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Repast
A food law and policy podcast from the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA Law. Each month we interview a thought leader in the field of food law and policy to discuss past achievements, current developments, and future challenges.
Episodes
29 episodes
Looking at the "to" in Farm to Table with Nicola Twilley
In this episode, Michael and Diana talk with Nicola Twilley, the author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which l...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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41:41
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Not Even Customer Service Knows: Discussing the disclosure of animal-derived ingredients on package labels with Amanda Howell
This month on Repast Michael and Diana talk with Amanda Howell, managing attorney at the Animal Legal Defense Fund. They discuss a recent petition by the ALDF to the FDA urging the FDA require the disclosure of animal-derived ingredients on pac...
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30:54
All Chocolate is Not Sweet: A Conversation with Catherine Sweetser
In this episode, Michael and Diana talk with Catherine Sweetser, Deputy Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and the Director of the Human Rights Litigation Clinic at UCLA Law. Here, Professor Sweetser discusses her work against s...
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33:11
Milk – does it do a body good? A discussion of the politics of U.S. food law and policy with Andrea Freeman
This month, Repast welcomes Southwestern Law School Professor Andrea Freeman to discuss her book, Ruin Their Crops on the Ground: The Politics of Food in the United States, from the Trail of Tears to School Lunch, published by Macmillan ...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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31:49
Who Isn't Happy After a Good Meal? Austin Frerick and the Corruption of the Food Industry
Our guest at Repast this month is Austin Frerick, author, and expert on agricultural and antitrust policy, talking with us about his new book, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry (March 2024). In Barons, Fr...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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32:55
Endangered Eating with Sarah Lohman
This month, Repast welcomes Sarah Lohman, culinary historian, author, and speaker, about her new book, Endangered Eating: America’s Vanishing Foods. In this book, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, a Food & Wine Best Book o...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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41:11
Getting a Full Stomach of Information with Professor Xaq Frohlich
In this episode of Repast, Michael and Diana were delighted to talk with Xaq Frohlich, Professor of History at Auburn University and author of From Label to Table: Regulating Food in the Information Age, recently published by the Unive...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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40:37
Get on the Bus with USDA’s Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity, Dr. Caree Cotwright
In this episode of Repast, Michael and Diana welcome Dr. Caree Cotwright, the Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity for the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. In her role at USDA, Dr. Cotwright leads a whole-of-department approa...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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29:36
Talking About Turmeric (and Food Fraud) with Wudan Yan
Today on Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Wudan Yan, an award-winning narrative journalist covering science and society, about an article she published in July of this year about lead-tainted turmeric. In this article, Wudan looked at ...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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39:19
Adrian Miller, Dropping Knowledge Like Hot Biscuits
This month, Repast welcomes Adrian Miller. Known as the Soul Food Scholar, Adrian Miller is a culinary historian, James Beard award-winning food writer, former White House staffer, and a certified BBQ judge. He is also a recovering ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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40:49
The Mechanic and the Philosopher: Professor Ernesto Hernández-López on trade policy
This month, Michael and Diana talk with Professor Ernesto Hernández-López from the Chapman University Fowler School of Law about a recent opinion piece he wrote for Al Jazeera titled “Drop it America and Canada: A Corn Clash with Mexico helps n...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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36:19
Food Oppression and the Pandemic Response with Professor Andrea Freeman
Repast welcomes University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law Professor Andrea Freeman to discuss her recent article, “Food Oppression in a Pandemic,” published in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. Professor Freeman ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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32:10
Novel Food Ingredients and Animal Testing with UCLA Law Professor Taimie Bryant
Welcome to 2023 and Season 3 of Repast! This month, Michael and Diana talk with UCLA Law Professor Taimie Bryant about her important new article, “Novel Food Ingredients: Food Safety Law, Animal Testing, and Consumer Perspectives,” publis...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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46:24
The Joy of Food and Drug Law with Peter Barton Hutt
In this month’s very special episode of Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Peter Barton Hutt, who is one of the premier figures in the modern development of food and drug law, and who has significantly shaped the field. Hutt is senior co...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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53:10
The Hard Problem of Food Fraud with Resnick Center Executive Director Michael T. Roberts
Today on Repast, Diana talks with Resnick Center Executive Director Michael T. Roberts about his new publication, “International and national regulatory strategies to counter food fraud,” which he wrote in conjunction with authors from the law ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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36:45
Filling Gaps in Food Safety Regulation with Professor Tim Lytton
In this episode of Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Professor Timothy Lytton, Professor of Law at Georgia State University about his new article, “Using Insurance to Regulate Food Safety: Field Notes From the Produce Sector,” published in th...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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34:50
USDA's Actions on Nutrition Security with Dr. Sara Bleich, Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity, USDA
This month on Repast, Michael and Diana talk with a very special guest, Dr. Sara Bleich, the Director of Nutrition Security and Health Equity for the Food and Nutrition Service, USDA. Dr. Bleich is leading the department’s work to counte...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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36:55
Talking About Toxic Baby Food Litigation with Michael Baum and Pedram Esfandiary
In this episode of Repast, Michael and Diana chat with Michael L. Baum and Pedram Esfandiary from the national law firm, Baum Hedlund Aristei & Goldman, about their current work in the ongoing toxic baby food litigation. In these cases, Bau...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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31:02
Land, Policy, and the Back Forty with Neil Hamilton
In this month on Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Neil Hamilton, Professor Emeritus and Former Director of the Agricultural Law Center at Drake University. Professor Hamilton has been a professor at Drake since 1983. Among other ...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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52:02
The Present and Future of Agricultural and Food Law with Professor Susan Schneider
In this episode of Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Susan Schneider, the William H. Enfield Professor of Law and the Director of the LL.M. Program in Agricultural & Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law. Professor Sc...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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31:17
Regenerative Agriculture with Evan Graham Arango
Today on Repast, Michael and Diana talk with Evan Graham Arango, the owner, founder and farmer at Ojai Roots Farm in Ojai, CA. Evan graduated UCLA Law in 2020 specializing in environmental law and taking courses in food and agricultural law and...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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34:39
Hyperlocality and Abundance with Jamiah Hargins
This month on Repast, Diana Winters and Beth Kent, a fellow in environmental law and policy at the Emmett Institute at UCLA Law, talk with Jamiah Hargins, founder of Crop Swap LA and the Asante Microfarm, about healthy food access, the need to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:35
Immigration Enforcement in Meatpacking Plants with Professor Jennifer Chacón
Today on Repast, Michael and Diana interview Professor Jennifer Chacón, Professor of Law at Berkeley Law, and previously a Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, about immigration enforcement in meatpacking and poultry processing plants.&n...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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46:05
Agribusiness Innovation with Joshua Hofheimer
In this episode of Repast, Michael sits down with Joshua Hofheimer, a partner at Sidley, whose practice focuses on representing clients in the agribusiness and food and information technology sectors, among other areas. Michael and Josh d...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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33:31
Protecting the Liver, Feeding the Gut, and Changing Society with Dr. Robert Lustig
This month, Michael and Diana talk with Dr. Robert Lustig about his new book, Metabolical, The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine. They talk about the health harms caused by processed foods and the ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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37:15