Episodes

  • Hope: Frances Moore Lappé

    Hope: Frances Moore Lappé
    25 Oct 2021
    “[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 […]
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    48 min
  • Guam

    Guam
    14 Jul 2021
    “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 […]
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    34 min
  • Each Others: Rita Valencia and Charlotte Sáenz

    Each Others: Rita Valencia and Charlotte Sáenz
    15 Jul 2020
    “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?” […]
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    54 min
  • COVID-19 Series: Rob Wallace

    COVID-19 Series: Rob Wallace
    1 May 2020
    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 […]
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    46 min
  • Politics and The Green New Deal: Ben Lilliston

    Politics and The Green New Deal: Ben Lilliston
    7 Feb 2020
    “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, […]
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    40 min
  • The Green New Deal for Agriculture: Jim Goodman and Raj Patel

    The Green New Deal for Agriculture: Jim Goodman and Raj Patel
    22 Jan 2020
    “We need to change society so everybody can fit in and everyone can afford to live in a decarbonized society.” – Jim Goodman In this episode of The Secret Ingredient host Raj Patel plays double-duty — he is not just a host, but joins Jim Goodman as a guest. The two discuss what A Green […]
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    58 min
  • The Green New Deal in Texas: Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez

    The Green New Deal in Texas: Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez
    10 Dec 2019
    Explore the future of the Green New Deal and what it means for Texas with Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez. Tzintzún is challenging John Cornyn for the 2020 US Senate seat for the State of Texas. She is the Co-founder of the Workers Defense Project and Jolt, and she talked with The Secret Ingredient team–Raj Patel, Tom […]
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    46 min
  • Social Movement: Naomi Klein

    Social Movement: Naomi Klein
    11 Nov 2019
    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 explore the future of the Green New Deal with Naomi Klein, author of “On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal.”
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    50 min