Change Food Eats - Sanjay Rawal - Director, GATHER - Ep 5
Channel: Change Food
Date: 25/08/2020

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Change Food Eats is a weekly lunchtime talk show brought to you by founder Diane Hatz.  Find out what's happening in food and the food movement with Diane and her special guests.  https://www.changefood.org/change-food-eats/

Our special guest this week is Sanjay Rawal, director of the new film GATHER - a look into Native American life and how some are beginning to reclaim their food culture.  Watch on iTunes today!  For more info - https://gather.film/ 

Diane Hatz talks to Sanjay Rawal on how society can have better access to healthier foods from the policies we have in place to teaching people how to eat healthier. Sanjay talks about how non native people can't say restoring the Earth because we are the ones that destroyed it, which is why non native people say we want to regenerate it. Native people restore the Earth. 

"Considering the fact that the majority of philanthropy comes from family fortunes build on land related extractions, it's shocking that less than one half of one percentage of American philanthropy goes to native lead organizations working in Indian country" 

"Just by giving people access to healthy food doesn't change their ways" 

"Food sovereignty means developing or realizing or discovering your own spiritual connection to the foods that make you who you are"

"Native American cultures evolved and developed independently because food was so abundant in geographic areas"
"Food is always around us but because we can rely on a corner store or a supermarket we have lost touch"

1:01 How have you been? 

1:59 Are you eating anything today? 

3:08 How can we create a food system where everyone can eat healthy food? 

7:20 Do you think the food sovereignty route is the healthier route than microbiome? 

9:24 For a film director you know a heck of a lot about food. So why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself like how did you get into film? Tell us about you. 

11:56 Tell us about your film Food Chains 

13:23 So your new film Gather, do you want to tell us about that film? 

19:58 How were you welcomed and able to get into such a deep dive into the realities of Native American life? 

21:54 So one of the people in Gather said that Food is connected literally to the life of Native Americans. Can you talk a little about that? 

26:37 Can you tell us a little bit about the Chef from Gather and how he started his cafe? Can anyone go to the cafe or is it just for people on the reservation? 

32:06 One gentleman in Gather mentioned that the industrial revolution is over and we're in a restorative generation. Can you expand on that and give us your opinion of where we are today with revolutions? 

36:03 Do you think that the raising awareness with BLM  movements, COVID that there is finally more attention to the wrongs that they suffered? 

40:39 When you say people would have had the tools to fight COVID if natives were able to sell their foods to school in their area. What do you mean by that? 

44:14 Do you know if there are people working on trying to get elk approved by the USDA to be serving us? 

46:58 Are there things people can do to support people in the film or support Native Americans?

48:24 Is there anything else you would like to share with us?  

Sanjay Rawal's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrsanjayr/
Watch the film Gather that Sanjay directored; available on itunes: https://gather.film 
Other films Sanjay worked on: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2141739/

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