This week on What Doesn't Kill You , Chef Evan Mallett brings an activist sensibility to cooking with his emphasis on biodiversity and promotion of local products. His new book Black Trumpet: A Chef’s Journey Through Eight New England Seasons was published last month by Chelsea Green Publishing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
On this Election Eve edition of What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is joined in the studio by Heritage Radio Network's current and soon-to-be executive director, Erin Fairbanks and Caity Moseman Wadler! Tune in to hear them discuss ballot initiatives, right-to-farm laws, U.S. food policies, and the varying complexities of the progressive food movement as a whole. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ...
This week on What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is joined on the line by Anna Lappé, an author and educator known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. A recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award, Anna is the co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to more than a dozen others. Anna’s most recent book, Diet for a Hot Planet: The Climate Crisis at the End of Your Fork and What You Can Do About It (Bloomsbury), was named by B...
This week on What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is joined by John Ikerd, a visionary scholar and author who writes and speaks on issues related to sustainability with an emphasis on economics and agriculture. Dr. Ikerd's work on sustainable farming and agricultural economics has galvanized and informed the progressive food movement. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Journalist David Dayen offers insights into the trade agreements being negotiated by the Obama Administration right now. The negotiations are conducted in secret, and are essentially deals worked out between big industry players. The impact of these agreements on our food system could be profound. Tune in to learn how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Today on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer tells us about Joys & Trump-centric Sorrows before sharing her interview with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, a Democrat representing Maine's 1st Congressional District. Pingree weighs in on food policy from organic farming to France's recent zero-food-waste law. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Newly revealed documents show how the sugar industry skewed public perception toward fat and away from sugar as the source of obesity and health problems. Marion Nestle, currently writing a new book on the subject will show how they developed this campaign and ran with it over the course of decades. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
This week on What Doesn't Kill You , Arlin Wasserman shows how reliance on corn relates to risk management and financial results in the food industry which has a direct impact on consumers in many ways. Arlin Wasserman is a partner at Changing Tastes, founding our company in 2003. He is also a fellow at the Aspen Institute and a past recipient of a Food and Society Policy Fellowship, awarded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Arlin holds masters degrees in Natural Resource Sciences and Public Heal...
Join Dr. Ricardo Salvador, Food Policy Director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, as he parses out what food policy change means, where to start, and how politicians and consumers have responded to the Plate of the Union initiative. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .
Today on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer speaks with Annie Speicher and Matt Wechsler, the two filmmakers behind Hourglass Films and a new documentary. Sustainable tells the story of a family farmer in Illinois who fought to keep a sustainable farming model in the midst of transformation in America’s heartland. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
This week on What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer welcomes Mike Schade of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families . Schade spearheads the Mind the Store campaign which aims to work with the nation's leading retailers on creating comprehensive chemicals policy. For the previous eight years, Mike was the Markets Campaign Coordinator with the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ), a national environmental health organization where he led national campaigns to phase out PVC plastic, pht...
Learn about the incredible operation at Shelburne Farms this week on What Doesn't Kill You. Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit organization educating for a sustainable future. That means learning that links knowledge, inquiry, and action to help students build a healthy future for their communities and the planet. Their home campus is a 1,400-acre working farm, forest, and National Historic Landmark. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...
Katy Keiffer is once again joined by friend of the show, Tom Philpott on a new episode of What Doesn't Kill You. They chat about the Presidential race, the National Food Policy for the 21st Century, and the Plate of the Union initiative that has fallen flat despite the talent behind it. Tom Philpott is the food and agriculture reporter for Mother Jones. Prior to that he was at Grist for five years. His work on food politics has appeared in Newsweek, Gastronomica, and the Guardian. He is also a h...
The Center for a Livable Future has a Food System Policy Program. What is it? Find out this week on What Doesn't Kill You . Katy Keiffer is joined by Bob Martin, currently the director of Food System Policy at the Center for a Livable Future. Bob served as Executive Director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which was housed at the Center for a Livable Future. Prior to that appointment, Bob worked for nearly 30 years in public policy at the state and federal level. See ...
This week's guest on What Doesn't Kill You hiked 1,700 miles along the proposed Keystone XL route. Yes, actually! Ken Ilgunas started in Denver, hitchhiked across the Canadian border, took a flight over the Tar Sands of Alberta, and commenced his walk in Hardisty, AB, the northern terminus of the soon-to-be pipeline. The journey was documented in the recently published "Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland". He and Katy cha...
