The Checkout: Grocery Nerds

Episode #43 Notes

1:00 - How did you get into plant-based ice cream?

3:00 - Why make it a business?

6:00 - Why are more customers moving toward plant-based dairy?

9:00 - What makes what Nadamoo is doing different than other plant-based food companies?

12:10 - What are your parameters around ingredient sourcing?

15:00 - How do you decide on the flavors and recipes for Nadamoo?

18:00 - On opening Nadamoo’s first scoop-shop.

21:00 - What’s the Nadamoo culture like?

25:00 - Biggest challenges of growing the Nadamoo company.

28:00 - What are Nadamoo’s retail and wholesale relationships like?

30:30 - How was Nadamoo financed?

39:00 - Book Recommendations!

Light Years, James Salter

The War of Art: Break Through The Blocks and Win Your Inner Battles, Steven Pressfield

High Hanging Fruit, Mark Rampolla

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Episode #42 Notes

Part 1: John Grant

1:00 - How many workers does your union represent and in what industries?

6:00 - Municipal hazard pay mandates and retail reaction.

15:30 - On labor activism on the ground.

18:00 - On well being of workers during COVID and the role of trade unions and their continuation of organizing.

24:00 - Outside of a union, what can other folks in the food sector do to support workers?

28:45 - Why are trade unions so important for workers in the retail sector?

30:45 - Closing thoughts.

Part 2: Maria Hernandez

32:45 - Tell us about your career in the grocery industry and the types of jobs you’ve had.

36:45 - What store do you work at and what’s your experience with the recent store closure?

39:40 - How wide spread have store closures been?

42:30 - How has retail changed in your 25 years of retail experience?

45:40 - How have store closures been communicated to retail staff?

46:30 - How has your union been involved with these closures?

50:45 - What kind of support is the community showing to retail staff?

52:00 - What would you ask listeners to do to support your cause?

58:30 - Closing thoughts.

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Episode #41 Notes

1:00 - Tell us about your background in the natural products industry?

2:30 - What’s been the most challenging - and rewarding - part of working the natural products industry?

4:30 - What are some of the products you’ve brought to market?

6:00 - How have consumer preferences evolved in the last couple decades?

7:45 - What attracts customers to certifications and high-attribute standards, like Organic and Regenerative Organic?

9:45 - How does someone go about breaking into Consumer Packaged Goods?

11:30 - What got you into confections and baked goods products?

13:30 - What are your ingredient sources standards, and how do they set you apart?

17:00 - What role can ethical CPG companies in evolving and repairing the food system?

18:15 - What does the food industry need to do to address racial inequities, climate change, and food apartheid?

23:00 - What do you look for when you’re investing in a food company?

26:00 - What are some red flags that companies are not a good fit?

29:00 - Case study on discrimination, anti-semitics, and hiring.

33:30 - Suggested readings?

Grant, Ron Chernow

Ramping Your Brand, James F. Richardson

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Jr., Ron Chernow

Mediocre, Ijeoma Oluo

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Episode #39 Notes

1:00 - Why did you become a doctor?

3:15 - What were your main areas of study and what degrees did you earn?

6:30 - How did your experience in public health impact your views on medicine and social change?

6:45 - What are the challenges in the food system that you are trying to address?

8:40 - How did you realize economic austerity measures were impacting public health?

12:00 - How does food and environmental justice issues intersect with health?

14:00 - What did you realize was underlying all the national public health crises?

17:00 - Why can’t our current health system address these health crises?

20:10 - What do you see elsewhere that our current healthcare system is lacking?

23:50 - What do we mean by Medicare For All, and how would it function?

26:30 - How would we pay for Medicare For All?

30:45 - How would patient care improve under some of these changes? Also, what’s the difference between Medicare For All and Universal Healthcare?

33:40 - What were your most popular policy platforms when you ran for governor?

35:30 - Suggested Readings?

Healing Politics: A Doctors Journey Into The Heart of Our Political Epidemic, Dr. Abdul Al-Sayed

An American Sickness, Elizabeth Rosenthal

America’s Bitter Pill, Steven Brill

Pharma, Gerald Posner

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Episode #37 Notes

1:35- How has Amazon changed the logistics game, especially during COVID?

4:40 - What are the working conditions really like in Amazon fulfillment centers?

8:00 - Who is working on the ground at Amazon?

11:45 - How do race and gender overlay labor issues at Amazon?

15:15 - Surveillance of Amazon workers and implications.

20:15 - What happens to communities when Amazon comes to town?

24:45 - Amazon in Seattle and New York.

29:30 - How Amazon fails it’s workers during COVID-19.

34:45 - How have workers and communities been organizing against Amazon?

40:15 - More on organizing efforts at Amazon.

46:00 - How to resist Amazon.

49:00 - Suggested readings!

The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy, Jake Alimohmed-Wilson and Ellen Reese

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff

Hammer and Hoe, Robin D. G. Kelly

Building Power from Below, Carolina Bank Munoz

Ours to Master Ours to Own, Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini

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Episode #36 Notes

1:00- How did you get involved in trade unions?

5:00 - Tell us about AFL-CIO

7:00 - What does “solidarity forever” mean to you?

8:00 - Why are there so few private sector unions in Texas? And of the ones that are active, what are they doing?

10:40 - COVID and impacts on essential workers and their families.

15:30 - What policies should be prioritized to protect workers in the supply chain?

19:30 - How is AFL-CIO preparing for the next set of crises?

21:30 - What are the greatest union job opportunities in food?

23:00 - On Right to Work laws and worker strikes.

24:30 - What is the Fair Shot for Texas Workers campaign?

26:30 - Where would you like to see AFL-CIO in 5 years?

28:00 - Closing thoughts on being in the labor movement.

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Episode #35 Notes

0:45 - What inspired the formation of Migrant Justice?

1:30 - Tell us about the migrant labor issues in Vermont, specifically on dairy farms?

6:15 - What are the goals and mission of Migrant Justice?

10:30 - On the Milk With Dignity campaign.

13:30 - Ben and Jerry’s involvement with Milk With Dignity.

17:20 - Who is the campaign currently pursuing, and why?

20:00 - COVID’s impact on organizing work.

23:45 - What are the most compelling achievements of Migrant Justice?

26:45 - On COVID’s spread on dairies.

30:00 - Worker-driven labor rights outcomes and efficacy.

31:45 - On shared ownership models.

33:15 - Suggested readings!

Life on the Other Border, Teresa M. Mares

We Are All Fast Food Workers Now, Annelise Orleck

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Episode #34 Notes

1:00 - How did you get involved in the good food movement?

7:00 - On Agronomy.

9:15 - How did you decide to focus on poultry?

14:45 - What is ‘Tree Range’ poultry?

22:00 - How do you define regenerative agriculture?

24:30 - What are the goals of the Regenerative Agriculture Alliance?

30:00 - Regenerative Agricultural and cultural appropriation.

37:20 - Regenerative Agriculture and Food Sovereignty.

40:00 - Book Recommendations!

Sacred Instructions, Sherri Mitchell

In The Shadow of Green Man, Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin

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