Graefekiez & How + What Are We Consuming

🎙️ ✨ EPISODE 2: How & What Are We Consuming?

Episode two zooms out to look at the global food system and question how people in the city understand industrial food processes. Where do people typically buy their food, and what factors do they consider when making those decisions? Has the convenience of industrial food made us loose touch with what is "good"?

 

Episode Flow

00:03 - Introduction: Humans & Our Global Food System

03:20 - Welcome to Graefekiez!

03:52 - Ali from Atlas Cafe + the importance of Kiez Cafes

07:12 - Micrologistics, food supply and Chelsea + CHOCO

10:40 - Grocery Delivery Services: Gorillaz, Flink, Getir

14:48 - How else are people on this side of the city normally getting their food? 

18:32 - Food Sovereignty & the way the global, Industrial Food System works

22:36 - Hannes & Cocktail Shrimp

24:10 - Community-focused grocery stores + Antje from Laib & Kase

28:13 - Sustainable Specialty Goods + Georgi from Caventura

37:15 - Some closing thoughts...

 

Links to resources

1. "Global food production is Our World in Data
2. "In Germany, four large companies – EDEKA, REWE, Aldi and the Schwarz Group (including Lidl) – share over 85% of the food retail market."
3. "Demand for food delivery grew by 10% during the COVID-19 crisis as many people with the privilege to stay home avoided crowded supermarkets – 26% of people in Germany currently order at least part of their groceries online."
4. "7% consumers in Germany currently use one of the newcomers to the food retail scene: companies like Gorillas, Flink, or Getir"
5. Gorillas Manifesto: https://gorillas.io/en/manifesto
6. Food Sovereignty Definition from The Declaration of Nyéléni: the first global forum on food sovereignty (Mali, 2007)
7. True Cost of Food? https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/articles/the-real-cost-of-food/
8. Terra Naturkosthandel: https://www.terra-natur.com/
9. Robinhood on Maybachufer: https://robinhood.store/
10. "Owner-operated small stores are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with the 130 or so organic supermarkets that now exist"

 

PRODUCTION

🌱 Audio for this episode was produced by Grettch ⬅️

🌱 Research support by Jess Stenhouse 

🌱 Script support by Itak Moradi 

🌱 Production, Script, Narration and Creative Direction by Samie Blasingame

 

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