Meatpacking plants across the United States have become coronavirus hotspots—and workers at chicken plants are particularly vulnerable. Caitlin Esch, a senior producer at Marketplace, digs into the history behind chicken production in America and talks about what she’s learned over nearly a year of investigative reporting into labor conditions at poultry plants in the South. This episode of Bite is a collaboration with The Uncertain Hour, an investigative podcast from Marketplace’s Wealth and Poverty desk.
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58 – How to Grow Your Own Cocktail
57 - Bonus: Introducing The Mother Jones Podcast
56 – What the Rajneeshee Cult Was Cooking Up
55 – This Is the Best Kind of Milk
54 – Did Drinking Give Me Cancer?
53 – When Sexual Harassment Is on the Menu
52 – This Is Your Dinner on Weed
51 – You Thought You Knew Spam. You Knew Nothing.
50 – The Year's Best Movies Are Secretly About Food
49 – It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Get an Ethical Cup of Coffee
48 – This Science Will Make You Feel Better About What You Eat
47 – Not Just Granola: How Hippies Reinvented American Cuisine
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46 – Dinner and a Movie
45 – Restaurant Workers Say #MeToo
44 – When Dinner Gets Awkward
43 – Robin Sloan's Hilarious and Bizarre Food Novel
42 – After Napa’s Inferno, “We’re Still Standing”
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