This week on What Doesn’t Kill You , award winning journalist Michael Moss deconstructs his recent NY Times story on abused animals at the hands of USDA researchers. This program was sponsored by Route 11 potato chips . “There is a huge difference between research to promote the beef industry, and research to improve consumer safety.” [22:30] “It is becoming increasingly hard for me to go to a restaurant and blindly eat meat without knowing who raised it.” [29:00] –Michael Moss on What Doesn’t K...
Feb 16, 2015•44 min•Ep. 143
In this corner we have the Center for a Livable Future’s Bob Martin, and in the other, Doctor John Glisson, representing the National Chicken Council! The debate? A new study from the Harvard School of Public Health gives what the Chicken Council calls a fair and balanced look at antibiotics in poultry, while Bob Martin, speaking for consumers, suggests it’s missing a few key details. A robust back and forth between the two sides characterizes this vigorous debate about the present course, and f...
Feb 02, 2015•48 min•Ep. 142
Chipotle recently took Carnitas off the menu in over 600 restaurants. Why? Is this a watershed moment for the pork industry? Find out on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You ! Katy Keiffer is joined by Chris Arnold, Communications Director at Chipotle and Jeff Tripician, Chief Marketing Officer & Executive Vice President at Niman Ranch. This program was brought to you by Rt 11 Potato Chips . “It’s been a big story and what’s been most eye opening on our end is the degree at which cus...
Jan 19, 2015•42 min•Ep. 141
On a thought provoking episode of What Doesn’t Kill You , Katy Keiffer is joined by Danielle Nierenberg, President of Food Tank (www.FoodTank.com) and an expert on sustainable agriculture and food issues. Danielle has authored or contributed to several major reports and books, including Happier Meals: Rethinking the Global Meat Industry (2005), State of the World 2011: Innovations that Nourish the Planet (Editor and Project Director, 2011), Eating Planet 2012 (2012), Food and Agriculture: The Fu...
Jan 12, 2015•48 min•Ep. 140
Learn about the future of composting on the 2015 season debut of What Doesn’t Kill You ! Katy Keiffer is joined by the team behind FOR Solutions, the “sustainable answer to the food scraps management issue.” Their patented solution creates nutrient-dense compost in just 5 days. The mission of FOR Solutions is to change the way people perceive food scraps from thinking of them as waste to thinking of them as a renewable, recoverable natural resource that has the power to revitalize Earth’s soil. ...
Jan 05, 2015•46 min•Ep. 139
Things are changing quickly in the chicken industry. The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition of the largest school districts in the United States that includes New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami-Dade, Dallas and Orlando, recently announced an antibiotic-free standard for companies to follow when supplying chicken products to its schools. Katy Keiffer digests this news with a great panel of guests on both sides of the industry on this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You . She’s jo...
Dec 23, 2014•46 min•Ep. 138
Tune in to this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You for an in-depth conversation on labor issues in the restaurant industry. How do tipped wages affect workers? Why is there a labor shortage in the industry? Find out as Katy Keiffer chats with Michael Leviton, the former Chairman of the board for Chefs Collaborative; and Chef/Owner, Lumiere and Chef/Partner, Area Four Boston, Massachusetts. He is a seven-time James Beard Foundation Award nominee and recipient of national awards from Food &am...
Dec 15, 2014•43 min•Ep. 137
Meet Sarah Teale, documentary filmmaker and founding member of Adirondack Grazers Cooperative, a group of beef producers from small to mid-scale, family farms in New York and Vermont that naturally raise and finish beef. The Co Op’s mission is to maximize member revenue by developing sales in wholesale and specialty markets not easily available to individual farmers. Tune in as Katy Keiffer chats with Sarah on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You . They discuss the co-op model, it’s succ...
Dec 08, 2014•44 min•Ep. 136
Katy Keiffer is rounding up the headlines and providing sharp commentary with guest Marion Nestle on a topical episode of What Doesn’t Kill You. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her books include the seminal Food Politics, Why Calories Count, Pet Food Politics, Safe Food and many more. She blogs at foodpolitics.com. Katy and Mar...
Dec 01, 2014•41 min•Ep. 135
This week on What Doesn’t Kill You , Katy Keiffer is once again joined by journalist Tom Philpott for an insightful conversation on immigration, food chains and more! For five years, Tom Philpott served as a columnist, food editor, and senior food writer for the online environmental site Grist. He’s a cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. Before moving to the farm in 2004, Philpott worked as a financial journalist in Mexico City and...
