The Checkout speaks with CEO and Co-founder of Yellowbird Hot Sauce about a controversial new supplier policy being rolled out by the grocery industry’s largest natural and organic product wholesaler.

The Checkout does a deep dive on the Robinson-Patman Act with antitrust scholar Daniel Hanley of the Open Markets Institute.

The Checkout presents part two of an interview with Timothy Wise on the Mexican resistance to U.S.-grown GMO corn. Mexico’s case rests on science and is a huge challenge to GMO dogma.

The Checkout presents part one of a two part interview with trade policy scholar Timothy Wise on the Mexican resistance to U.S.-grown GMO corn.

The Checkout dives into the Farm Bill with Navina Khanna of HEAL Food Alliance and what food workers want to see in this massive legislation.

The Checkout presents this unpublished interview with Phil Howard on how corporate concentration threatens our food supply.

The Checkout presents a revealing conversation with labor historian John Logan about how “progressive” companies like Starbucks, Trader Joe’s and Amazon want to gut labor law and make it impossible to form unions.

The Checkout host Errol Schweizer returns with a deep dive grocery update on retail consolidation, scaling cooperatives and reinventing food processing.

The Checkout speaks with antitrust expert and author Austin Frerick on power, corruption and the need for radical change in the food industry.

The Checkout returns to Arkansas to talk to Magaly Licolli of Venceremos about how workers and faith activists are taking on Big Chicken.

You are not going crazy. Grocery prices are 30% higher than a few years ago. Some categories are up over 50%. And food companies have leveraged global crises to raise prices and rake in huge profits while selling less actually products. What an amazing hustle, if you are an executive or a shareholder! As for the rest of us, we now pay more for less food.

The Checkout speaks with Anna Hammond of Matriark Foods about food processing, food waste and why packaged food brands need to invest in sustainable, regionalized supply chains.

The Checkout speaks with Rebecca and Josh Tickell about their groundbreaking new film, Common Ground.

The Checkout speaks with Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, activist filmmakers who have documented the growth of the Cooperative Movement in Cincinnati in their new film, “Works For All”.

Ellen Cassedy was a founder of the 9 to 5 organization in 1973. She is the coauthor of 9 to 5: The Working Woman’s Guide to Office Survival (with Karen Nussbaum) and The 9 to 5 Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment(with Ellen Bravo).

Trader Joe’s United, an independent union of grocery workers, returns to The Checkout to discuss their campaign history, struggles, successes and frustrations.

The Checkout checks in with Lauren Baker of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food. What went on at the annual United Nations conference on climate change, COP28, and how does it relate to the food industry?

The Checkout does a deep dive with journalist Ryan Cooper on why grocery cooperatives are so mainstream and dominant in Finland.

The Checkout speaks with grocery store workers Rachel Fournier and Jess Crowley of UFCW 770 about why they are taking a stand against the biggest grocery merger ever.

The Checkout speaks with Chloë Waterman of Friends of the Earth and The Federal Good Food Purchasing Coalition about how integrating Good Food Purchasing Standards into federal food procurement can change the food system.

The Checkout presents part 2 of a two part conversation with Dr. Sarah Taber about demystifying how food supply chains function and how to make them more transparent, accessible and sustainable. Originally published as an interview on Farm To Taber. Dr. Sarah Taber is a scientist and food systems advocate running for Secretary of Agriculture in North Carolina.

The Checkout speaks with Chef Ora Wise and digs into the heart of Jewish Anti-Zionist identity and how the occupation of Palestine is a food and land justice issue.

The Checkout presents this exclusive new interview with Dr. John Fagan, a leading researcher on food integrity and transparency. Dr. John Fagan is a pioneer in applying biological research techniques to understanding what is in our food. He was an early adopter of GMO testing and has more recently applied mass spectrometry to understand the nutrient density of foods down to the molecular level. His latest research takes aim at the synthetic biology industry, also called “precision...

Reem Assil is a California based chef of Syrian and Palestinian heritage. Over 20 members of her family have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza. Thousands of Palestinian civilians have been killed in the recent years before the Hamas atrocities in southern Israel. For Chef Asil, “from the river to the sea” holds promises of self-determination, multicultural democracy and freedom for her family and community after 75 years of exile from their land and liberty.