Hosted and produced by two Organic food and farming lifers, The Checkout brings forward diverse voices and stories from the frontlines of our food system. Now more than ever, our food system is in a constant state of flux, radical change and crisis. From farm, retail and wholesale sector analyses to public policy, labor organizing and community struggles, The Checkout will expand the horizon for consumers and food industry professionals of what is possible and what is necessary to create a j ...
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Deep dives on agriculture, the food system, and money. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 184: Nasser Abufarha and Canaan Fair Trade
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Episode 183: Peter Gialantzis of Pod Foods
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Episode 182: The Regenerative Organic Certification
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Episode 181: “Shoptalk #2”: Understanding Wholesalers
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Episode 180: “Shoptalk”, with Co-Host Eve Cohen
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Episode 179: George Milton On The UNFI SSA Controversy
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Episode 178: Robinson-Patman Act 101 with Daniel Hanley
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Episode 177: Part Two: Mexico Takes on GMO Dogma
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Episode 176: Part One: The U.S.-Mexico GMO Corn Standoff
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Episode 175: HEAL Food Alliance Takes On The Farm Bill
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Episode 174: Phil Howard On Food Industry Consolidation
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Episode 173: Who Wants To Kill The NLRB? With Professor John Logan
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Episode 172: Grocery Update: Reinventing Retail and Food Processing
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Episode 171: Austin Frerick Takes On The Grocery Barons
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Episode 170: Magaly Licolli On Stopping Child Labor
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Episode 169: Why Your Groceries Are So Damn Expensive
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Episode 168: Matriark Foods Is Reinventing Food Processing
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Episode 166: Why A Worker Cooperative “Works For All”
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Episode 165: Ellen Cassedy on “Working 9 to 5”
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Episode 164: Trader Joe’s United Returns To The Checkout
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Episode 163: COP28 Recap with Lauren Baker
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Episode 162: Finnish Retail Cooperatives, with Ryan Cooper
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Episode 161: Why Grocery Workers Oppose the Kroger-Albertsons Merger
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Episode 160: Chloë Waterman On Reforming Public Food Procurement
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Episode 159: Public Sector Food Supply Chains With Dr. Sarah Taber, Part 2
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Episode 158: Chef Ora Wise On Fighting Food Apartheid in Palestine
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Ora Wise is a Brooklyn-based chef, community organizer, cultural producer, and educator whose current work invests in community controlled and regenerative food systems. For over a decade, Ora focused on media-based education, including co-facilitating the Palestine Education Project's high school program Slingshot Hip Hop: Culture & Resistance fro…
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Episode 157: Dr. John Fagan’s Concerning New Findings About “Animal Free” Dairy
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Episode 156: Chef Reem Assil, Gaza and Hospitality For Humanity
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Episode 155: Talking Grocery and Public Food With Dr. Sarah Taber, Part One
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DIY isn't enough: systematic change with Cory Doctorow
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This episode, Cory Doctorow comes on to talk about how profits are political: individualistic DIY solutions aren't enough, and it takes large-scale political changes to level the playing field. We talk about how rank-and-file people can mobilize to advocate for ourselves, even when we're up against food and tech giants that seem unbeatable. • Menti…
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Episode 154: Why Anchor Steam Should Become A Worker Owned Co-op
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Food logistics for the people! Pt. 2 of interview with Errol Schweizer [TRAILER]
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Here's the rest of the interview with Errol Shweizer! You can listen to the whole episode on Patreon. Transcript for the trailer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 153: Kathy Finn of UFCW770 On Keeping Grocery Workers Safe
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Deep dive: food distribution with Errol Schweizer
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There's a saying in food justice: "There's plenty of food to feed everyone! The problem is distribution." But when we talk about reforming the food system, farms get all the spotlight. We rarely focus on distribution- even though we know it's the key to solving hunger. How does food get from the farm to people? Who decides where crops should go? Wo…
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Episode 152: Cooperation Now More Than Ever: Grocery Cooperatives At Scale - Part 2
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Episode 151: Cooperation Now More Than Ever: Grocery Co-ops in the Age of Crisis - Part 1
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Bonus episode: Chicken farming & money [TRAILER]
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This is a short clip of a bonus episode for Patreon followers. Subscribe to Farm to Taber on Patreon for the full episode! • Today we talk contract broiler farming! This is the type of farming famous for "giant barns full of chickens that the farmers don't own." If you've ever wondered why farmers would keep farming in a way that "everyone just kno…
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Ag & tech workplace culture with the Nightingales
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I ran into the Nightingales a few years ago on Twitter. They've spent years working to make jobs more humane (and even succeeding!) It quickly became clear that we're running into a lot of the same workplace problems in our respective industries. But how? I'm in agriculture, and they're in tech! What's going on? We talk about how sucky jobs in any …
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Mailbag Q&A with Hanah Ehrenreich [TRAILER]
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Indigenous food systems of the Midwest: interview with Dr. Susan Sleeper-Smith
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When sustainability advocates talk about Indigenous agriculture, it's often framed as folksy, timeless, hyperlocal, and incompatible with the modern world. Nothing could be further from the truth! Historian Susan Sleeper-Smith joins us to talk about the reality of how the Miami, Shawnee, Haudenosaunee, and other Indigenous communities in North Amer…
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