Feed

Is local or global more sustainable? What role should meat play in our diets? Who holds power in the food system? In a polarized world, this podcast explores the visions, values and evidence behind these debates. Feed, a project of TABLE, is in conversation with diverse experts who are trying to transform the food system. 

Originally established as a collaboration between the University of Oxford, the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and Wageningen University & Research (WUR), the TABLE network has since grown to include la Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) and la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. This podcast is operated by SLU. 

For more info, visit https://tabledebates.org/podcast/ 

Is this the future of food? (with Michael Grunwald)
Apr 10, 2025 – 47:17
Ken Giller on the Perils of Populism and Precarious Promise of Regenerative Agriculture
Mar 20, 2025 – 25:12
TikTok masculinity and the Tradwife (with Feminist Food Journal)
Feb 27, 2025 – 39:20
From horses to AI: Jennifer Clapp on how fossil fuels shaped agriculture
Feb 13, 2025 – 33:32
Is a Fossil Fuel Free Food System Possible? (Live recording at ORFC)
Jan 30, 2025 – 50:49
7. Transitioning to fossil free food
Dec 5, 2024 – 47:38
6. Fossil fuels in our kitchens
Nov 28, 2024 – 47:39
5. Ultra-processed foods, plastics, transport
Nov 21, 2024 – 54:46
Raj Patel on fossil fuels, food, and Columbus’s wicked legacy
Nov 14, 2024 – 32:57
4. Farm machinery, precision agriculture, big data
Nov 7, 2024 – 40:01
3. Do we need fossil agrochemicals to feed the world?
Oct 31, 2024 – 48:28
2. The rise of fossil fuels in our food
Oct 24, 2024 – 43:45
1. There's fossil fuels in our food?!
Oct 24, 2024 – 37:14
Introducing Fuel to Fork
Oct 16, 2024 – 00:34
What biodiversity do you care about?
Oct 10, 2024 – 34:46
Animal welfare and ethics (w/ Tamsin Blaxter)
Sep 5, 2024 – 49:24
Valuing nature in our economies (w/ Adan Martinez Cruz)
Aug 22, 2024 – 28:46
There is no master metric for biodiversity (with Ville Lähde)
Aug 15, 2024 – 40:23
Nature knows best: Naturalness in the Ultra-Processed Foods Debate
Aug 8, 2024 – 53:44
Presenting "Less And Better?: Ep 1: Its Complicated"
Jul 11, 2024 – 34:11
Women Scientists from Global South on Food Security (Part 3)
Jun 27, 2024 – 25:53
Economics of Food System Transformation (Part 2)
Jun 13, 2024 – 40:20
Is Global Food Security a Solvable Puzzle? (Part 1)
May 30, 2024 – 32:40
Is cultivated "meat" unnatural? Is meat today natural?
May 9, 2024 – 36:03
Does CRISPR make our food unnatural?
May 2, 2024 – 29:38
What's a natural diet? (with Richard Tellström)
Apr 25, 2024 – 18:43
What's a natural diet? (with Amy Styring)
Apr 18, 2024 – 25:37
Can we eat enough white-tailed deer to restore forest ecosystems?
Apr 11, 2024 – 31:08
Eating invasive crayfish - a solution to our ecological mess?
Apr 4, 2024 – 21:15
Grasshoppers - agricultural pest or sustainable food?
Mar 28, 2024 – 25:06
Should food systems be more natural?
Mar 21, 2024 – 44:05
Sofia Wilhelmsson on pig transport and human-animal relations (rebroadcast)
Feb 29, 2024 – 31:52
What is rewilding? (rebroadcast)
Feb 15, 2024 – 30:26
Neena Prasad on the power of ultra-processed foods
Jan 18, 2024 – 41:32
Jessica Duncan on COP28 and who shapes food policy
Dec 7, 2023 – 54:43
Presenting A CRISPR Bite: Wine
Nov 16, 2023 – 23:47
Will you join the insect revolution?
Oct 26, 2023 – 27:33
Narrowing the yield gap in Sub-Saharan Africa
Oct 5, 2023 – 39:29
Presenting M4F: Ep8. Looking back, looking forward
Sep 21, 2023 – 36:44
Presenting M4F: Ep7. Health, biodiversity, animal ethics
Sep 7, 2023 – 53:57
Presenting M4F: Ep6. Plant based
Aug 25, 2023 – 01:18:31
Presenting M4F: Ep5. Less meat
Aug 13, 2023 – 01:09:45
Presenting M4F: Ep4. Alternative "meat"
Jul 27, 2023 – 56:35
Presenting M4F: Ep3. Efficient meat
Jul 13, 2023 – 53:29
Presenting M4F: Ep2. A complicated relationship with meat
Jun 29, 2023 – 41:55
Presenting M4F: Ep1. Meat the four futures
May 11, 2023 – 33:20
What did we learn about power? (with Tara Garnett and Sigrid Wertheim-Heck)
Apr 6, 2023 – 49:59
Food in prisons (with Lucy Vincent and Linda Kjær Minke)
Mar 9, 2023 – 01:05:23
Ken Giller on the Food Security Conundrum (rebroadcast)
Feb 23, 2023 – 35:04
Philip McMichael on the "Corporate Food Regime"
Feb 2, 2023 – 51:28

Recent Reviews

Andrew7892

Muy bien

Tengo hambre
eppca

The best podcast

This podcast is so informative and interesting! I have listened to several episodes twice and am recommending to colleagues and friends.
LRKsp

So informative

Enjoyed getting educated. Great topics and dialogue. Looking forward to more podcasts. Keep up the good work!
Burtonmere

UPDATE: I realllly ( no longer want to because I do) enjoy this podcast

But the sound mixing is really difficult to listen to. I cannot hear what some of the people are saying. If I turn up the volume, the music and other people are too loud. Will keep trying and hopefully the sound mixing will improve. Sound quality is perfect and the content is amazing! Great questions and very interesting guests with great perspectives. I cannot wait to hear more!!
Al Town

Accessible & fascinating

500 million smallholder farmers around the world, 3 billion people involved when you consider their households—wow. How isn’t this stat more well known? The first episode really puts into perspective how crucial these conversations on food security and sustainability are. Looking forward to the next chat!
Jesse PB

This was good for my brain

When I was in college, I enjoyed reading about these topics and having class discussions about them, but now I don’t have the time or energy or community to easily do so. I put this on instead of the radio at the recommendation of a friend and I’m gonna recommend it to other people.