Episode 11: "The Baking (and Conquest) of Bread"

Sep 3, 2018

In this week's show, Bree and Pearson dive into one of their favorite topics: food. But, before that, some current events:

• A new update from IWOC has surfaced discussing the August 21-September 9 prison strike.
• The U.N. accuses U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition of war crimes in Yemen.
• 150,000 people are thought to have starved to death in Yemen last year, with one child dying of starvation or preventable diseases every ten minutes, and another falling into extreme malnutrition every two minutes.
• Nazis are marching openly in the streets of German.
• A 5-year-old girl in ICE detention almost died from a ruptured appendix

The bulk of today's episode offers a deep dive into food: how it's produced and consumed, how economic class and corporate power limit our dietary options, and the gendered and patriarchal role of food advertisements. Bree and Pearson chat briefly about their dietary history growing up as well as the ingenious and sustainable visions of agriculture championed by indigenous peoples, then dive into a discussion of plant-based diets and the intersections our food has with global climate change. Finally, the show closes with some recipe advice from Bree and Pearson paints a vision of fully-automated, luxury, queer anarcho-communism.

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Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie

Outro: "Birth of the Economic Hitman" by Circa Survive