Nov 24, 2014•31 min•Ep. 134
Get ready for a soup-to-nuts conversation on the meat business on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You , with Katy Keiffer. She’s joined by George Faison, partner and COO at DeBragga and Spitler, a top quality meat distributor based in NYC. George was a founder of D’Artagnan where he worked as a partner for 20 years before moving to DeBragga and Spitler. He has been honored for achievement by his peers with both the Food Arts magazine Silver Spoon Award, and the Who’s Who of Food & B...
Nov 17, 2014•46 min•Ep. 133
This week on What Doesn’t Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is getting insight on the food industry from Mel Coleman, Jr. of Niman Ranch. Niman Ranch, based in the San Francisco Bay area, raises livestock traditionally, humanely and sustainably to produce the finest tasting meat in the world. Today, the Niman Ranch network has grown to include over 700 independent American farmers and ranchers. Kicking off the show talking to Mel about his father’s decision to go “natural” with the business and how t...
Nov 10, 2014•47 min•Ep. 132
Tired of the way big media covers environmental and agricultural issues? There’s a pure voice amidst the noise in FERN, The Food & Environment Reporting Network, Inc. Tune in as Katy Keiffer is joined by Sam Fromartz , author of In Search of the Perfet Loaf and Editor in Chief of FERN for a conversation on media, journalism and integrity. They also discuss the upcoming event, FERN Talks & Eats, which will cook up their written reports as dynamic, interactive storytelling. FERN is an inde...
Nov 03, 2014•41 min•Ep. 131
This week on What Doesn’t Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is speaking with Ted Genoways who is the editor-at-large at OnEarth, the magazine of the Natural Resources Defense Fund. He has also contributed to a number of other magazines such as The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New Republic, and Outside. His new book, “The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food” was published this month by Harper Collins and joins Katy in a discussion on labor concerning large c...
Oct 27, 2014•48 min•Ep. 130
This week on What Doesn’t Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is talking beef and welcomes guest Nicolette Hahn Niman to the program. Nicolette is a rancher, attorney, and writer. Much of her time is spent speaking and writing about the problems of industrialized livestock production, including the book Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms and four essays she has written on the subject for the New York Times. She has written for Huffington Post, CHOW, and Earth Island J...
Oct 20, 2014•45 min•Ep. 129
Antibiotic use in livestock is a topic that has been discussed many times on Heritage Radio Network, but this week on What Doesn’t Kill You , journalist, author and blogger Maryn McKenna explains what’s going on in a way that should make it clear for everybody. Maryn McKenna is an independent journalist specializing in public health, global health and food policy. She is a contributing writer for Wired and also for National Geographic’s food-writing platform The Plate, and writes for Scientific ...
Oct 13, 2014•46 min•Ep. 128
Katy Keiffer and Dr. Gail Hansen dissect the new protocols on antibiotic use announced recently by Perdue on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You . Gail is the Senior officer for Pew’s campaign on human health and industrial farming, a project aimed at phasing out overuse of antibiotics in food production. She has served on or chaired numerous state and federal infectious disease committees, as a scientific advisor for several national and international conferences, and is an adjunct fac...
Sep 29, 2014•46 min•Ep. 127
Quick service restaurants are one of the most interesting case studies in sustainability and sourcing – and Chipotle is arguably the best in the business. Tune in to a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You as Katy Keiffer chats with Chipotle Communications Director Chris Arnold. Chris oversees a variety of external communications, including media relations, government relations and public affairs, and philanthropic programs for the national burrito restaurant. He is an architect of the comp...
Sep 22, 2014•42 min•Ep. 126
Get ready to meet one of the hardest working people in institutional dining on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You as Katy Keiffer is joined by Ken Toong, Executive Director of University of Massachusetts Amherst Auxiliary Enterprises (AE) for the past 15 years. AE is the umbrella for UMass Dining. It is the nation’s largest campus dining operation with over 17,000 students on various meal plans and 83 million in annual revenue. UMass Dining serves over 45,000 meals daily, including 15 ...
Sep 15, 2014•43 min•Ep. 125
Preview the upcoming Chefs Collaborative’s Sustainable Food Summit on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You . Chefs Collaborative’s Sustainable Food Summit brings hundreds of chefs and food professionals together from across the country to share ideas and get inspired. It is a powerful opportunity to connect in-person with community members that share a commitment to help fix America’s broken food system. Host Katy Keiffer is joined by Michael Leviton is Chairman of the board for Chefs Co...
