29. Jack Monroe on why the poor aren't to blame, the horror of food poverty - and fighting for change
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 18 February 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Jack Monroe is so many things - an anti-poverty activist, chef extraordinaire, writer, and fighter against injustice. She talks to me about what it's like living through poverty, about the poor being blamed for their conditions, the horror of food poverty, her struggles with the government over feeding hungry children - and how we fight for change.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the podcast, Owen Jones here. Today, Jack Mumbo, they are an all-round |
| 0:12.6 | great egg, anti-poverty activist, a fighter against the horrifying scourge of food poverty, |
| 0:18.6 | not least during the pandemic. Someone who has made a really big impact, we talk about |
| 0:25.6 | a lot of stuff, including struggling back, fighting back against injustice, which they |
| 0:31.3 | so effectively do. To help us expand, please do support us if you can on Patreon.com for |
| 0:36.4 | a slash Owen Jones 84, as we expand our team and do more and more work, or the support |
| 0:41.4 | function that was, if you want, in the description. If you give us five stars in iTunes, you're |
| 0:47.2 | the best person in the world, and I will, I will stand by that, and it will help other |
| 0:51.8 | people listen. With all of that, please listen to me, and Jack. |
| 0:56.4 | I am exceptionally lucky to have the one, the only, Jack Monroe, with the world's most |
| 1:06.4 | excellent jumper, which, if you're listening to this on the podcast, is, you can describe |
| 1:11.0 | it, Jack, I'll let you describe your jumper. It's actually a replica of Princess Diana's |
| 1:17.0 | famous sheep jumper that she wore to the polo in 1979. Now, I'm not a natural royalist, |
| 1:22.9 | but as a child, I was like obsessed with Princess Diana. My mum used to go and visit an elderly |
| 1:27.6 | lady from church called Gladys, and I was sitting at a porch, reading her like society magazines |
| 1:33.3 | at the age of like eight, and I was very enamouredly with Princess Diana, and I loved that jumper, |
| 1:39.9 | and you can get like replica conversions of it, and someone got it for me for Christmas this year, |
| 1:45.6 | and it was literally over the moon. So it's a red jumper with, with like loads of white |
| 1:51.8 | sheep across it, with one little black sheep, then where the black sheep sits tends to depend |
| 1:56.3 | what under supporting garments I'm wearing at the time. Sometimes it's high on the hill, and sometimes it's |
| 2:00.9 | like quite low down. And yeah, so red jumper, having a white sheep, one little black sheep in the corner, |
| 2:08.0 | it's got sheep on the back as well. It is a really happy making jumper. I got sheep, I know, |
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