Katy Keiffer is flying solo today on What Doesn't Kill You and she's got plenty to say. First, she recaps some news - from legal pot to cheese in cat food. Later, she talks about the industrial food industry at large and identifies some of the worst and best aspects of the current system we have. Tune in for some sharp insights and timely topics! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Tune into a brand new episode of What Doesn't Kill You as Katy Keiffer is joined by Sandy McLeod, director of Seeds of Time. Seeds of Time is a documentary about preserving our agricultural heritage, featuring Dr. Cary Fowler, a pioneer in identifying the global threat to food security posed by losing seed diversity. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership bring to livestock agriculture? Listen to a couple of fire-breathing ranchers and activists duke it out on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You. Host Katy Keiffer is joined by Bill Bullard of R-Calf and Steve Dittmar of AgFreedom.org. Things get very heated – this is a must listen for anybody following the cattle industry. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
On this week's episode of What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is joined in the studio by Andrew F. Smith, a writer and lecturer on food and culinary history. Andrew serves as the general editor for the Edible Series, published by Reaktion Press, and teaches Food Studies at the New School University in New York. He is also the author of the new book Fast Food: The Good, the Bad and the Hungry . Tune in as they discuss why the fast food industry has been so successful, and the myriad consequ...
On this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You , Katy welcomes Daisy Freund and Robert Hensley of the ASPCA to discuss North Carolina’s “Anti-Sunshine” Law. A coalition of animal protection, consumer rights, food safety, and whistleblower protection organizations recently filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law, which is designed to deter whistleblowers and undercover investigators from publicizing information about corporate misconduct. Under the law, organizations...
This week on “What Doesn’t Kill You”, Katy Keiffer opens with her aches and pains regarding new and creative ways teenagers are getting a buzz on. Later, she chats with Leah Garces, e **xecutive director of Compassion in World Farming USA, about Target’s and other large chain’s dedication to end cage and crate farming. ** “We can’t address climate change unless we address our animal product consumption levels” [45:00]–Leah Garces See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Pri...
Saru Jayaraman is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. After 9/11, together with displaced World Trade Center workers, she co-founded ROC, which now has more than 18,000 worker members, 150 employer partners, and several thousand consumer members in over 30 cities nationwide. The story of Saru and her co-founder’s work founding ROC has been chronicled in the...
This week on _ **What Doesn’t Kill You, ** _Katy Keiffer is joined by Claire Benjamin, Executive Director of Food Policy Action . Food Policy Action was established in 2012 through a collaboration of national food policy leaders in order to hold legislators accountable on votes that have an effect on food and farming. Our goal is to change the national dialogue on food policy by educating the public on how elected officials are voting on these issues. Through education and the National Food Poli...
On today’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You , journalist Richard Manning shows the link between big agriculture and big money in politics. Manning is an environmental author and journalist, whose work has explored the enormous impact that agriculture has had on human civilization and evolution. One of the consequences of this reliance on a steady food supply is the issue of agricultural pollution – and whose responsibility it is to deal with it. But, as Manning discusses, political realities oft...
Learn more about a precedent setting lawsuit against upriver counties for municipal water pollution in Des Moines, Iowa on today’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You . Katy Keiffer is joined by Bill Stowe, CEO of Des Moines Water Works. In 1919, Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) was formed as an independently owned and operated public utility, deriving its legal status from the Constitution of the State of Iowa and the statutes enacted by the Iowa General Assembly. Its legal authority is set out in Ar...
Katy Keiffer is charged up and is continuing her politically themed shows with a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You that features special guest ** ** Congressman Tim Ryan. Tim Ryan has been a strong advocate for progressive agricultural policy. He’s also the author of The Real Food Revolution: Healthy Eating, Green Groceries, and the Return of the American Family Farm. Learn more about his votes for food justice, the Farm Bill and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and...
This week on _ What Doesn’t Kill You _, host Katy Keiffer is on the line with Twilight Greenaway , Managing Editor of Civil Eats . Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system, publishing stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities. The duo comment on the biggest food and food policy related stories published throughout the past year as well as highlighting Twilight’s ...
Is the fossil fuel industry too big to be held accountable by the US Government? Tune in for a spirited conversation on our government, the environment, lobbying mechanisms and how they work as Katy Keiffer is joined by Senator from Rhode Island to the US Congress, Sheldon Whitehouse. Sheldon is the junior United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since 2007. He is a member of the Democratic Party and previously served as a United States Attorney from 1993 to 1998 and as the Attorney Gene...
On the first episode of What Doesn’t Kill You in 2016, Katy recaps last years news stories and prepares for the year ahead. Hear why the Future of Food Manifesto might have been the most important story of the year and get a refresher on topics like antibiotic resistance, anti-trust issues and the e-coli Chipotle outbreak! Credit: Rocky Mountain Laboratories,NIAID,NIH “When we sell agricultural products in this country, we’re not just selling the product. It’s also the soil, the water, the vario...
Blow the whistle with Amanda Hitt and Katy Keiffer on a brand new episode of ** What Doesn’t Kill You. ** Amanda Hitt is the Director of The Government Accountability Project’s Food Integrity Campaign (FIC). Amanda oversees FIC operations and is responsible for ensuring that FIC fulfills its mission of enhancing food integrity by facilitating truth telling. To do this, Amanda works closely with partner organizations, clients, legislators, and the media to alter the balance of power between the f...