Sep 08, 2014•42 min•Ep. 124
Katy Keiffer is back from Australia and in the studio for another episode of What Doesn’t Kill You . She’s joined by writer Tom Philpott, the Food and Ag Correspondent for Mother Jones and the cofounder of Maverick Farms, a center for sustainable food education in Valle Crucis, North Carolina. He was formerly a columnist and editor for the online environmental site Grist and his work on food politics has appeared in Newsweek, Gastronomica, and the Guardian. Katy and Tom discuss ag-news items lik...
Aug 25, 2014•34 min•Ep. 123
We’re losing our sturgeon supply and black market caviar is becoming a real thing. Tune in to a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You as Katy Keiffer is chatting caviar with Michelle Nijhuis. Michelle writes about science and the environment for National Geographic and other publications. She is also a contributing writer for Smithsonian and a longtime contributing editor of High Country News, a magazine known for its in-depth coverage of environmental issues in the American West. Her most ...
Aug 04, 2014•40 min•Ep. 122
When it comes to the United States seafood industry, there is perhaps no better thinker and writer than Paul Greenberg. He’s this week’s guest on What Doesn’t Kill You , as host Katy Keiffer picks his brain on all things seafood related. From the salt marshes in Louisiana to the triangular trade of codfish, Paul touches on all corners of the domestic seafood industry and discusses the seriousness of the problems we face as a nation. Why is most of our seafood imported when we have such a bountif...
Jul 28, 2014•47 min•Ep. 121
River restoration affects more than just the natural environment. On today’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You , learn about one of the most essential restoration projects in the country right now, The San Joaquin River Restoration Program, as host Katy Keiffer chats with Monty Schmitt, Senior Scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council and the San Joaquin River Restoration Project Manager, Water Program. The SJRRP is a direct result of a Settlement reached in September 2006 on an 18-yea...
Jul 21, 2014•47 min•Ep. 120
If you eat burgers, chances are you’ve enjoyed one from Burger Maker. Their client list includes Five Guys, Cheesecake Factor, Fuddruckers and many many more. Born out of the Meatpacking District in NYC, Burger Maker’s family ownership is in its 4th generation of Meat experience. Beginning with slaughtering and fabrication cattle in the early 30’s in the 125th Street Market, they have evolved today to a purely specialized hamburger company. On a “ground”-breaking episode of What Doesn’t Kill You...
Jul 14, 2014•46 min•Ep. 119
It’s a very fishy episode of What Doesn’t Kill You as Katy Keiffer’s talking fish with Rick Shepro, author of Degrees of Freshness: The Contemporary International Market for Hyperfresh Seafood . Get some serious insights into the sustainable seafood industry as Rick explores the world of fish in all it’s different forms – wild, farmed, domestic and imported. Learn about Ike Jime, cold chain technology and find out why freshness may be a misleading term when talking about fish. This program was b...
Jul 08, 2014•33 min•Ep. 118
Get ready to go beyond the label as Katy Keiffer explores the world of olive oil on a new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You . How has California emerged as an olive region? How can you spot fraudulent olive oil? Guest Dan Flynn, Executive Director of UC Davis Olive Center, helps listeners answer these questions. Dan served as a consultant to the California State Legislature from 1985 to 2004 in a variety of policy areas and is the former owner and manager of an organic farm in the Sierra foothill...
Jun 30, 2014•38 min•Ep. 117
This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer chats with Patrick Martins about his book, The Carnivore’s Manifesto: Eating Well, Eating Responsibly, and Eating Meat. The book features fifty ways to be an enlightened carnivore, while taking better care of our planet and ourselves. We have evolved as meat eaters, proclaims Patrick Martins, and it’s futile to deny it. But, given the destructive forces of the fast-food industry and factory farming, we need to make smart, informed choices about th...
Jun 23, 2014•41 min•Ep. 116
Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Health at CUNY’s School of Public Health at Hunter College. He is also co-director of the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College. He has written or edited five books and more than 75 scientific articles on urban health policy, HIV prevention, community mobilization for health and the role of food policy in health. Recently, Nicholas wrote Lethal but Legal , a book outlining the ‘corporate consumption complex’. Tune into this w...
Jun 16, 2014•42 min•Ep. 115
The stat sheet on hemp sounds almost too good to be true: its fibers are among the planet’s strongest, its seed oil the most nutritious, and its potential as an energy source vast and untapped. Its one downside? For nearly a century, it’s been illegal to grow industrial cannabis in the United States-even though Betsy Ross wove the nation’s first flag out of hemp fabric, Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence on it, and colonists could pay their taxes with it. But as the prohib...
Jun 09, 2014•41 min•Ep. 114
