Everybody eats, but most of us don't participate in the planting, picking, production, and distribution of the food that keeps us going. Hi. I'm Tom Collikio. I'm a chef, a restaurateur, food advocate, and the host of the new podcast called Citizen Chef on I Heart Radio. In each episode, we'll look at how policy and politics affect the food that we put on our table. Let me repeat that under the boots that President the US in queens that's spending our boots
stand by more than nineteen billion dollars. That's a b reform will affect the lives of four women and children in America for a decade. And if we don't win, your farms are going to hell. Right, people might turn on the news and see the stories about the pandemic, immigration policy or healthcare. Icy stories about food on this podcast will toward the current political climate looking for in roads to food wherever we could find them from the
supply chain. Plants have closed nationwide, significantly, dropping the capacity for meat production in this country. To labor workers could be processing, you know, a hundred and fifty chickens per minute, just an unimaginable case of work. Are modern day slavery practices. First of all, I would say that we're all complicite. You know you're not more complicity than me. I'll talk to experts who can provide historical context and illuminate a more just path forward to the people who produce our
food and Mexico. These are the stories of our food. Starting June nine, listen to Citizen Chef on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, all wherever you get your podcasts.