The Checkout: Grocery Nerds

The Checkout: Grocery Nerds

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The Checkout: Grocery Nerds episodes

  • Episode 52: Megan Westgate and Linda Cognato of The Non GMO Project

    Episode #52 Notes

    1:00 - What are GMOs?

    5:25 - On the prevalence of GMOs.

    11:00 - Gene editing vs. gene silencing.

    14:30 - Private sector, financing, and GMOs.

    19:00 - What’s the motivation to bring new GMOs to market?

    24:30 - Labelling for GMOs.

    29:00 - On The Non GMO Project.

    35:30 - How do folks become Non GMO certified? How easy or difficult is it?

    38:45 - Certified Organic & Non GMO; differences and similarities.

    45:00 - Social justice and equity in and around the Non GMO Project.

    58:20 - Book Recommendations!

    Monocultures of The Mind, Vandana Shiva

    GMO Myths and Truths, John Fagan

    To Speak for The Trees, Diana Beresford-Kroeger

    The Gene: An Intimate History, Siddartha Mukherjee

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    1 hr 4 min
  • Episode 51: Sylvia Mallari of People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty

    Episode #51 Notes

    1:00 - What does food sovereignty mean?

    1:30 - What are the goals and vision for the People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty?

    3:20 - How are decisions made in the coalition?

    4:25 - What inspired the formation of the coalition?

    5:30 - What have farmers in countries like India, Philippines, Cambodia been experiencing recently?

    9:00 - What role do large institutional, international relief organizations play in supporting the global south?

    10:45 - On international and philanthropic relief organizations and unintended impacts in the southern hemisphere.

    16:00 - What is the UN Food Systems Summit, and why is it being boycotted by some organizations?

    27:00 - What is your coalitions alternative to our current food system trajectory?

    31:00 - Closing thoughts.

    People’s Coalition of Food Sovereignty Publications

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    34 min
  • Episode 50: Jon Allen Foster and Tristan Bock-Hughes of the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

    Episode #50 Notes

    1:00 - On food sector labor organizing.

    5:15 - On fast food management.

    7:00 - What instigated the formation of EWOC?

    13:30 - What’s the day-to-day during COVID?

    17:00 - On COVID’s effect on the lives of fast food workers.

    19:00 - On food service low-rates of unionization.

    31:00 - What’s the next 6 months looks like for the union and organizing at Taco Bell?

    35:00 - Are Taco Bell employees communicating about organizing at other locations?

    45:00 - On fast food as skilled vs. unskilled labor.

    51:00 - If you were running the restaurant, how would you run it?

    58:20 - From expendable to dignified.

    1:30:00 - Book Recommendations!

    Reverend Barber

    The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin

    Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

    There Is Power In A Union, Phillip Dray

    Iron Council, China Mieville

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    1 hr 39 min
  • Episode 48: Jose Vivero Pol on The Food Commons

    Episode #48 Notes

    0:30 - What do you mean by a “commons” and where does it orginiate?

    2:30 - On The Tragedy of The Commons, and why it’s BS.

    6:00 - What are some commons in our everyday lives that we might take for granted?

    9:00 - How is a food commons different than our current food system?

    15:50 - How do market relations interface with the commons?

    30:15 - What is preferable about a food commons?

    35:00 - What happens to the private market in a food commons system?

    42:30 - How do social movements and activism interface with food commons?

    48:00 - Book recommendations!

    Routledge Handbook of Food as a Commons, Jose Luis Vivero-Pol

    Free, Fair, and Alive, David Bollier and Silke Helfrich

    Re-Enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons, Silvia Federici

    Mutual Aid, Peter Kropotkin

    Governing The Commons, Elinor Ostrum

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    1 hr 1 min
  • Episode 46: Professor John Logan on the Anti-Union Industry

    Episode #46 Notes

    0:30 - What is Labor Studies, and what are your key focus areas?

    7:20 - What are the benefits of unionizing for workers?

    14:45 - Why has there been a decline in recent decades in private sector union jobs?

    27:40 - How are non-unionized jobs effected by the lack of unions when it comes to benefits, wages, working conditions, etc.

    40:30 - Gig workers, rapid hiring, and lack of unions.

    43:30 - On the union-avoidance industry.

    1:12 - Recommended readings!

    State of the Union, Nelson Lichtenstein

    Dying at Work, Jeff Pheifer

    The Fissured Workplace, David Well

    Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber

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    1 hr 27 min

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Formerly The Checkout, Grocery Nerds is the leading source for insider commentary and analysis on the $1.1 trillion U.S. grocery industry. Founded by 30 year industry veteran operator,…