Hope: Frances Moore Lappé
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by Rebecca McInroy, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
2y ago
“[Hope] is a key source of energy to enable us to seek solutions together.” -Frances Moore Lappé Hope is different from faith in that we need to act in hope as opposed to just having faith that everything will be okay. But in acting, when it comes to food, we are doing so and operating in a system where we know too much about food and the pesticides in our food system, the inequity, and injustice. So how can we have hope and what is hope? For the ancient Greeks, “Hope” was a type of self-deception; one of the evils of Pandora’s box. To the Christians, it was one of the 3 virtues. Kant asked ..read more
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Guam
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by Rebecca McInroy, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
2y ago
“We’re fighting for a worldview. We’re fighting for a different version of what it means to be human on the planet. We’re fighting for a different version of what just relations look like between the human and non-human world.” –Julian Aguon Guam is the secret ingredient for our conversation with indigenous human rights lawyer and author of The Properties of Perpetual Light, Julian Aguon. In his book, Aguon takes us on a dreamlike journey past the horrors and indignation of his colonized home to illuminate the beauty, the generative ecosystem, and indigenous knowledge that can quite literally ..read more
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TSI Weekend: Nationalism
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by Rebecca McInroy, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
“It is the most artificial thing that humans have ever built,” says Appadurai of nationalism. “That seems the most natural.” In this edition of The Secret Ingredient Weekend, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott and Rebecca McInroy summarize our show with Dr. Arjun Appadurai about food and nationalism – food trucks, Maggi noodles, cook books and much more ..read more
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Breast Milk: Kimberly Seals Allers (Ep. 16)
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by Rebecca McInroy, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
“When it comes to breastfeeding the ideal of choice verses the illusion of choice are two very different things,” argues Kimberly Seals Allers when talking about her new book, “The Big Let Down: How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding.” In this edition of The Secret Ingredient Allers makes the distinction between choices and options, and illustrates the confounding paradoxes when it comes to babies, mothers and health ..read more
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Pathogens: Rob Wallace (Ep. 15)
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by Rebecca McInroy, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
In this episode of The Secret Ingredient we talk with Rob Wallace, author of “Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science,” about pathogens, zika, bird flu, capitalism, and so much more ..read more
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Nationalism: Arjun Appadurai (Ep. 14)
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by Rebecca McInroy, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
People are interesting animals. We look to many things to help us understand our place and identity in this world. We have maps, passports, languages, families, clothes, books and (among so much more) we also have food. At first thought, we might not consider food as part of our identity. We might have toast for breakfast, a sandwich for lunch, soup for dinner and go to bed not thinking much about how that relationship to food constructs, not only your psychical bodies, but also our national identities. We might not think much of it, but anthropologist Arjun Appadurai does. “It is the most art ..read more
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Each Others: Rita Valencia and Charlotte Sáenz
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by Rebecca McInroy, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
“How do we build these understandings from a decolonial, antiracist and antipatriarchal basis? How do we build real solidarity bridges that do not replicate patronising structures of power? How can we learn and build with those who have resisted and re(x)isted, in order to open new imaginaries to heal mother earth, the other, and ourselves?” Rita Valencia and Charlotte Sáenz These are just some of the questions we explore with Rita Valencia and Charlotte Sáenz on this edition of The Secret Ingredient with Raj Patel, Tom Philpott, and Rebecca McInroy. Rita Valencia has been working for several ..read more
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V&B – The Past, Present, and Future of The Greek Economy
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by Jack Anderson, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
In this episode of Views & Brews,  KUT’s Rebecca McInroy joins the hosts of KUT’s The Secret Ingredient podcast, Tom Philpott and Raj Patel, as they sit down with the eminent economist James K. Galbraith author of the forthcoming “Welcome to the Poisoned Chalice: The Destruction of Greece and the Future of Europe” to talk inequality, the Greek debacle, prospects for social democracy in America, and more ..read more
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COVID-19 Series: Rob Wallace
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by Miles Bloxson, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
The Secret Ingredient with KUT’s Rebecca McInroy, Raj Patel author of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, and food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones, Tom Philpott welcome back Rob Wallace an evolutionary biologist for his take on the link between global outbreaks of infectious disease and global agriculture. Rob Wallace is the author of Big Farms Make Big Flu: Dispatches on Infectious Disease, Agribusiness, and the Nature of Science ..read more
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Politics and The Green New Deal: Ben Lilliston
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by Miles Bloxson, KUT & KUTX Studios, Raj Patel, Tom Philpott & Rebecca McInroy
3y ago
“The climate crisis is an emergency, it is a crisis and so we need to make major, major changes in our agriculture system.” Ben Lilliston is the Director of Climate Change and Rural strategies at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. He spoke with The Secret Ingredient team–Raj Patel, Tom Philpott, and Rebecca McInroy, about how the Green New Deal came about what has to happen in order for the GND to become a reality ..read more
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