The Checkout: Grocery Nerds

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 cultivated meat.

39:00 - The economics and risks associated with cultivated meat companies.

42:10 - On the energy needs of cultivated meat

45:15 - How might the food system be truly repaired?

51:00 - Closing thoughts

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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

9:00 - What instigated the wave of strikes we’re seeing at Kellogg’s facilities?

10:00 - What has it been like with COVID in Kellogg’s facilities?

12:30 - What is at stake for this strike?

14:30 - Is Kellogg’s threatening to move production facilities to other countries?

17:30 - How can folks support BCTGM?

20:00 - Closing thoughts.

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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 tactics?

12:00 - What do we need to build a logistics system that’s fair, just, and equitable?

13:30 - What are the benefits of employees having and contributing to a union?

16:00 - Closing thoughts.

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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 Guthman

Dispossession, Pete Daniel

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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.

35:00 - On abolition, colonialism, and health.

40:00 - Decolonizing medicine.

55:00 - Interview Takeaways.

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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 to more conventional businesses? And how would it impact them?

27:30 - How does True Cost Accounting affect prices?

34:30 - How is GAFF getting involved in the UN Food Systems Conference?

37:00 - How do you pitch True Cost Accounting as a new norm?

40:00 - How does True Cost Accounting relate to climate change?

43:00 - What we can do to support True Cost Accounting.

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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?

20:00 - Closing thoughts.

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