Episode 103: Dr. Sarah Taber on Food Safety and Food System Viability
The Checkout speaks with Dr. Sarah Taber about food safety, elitism in the food movement and being a working class intellectual in the food industry.
Dr. Sarah Taber is an independent crop consultant. She specializes in Lean operations and food, worker, and environmental safety for greenhouses and food handling facilities. Dr Taber is writing a book and is also the host of the Farm to Taber podcast, looking at where the technical & people sides of agriculture meet.
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Sarah Taber
1:00 – How did you end up writing about food and farming?
9:15 - On food safety and it’s larger implications in food systems.
17:30 - On-farm food safety issues.
23:00 - On the roots of inequity and colonialism in the food system.
30:00 - On conventional food production and policy intersections.
37:30 - On the development of rural demographics.
48:15 - On Wendell Berry
57:00 - Critiques of the Good Food Movement.
1:05 - On farm viability.
1:13 - Book Recommendations!
