Salon’s Politics Writer Amanda Marcotte on Vaccine Mandates, Abortion Rights and Food

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Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer for Salon and has recently released a book looking at how the Republican party has been hijacked by frauds called ‘Troll Nation’.  

Amanda has decades of experience as a journalist and is staying current with everything that is going on.   

She explains why Biden’s infrastructure plan is facing such massive delays, the issues with the new Texan abortion law, and the success of vaccine mandates that are sweeping the nation.  

We also talk about what’s caused the labor shortages we’re facing, 3D-printed meat, and the future of food...  

“If we don’t pass major climate change legislation now, we’re never going to.” - Amanda Marcotte  

Time Stamps:

00:00 - Introducing our guest Amanda Marcotte.
07:58 - What’s caused the labor shortage in the restaurant industry?
13:14 - The number of people getting ‘burnout’ since the pandemic.
16:39 - What’s been causing the delays to Biden’s infrastructure plan?
24:03 - The importance of passing new climate change legislation now.
26:16 - The problems with the new abortion bill in Texas and whether it will survive.
37:10 - What Amanda’s learned from a decade in reproductive rights journalism.
39:10 - The legitimacy of vaccine mandates and the issues around anti-vaxxers.
47:11 - The problems with Texas’s electrical grid.
50:42 - The future of 3D-printed meat and the benefits it brings.
57:50 - Our special food trivia quiz.  

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