32:00 - Closing thoughts.

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