(2013/06/06) Part 2: Who's behind our food (Food)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 6 June 2013
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Edition #724
Part 2: Who's behind our food
Ch. 1: Intro - Theme: A Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith
Ch. 2: Act 1: Factory Farm Animal Abuse Video Ban Pushed by Lobbyists - Young Turks - Air Date: 03-19-13
Ch. 3: Song 1: Future is now - Dune
Ch. 4: Act 2: Ag biz gags on its own gag law - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 5-9-13
Ch. 5: Song 2: Choke - The Cardigans
Ch. 6: Act 3: Proposal: Make Undercover Livestock & Slaughterhouse Investigations Illegal - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-31-13
Ch. 7: Song 3: Right to know - King Kerosene
Ch. 8: Act 4: Turning people who report corporate crime into criminals - Jim Hightower - Air Date: 5-16-13
Ch. 9: Song 4: Who'll stop the rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Ch. 10: Act 5: Join the fight against Ag-Gag laws across the country - The UnFuck it Up Project
Ch. 11: Song 5: I didn't fuck it up - Katie Goodman
Ch. 12: Act 6: A Farmer Kills Himself Every 30 Minutes - You'll Never Guess Why - Lee Camp - Air Date: 01-31-13
Ch. 13: Song 6: Trebuchet - Popple
Ch. 14: Act 7: Even Tea Partiers Oppose the Monsanto Act - Young Turks - Air Date: 04-04-13
Ch. 15: Song 7: On a neck, on a spit - Grizzly Bear
Ch. 16: Act 8: A Farmer Takes On the Monarchy of Monsanto - The Progressive - Air Date: 2-19-13
Ch. 17: Song 8: Family farm - Chris Dorman
Ch. 18: Act 9: Monsanto is Taking Over Food - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 03-28-13
Ch. 19: Song 9: Monsanto - The Peacemasons
Ch. 20: Act 10: Monsanto v. Mother Nature: Guess who's winning? - Jim HIghtower - Air Date: 2-14-13
Ch. 21: Song 10: Cooperation - Jim Valley
Ch. 22: Act 11: The Monsanto Protection Act's Bought Republican - The Young Turks - Air Date: 04-13-13
Ch. 23: Song 11: Cello Song (feat. Jose Gonzalez) - The Books
Ch. 24: Act 12: How Monsanto Gained Power Over All 3 Branches Of Government - Lee Camp - Air Date: 04-02-13
Ch. 25: Song 12: Solid ground - Dougie Maclean
Ch. 26: Act 13: March Against Monsanto in 436 Cities IGNORED by Corporate Media - David Pakman Show - Air Date: 05-29-13
Ch. 27: Song 13: Tim man - The Avett Brothers
Ch. 28: Act 14: Monsanto Wins Fight to Take Away State Food Labeling Rights - Young Turks - Air Date: 05-26-13
Ch. 29: Song 14: Where have all the flowers gone? - Peter, Paul & Mary
Ch. 30: Act 15: Monsanto's Wheat Problem - The Progressive - Air Date: 5-31-13
Voicemails:
Ch. 31: Bacteria is everywhere, that's why we cook our food - Daniel from North Carolina
Ch. 32: Conservative perspective on gay marriage - Wade from Ft. Worth, TX
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Ch. 33: Final comments on why Wade isn't a bigot (congratulations) and I ask what you like about being the race you are
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by the members and donors to the show. |
| 0:05.6 | For details, visit the membership tab at vestivalf.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning Best of the Left Podcast with Cups Today from the Young |
| 0:12.3 | Turks. |
| 0:13.3 | Jim Hightower, the David Pakman Show, the Unfucked Up Project, comedian Lee Camp, and |
| 0:17.9 | the Progressive, and a preemptive silver lining for all the stories about corporate |
| 0:22.3 | secrecy you're about to hear. |
| 0:24.0 | Just remember that the less you know, the more blissful you're likely to be. |
| 0:30.0 | Alex, the American Legislative Exchange Council, those of the guys who create model legislation |
| 0:35.5 | that they then farm out to Republican legislatures around the country, try to get favorable legislation |
| 0:41.6 | on behalf of corporations written. |
| 0:43.0 | Well, they've got a new push that they're making now. |
| 0:46.2 | They are moving to criminalize the filming of animal abuse on factory farms. |
| 0:53.0 | The, the Alec is shipping around in six states, they would make it a crime to film animal |
| 0:56.2 | abuse factory farms, or to lie about your identity on a job application in order to get access |
| 1:02.8 | to a job to a slaughterhouse, to be able to film the animal abuse, felony criminal animal |
| 1:09.2 | abuse going on. |
| 1:11.1 | The meat industry has already come out and responded to say that they think that this |
| 1:15.4 | is a great idea. |
| 1:16.4 | They don't want to have anybody coming in and doing any secret work on that gun shocker |
| 1:20.5 | I know. |
| 1:21.5 | The Humane Society of the United States, a spokesman, when this story came out, he was asked |
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