Eat, Drink, and Do Good by Studio ATAO

Journalist Sohel Sarkar explains why lab-grown meat will neither save the planet nor feed the world. Some resources from the author:Lab Meat Won’t End Factory Farms, But Could Entrench Them - Food and Water WatchThe Politics of Protein - IPES-FoodLab-Grown Meat is Supposed to be Inevitable. The Science Tells a Different Story - The CounterClimate Impacts of Cultured Meat and Beef Cattle - FrontiersPlant-Based Food Companies Face Critics: Environmental Advocates - The New York TimesThe New Makers of Plant-Based Meat? Big Meat Companies - The New York Times

Cook & writer Annie Faye Cheng explores how restaurants can better serve their teams. Some resources recommended by the writer are: "Still taboo": Eating disorders are a silent epidemic in professional kitchens - SalonEating disorders - hospitality's last taboo? - ClassHappier employees, higher profits: Restaurant owners spend more, and it pays off - The CounterRestaurant health care 101 - Healthcare HQ

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, restorative justice advocate C. Dreams writes on the corrupt incentives pushing incarcerated workers into the food system.Some resources recommended by the writer are:Critical Resistance: Resources for Abolishing CagesLeaders Igniting Transformation Trans Family NetworkCenter for Workforce Inclusion Honest JobsPrison Policy Initiative's data reportThe Sentencing Project How Employers Can Set Formerly Incarcerated Up For Success

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, investigative journalist Chloe Sorvino shares an excerpt from her book RAW DEAL: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat.

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, an anonymous hospitality worker shares how a chronic illness diagnosis prompted them to leave the industry for good.

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, community organizer Emma Buchman writes on the Chernobyl accident, some of its heroes, and its unexpected impacts on her work. Some resources suggested by the author:Chernobyl:“The Chernobyl Podcast”Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam HiggenbothamMy Chernobyl: The Human Story of a Scientist and the Nuclear Power Plant Catastrophe by Alexander A. BorovoiImportant context to organizing:Racial Equity and Organizing: Disparities in Funding for Leaders of Color Leave Impact on the Table by Cheryl Dorsey, Jeff Bradach, and Peter Kim“Social Service or Social Change?” by Paul Kivel

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, researcher Likam Kyanzaire writes about what we can learn from the Great Resignation & "Lie Flat" protests.More on finding on human value:Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan WattsBlue Period on NetflixUntitled 03 by Kendrick Lamar (song)More on alienation and conspicuous consumption:The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein VeblenPaper Throne by Phum Viphurit (song)Anxiety of a Freeman, Mangoprism MagazineMore on radical change:Anarchism by Carissa HoneywellDemocratic Confederalism by Abdullah OcalanThe City Nowadays by L.A. Salami (song)More on the economics of neoliberalism:Younger Generations Are Poorer Than Their Parents by EconomicsExplainedAccumulation by Dispossession by David Harvey Around My Way (Freedom Aint Free) by Lupe Fiasco (song)

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, pastry chef Rose McAdoo writes on the importance of creating space for art inside carceral systems.Read Rose's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:ReadingsFormerly Incarcerated Artists Visualize Healing by Jasmine WeberMarking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. FleetwoodChasing Me To My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred RembertWatch & Listen13th by Ava DuVernayLife on the Outside — a podcast that shares stories about returning to society after decades of incarcerationResources & Organizations to SupportBrush up on current statistics on the Equal Justice Initiative websiteFinancially support carceral artists through the Art for Justice FundConnect with an incarcerated pen pal through the pARTner project at Justice Arts CoalitionConsider presenting your art with the Prison Arts Collective Purchase your next set of gifts from formerly incarcerated artists at Forgive Everyone Co.

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, community organizer Raeghn Draper writes on the ongoing inequities perpetuated by our culinary school programs, and how we can begin undoing them.Read Raeghn's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African-American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. TwittyBraiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall KimmererThe work of Tunde WeyThe Racist Sandwich podcast

In this episode of Eat, Drink, and Do Good, feminist organizer Zoya Rehman speaks about the need for sustained political activation beyond protests and demonstrations.Read Zoya's piece at www.studioatao.org/newsletter. Some additional resources on this topic recommended by the author are:Watch: The history of protest politics in America.Watch: A glimpse into the Aurat Azadi Jalsa held in Islamabad, Pakistan.Watch: Ismat Shahjahan talking about the Pakistani feminist movement from a socialist perspective.Learn: The Combahee River Collective Statement is an American example of what non-hierarchical feminist organizing should look like.Read: Black and Asian Solidarity Letter to learn more about what it could take to build feminist communities.