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The Checkout — 89 episodes

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#14: Kara Rubin's Grocery Journey From Whole Foods to Brand Building

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#11: Alicia Kennedy's Journey: From Vegan Bakery to Food Critic

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#7 How Legislation Can Lower Food Prices and Support Small Grocers

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#5 Jose Oliva: Solving Food Industry Problems with HEAL Food Alliance

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#3 How Dr. Bronner's Is Redefining Business with Purpose

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Episode 183: Peter Gialantzis of Pod Foods

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Episode 85: Starbucks Workers United

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Episode 84: Stuart Appelbaum of RWDSU: Organizing Farmworkers and Amazon Employees

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Episode 83: Joe Fassler Dissects Cultivated Meat

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Episode 82: On The Kellogg’s Picket Lines With BCTGM

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Episode 81: Chris Smalls on Unionizing Amazon

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Episode 80: Joe Fassler on Regenerative Agriculture’s Reckoning

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Episode 79: Notes on Food Apartheid in the U.S.

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Episode 78: Inflamed- A Conversation with Dr. Rupa Marya & Professor Raj Patel

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Episode 77: Lauren Baker on True Cost Accounting and The UN Food Summit

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Episode 76: Million Belay, Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa

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Episode 75: Errol Schweizer Keynote on Justice and Dignity in Supply Chains

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Episode 74: Sarah Jaffe On Why Work Won’t Love You Back

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Episode 73: Grocery Update: Understanding The Dairy Industry

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Episode 72: Labor Day Series: Brandworkers- Good Jobs, Local Food

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Episode 71: Labor Day Series: BCTGM Union Workers Strike Nabisco

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Episode 70: Grocery Update: Understanding Supply Chain Issues + Ethnic Aisles

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Episode 69: Miyoko Schinner of Miyoko’s Creamery

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Episode 68: Tyler Mayoras, Founder of Cool Beans

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Episode 67: Pam Koch on Universal Free School Lunch

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Episode 66: No Evil Foods Workers Speak Out

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Episode 65: Grocery Update: Fair Trade Spilled Milk. Guy Fieri Is Wrong On Workers. FDA’s New GMO Labeling Reg’s.

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Episode 64: Juneteenth Features: Brooklyn Packers & Brooklyn Supported Agriculture

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Episode 63: Juneteenth Features: Forty Acres Fresh Market

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Episode 62: Juneteenth Features: Dr. Howard Conyers on The Black History of BBQ

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Episode 61: Grocery Update: Food Processing, Gig Workers and GMO Labeling

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Episode 60: Why Juiceland Workers Went On Strike

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Episode 59: Grocery Update- Cultivated Meat, the Wage Shortage and Retail Automation

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Episode 58: Esther West on The Promise and Potential of Worker Cooperatives

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Episode 57: Professor Gabriel Rosenberg

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Episode 56: Ligia Guallpa of Worker’s Justice Project

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Episode 55: Alicia Kennedy

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Episode 54: Margaret Smith, The Common Market Texas

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Episode 53: Grocery Update. May 14th, 2021: What is Agroecology? Why Fair Trade Dairy Fails & more.

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

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Episode 51: Sylvia Mallari of People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty

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

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Episode 49: Grocery Update. May 7th, 2021: Dairy Pride Act? Organic Sector Growth & more.

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Episode 48: Jose Vivero Pol on The Food Commons

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Episode 47: Grocery Update. May 4th, 2021: Universal School Meals Now! + Why Maslow Was Wrong & more.

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Episode 46: Professor John Logan on the Anti-Union Industry

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Episode 45: The Weekly Special. The Indian Farmers Uprising & more.

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Episode 44: The Weekly Special. Plant Based Foods, Labor Organizing & more. Dedicated to Jay Brito, RIP.

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Episode 43: Daniel Nicholson of NadaMoo!

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Episode 42: UFCW Local 770, Hazard Pay and The Struggle For Dignity

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Episode 41: Greg Fleishman

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Episode 40: Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on Medicare For All

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Episode 39: Why We Need A Public Food Sector

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Episode 38: The Weekly Special. Pass the PRO-Act & more.

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Episode 37: Amazon’s Racial Capitalism: The Cost of Free Shipping

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Episode 36: Montserrat Garibay

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Episode 35: Marita Canedo of Migrant Justice on “Milk With Dignity”

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Episode 34: Reginaldo Hasslet-Marroquin: Decolonize and Indigenize Regenerative Agriculture

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Episode 33: Karen Washington, on Farming, Food Justice and Community Organizing

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Episode 32: Farmer Rishi on Regeneration, Equity and Representation

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Episode 31: Claire Kelloway on Prop 22, Big Tech and Reviving the Anti-Trust Movement

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Episode 30: Winona LaDuke

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Episode 29: Part 3 of 3, Worker Ownership and the Solidarity Economy, By Errol Schweizer

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Episode 28: Part 2 of 3, The Collective Bargain. By Errol Schweizer

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Episode 27: Andres Bernal Talks Money

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Episode 26: The COVID Receipts. Part 1 of 3, By Errol Schweizer

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Episode 25: Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and The Fair Food Program

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Episode 24: Nishiki Maredia on Retail Innovation and Social Justice Organizing

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Episode 23: Ma'raj Sheikh and Good Food Policy Action in Chicago

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Episode 22: Michelle Akindiya of Farmshare Austin

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Episode 21: Benjamin Lorr and The Secret Life of Groceries

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Episode 20: Rev. Heber Brown of The Black Church Food Security Network

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Episode 19: Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm

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Episode 18: Brian Yazzie On Cooking In Two Worlds

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Episode 17: Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez On Organizing Essential Workers

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Episode 16: Errol Schweizer on Taste Radio

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Episode 15: Chris Smalls and The People Vs. Amazon

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Episode 14: Leah Douglas on Covid19, OSHA and meat plant workers

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Episode 13: Dr. Naya Jones on Food Sovereignty and Collective Healing

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Episode 12: Lorig Hawkins of Middle Ground Farm

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Episode 10: Chris Maestro, Founder of Bierwax

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Episode 9: Alexa Delwiche, Center for Good Food Purchasing

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Episode 8: David Zuckerman: Gubernatorial Candidate and Lt. Governor of Vermont

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Episode 7: Tom Philpott On A Food System In Crisis… and How To Fix It.

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Episode 6: Farming While Black in Austin, TX with Tiffany Washington

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Episode 4: Jose Oliva on Building a Worker-Centered Food System, Part 2

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Episode 3: Jose Oliva on Building a Worker-Centered Food System, Part 1

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Episode 2: Carla Vernón on Leadership, Equity, and Scaling Good Food

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Episode 1: Raj Patel on Food Sovereignty