FOOD FUTURES MOLD Magazine

What's so bad about using a gas stove? And is the Biden Administration really putting a ban on them? In order to understand why gas stoves have become such a contentious topic in the news, we reached out to Rebecca Leber. She’s a senior reporter at Vox, where she covers climate change. She’s been reporting about gas stoves long before they were making headlines, so she helps us understand what people have been getting wrong about the topic. She also gives us some realistic tips about how to go electric.

Whether you’re the target audience or not, you’ve probably come across one of The Liver King's videos before. He's infamous online for posting videos of himself eating raw meat.

Now, he's come under fire because it’s been revealed that he actually uses steroids in order to achieve the physique that he touts as a result of his diet.

On this episode of the Food Futures podcast, we’re joined by writer Jack Bachmann, who wrote an essay for MOLD Magazine about the Liver King. We talk about the ways that Raw meat diets are about a lot more than just food. Read Jack's full essay here: http://bit.ly/3kEKpsB

Alicia Kennedy is a food writer based in Puerto Rico. On this episode of the Food Futures podcast, she joins the show to discuss ways we can mitigate climate change through eating. Read Alicia's piece for MOLD reflecting on the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recommendations: http://bit.ly/3Hd4vSA

On this episode of the Food Futures podcast, artist Meech Boakye joins to discuss AI artwork and the world-building capacities and limitations of DALL-E 2.

How can we create more resilient communities and food systems in rejection of the capitalist obsession with infnite economic growth? 

Jamie Tyberg is a community organizer in New York City whose work centers around decolonization. On today’s episode, researcher and baker, Lexie Smith is in conversation with Jamie outlining the vision of degrowth as it relates to the future of food and agriculture.

Read a version of this Q&A here: https://thisismold.com/degrowth/degrowth-lexie-smith-jamie-tyberg-food-systems

Food Futures is a podcast from MOLD Magazine.

Credits:

Producer: Ludwig Hurtado

Associate Editor: Isabel Ling

Editor in Chief: LinYee Yuan

Cover art illustration by Cynthia Alfonso for MOLD Magazine.

On this episode of Food Futures, we speak to artist and writer Adriana Gallo, about preppers, preservation, rotting food, and much more. Her latest essay for MOLD is called "Cooking for the end of the world."