The Checkout

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 Berry57:00 - Critiques of the Good Food Movement.1:05 - On farm viability.1:13 - Book Recommendations!The Dictator’s HandbookTerror Management Theory

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 SinghThe Paradox of India’s Bread Basket, Malika Core

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.

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.

Episode #97 Notes1:00 - 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 EllisonMarketing to the New Majority, David BurgosHalal Branding, Dr. Jonathan Wilson