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What Doesn't Kill You

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Food production is a curious business; it's nuanced, layered, complex, and political. In What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer endeavors to identify and explain some of the key issues in our food system through interviews with journalists, authors, scientists, activists, and industry experts. Water rights, meat and agricultural production, food waste, labor issues, and new technologies are just some of the topics explored so we can better understand how to feed the future.
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How Can Policy Affect Food Waste?

Emily Broad Leib , Faculty Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, offers policy solutions to managing food waste on consumer and corporate platforms. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 11, 202244 minEp. 354

Humanewashing: Think Those Labels Mean Something?

Executive Director of Farm Forward , an advocacy group, takes on the greenwashing of Animal welfare certifications, drawing the distinctions between industry and independent labeling, as well as animal welfare elements frequently overlooked by consumers. Executive Director Andrew DeCoriolis explains why most labels are meaningless, or worse. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powe...

Dec 13, 202136 minEp. 353

Organizing Poultry Workers in Arkansas

Magaly Licolli is a labor organizer in Northwest Arkansas, home to the chicken industry. She has been helping poultry workers push back against industry, demanding health care, paid leave, and better wages and working conditions, particularly during the pandemic. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californ...

Dec 07, 202142 minEp. 352

Economic Study Shows the Value of Regional Agriculture on State Finances

Economic researcher Dave Swenson and Niman Ranch Farmer Ron Mardesen discuss the financial impact on rural communities of hog farming in more traditional systems vs the industrialized model so prevalent today. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-...

Nov 29, 202144 minEp. 351

Scare Tactics by Factory Farms in Minnesota

Sonja Trom Eayrs , a family law attorney in Minneapolis, has documented the way factory farming giants are deploying deceptive practices, intimidation, and harassment to expand their facilities throughout the farm belt. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...

Nov 16, 202147 minEp. 350

Farmer Focus, a New Kind of Poultry Company

Corwin Heatwole, Founder and CEO of Farmer Focus , joins to talk about creating a whole new model for industrial chicken production: "farmer-focused", organic, and certified humane. How did he achieve that?? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-se...

Oct 25, 202145 minEp. 349

Lab Grown Meat: A Deep Dive Into Viability

Deputy Editor of The Counter , Joe Fassler, joins the show to deconstruct his article on lab-grown meat; the economics, the infrastructure, and the viability as a replacement for actual meat. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Oct 20, 202144 minEp. 348

Poultry Farmer Blows the Whistle on Perdue

Rudy Howell, a long-time contract grower for Perdue spoke up. He got fired. He has something to say about the industry, along with Amanda Hitt from the Food Integrity Campaign/ Government Accountability Project . Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

Oct 11, 202145 minEp. 347

The Attack of the Superweeds

Journalist H. Claire Brown comes in to discuss the implications of her NY Times article on how weeds are outpacing science by half a decade. What will that mean for farmers? What will it cost consumers? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my...

Sep 20, 202142 minEp. 346

Defending Beef 2.0

Author Nicolette Hahn Niman comes back to talk about her revised and expanded, Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat . Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Sep 13, 202145 minEp. 345

Air from there pollutes right here!

Professor Meredith Hastings and PHD candidate Emily Joyce of Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, discuss the implications of several recent studies on how rising levels of nitrogen and ammonium are affecting national waterways and coastal areas to their detriment. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Polic...

Aug 02, 202147 minEp. 344

Biden takes aim at Consolidation and Monopolies

Mike Callicrate, activist and cattle rancher comes back to talk about the Executive Order signed by Biden that addresses long standing grievances in the animal agriculture sector, among others. Included in the EO are measures to address pricing transparency, labeling, enforcement and re-write of the Packers and Stockyards Act. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simpleca...

Jul 20, 202147 minEp. 343

JBS Pays 11Million in ransom to cybercriminals

Colonel John Hoffman of the Food Protection and Defense Institute has been advising companies and government on how to harden their cyber functions. Here he deconstructs how JBS came to be hacked and what government and corporations need to do to ensure national food security. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...

Jun 22, 202146 minEp. 342

The Climate Bill even Big Ag Loves

Mother Jones ag correspondent Tom Philpott deconstructs the boondoggle that is the new "climate bill" beloved by all who pollute. Dubbed "GROWING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS", this bill makes people like Joni Ernst and the good people of the National Pork Producers Council rub their legs together like crickets. How can this be good? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast ....

Jun 15, 202144 minEp. 341

Water, the Commodity Trade?

Dr. Steve Suppan joins to discuss the very first futures contract for water, and the implications for the rest of us. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

May 25, 202150 minEp. 340

Eating with the Ecosystem

Eating with the Ecosystem director Kate Masury joins to talk about encouraging chefs and consumers to appreciate underutilized species of fish, improving the fishing industry for fishermen, and adjusting for the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Californi...

May 17, 202142 minEp. 339

The State of American Drinking Water

Legal expert Valerie Baron from Natural Resources Defense Council joins to discuss the existential threat to safe, available drinking water across the United States. Topics include The Clean Water Act and regulatory standards, PFAS and other contaminants in the water supply, the effects of climate change, and new leadership at the Environmental Protection Agency. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Do...

May 13, 202146 minEp. 338

Iowa has had enough of CAFOs

Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Art Cullen comes on to talk about the pressure of the hog industry on Iowa's environment, joined by Wisconsin Farmer Lisa Doerr. Support the Western Iowa Journalism Foundation here . Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...

Apr 05, 202145 minEp. 337

More scandals in meatpacking

Leah Douglas reports on a Smithfield meatpacking plant in California whose negligence has exposed hundreds of workers to Covid, and thousands of people in the surrounding community. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Mar 22, 202137 minEp. 336

Just Eat! with Barry Estabrook

Award winning journalist Barry Estabrook shares his insights on the multibillion dollar industry that is the diet industry. Fascinating and funny. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Mar 15, 202148 minEp. 335

Draining the "Big Food" Swamp

Draining the "Big Food" Swamp is an in depth report on lobbying money in politics backed by major food and beverage corporations. Buying politicians and skewing legislation is the game. Executive Director of Feed the Truth, Lucy Martinez Sullivan joins to highlight key points. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privac...

Mar 09, 202150 minEp. 334

Migrant workers and the H2A visa Program

H2A visa workers, those who pick and harvest our food, are some of the most abused and least protected of all labor categories. David Bacon, author of a new report on the subject joins to describe their plight and what measures the Biden Administration needs to adopt to halt this abuse. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19....

Feb 22, 202141 minEp. 333

The Poultry Industy Pays fines, Pleads guilty to price fixing

Anti-trust lawyer and University of Wisconsin Professor Emeritus Peter Carstensen joins to discuss the recent fines and settlements extracted from the poultry industry in the wake of investigations into price fixing and collusion. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art1...

Feb 08, 202154 minEp. 332

New Dietary Guidelines; what didn't but should have changed!

Journalist Greta Moran digs into the new version of the National Dietary Guidelines so the rest of us don't have to. Big surprise! Industry dictates what they are going to be. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Feb 05, 202141 minEp. 331

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal.

Mark Bittman, former NYTimes columnist and noted author joins to discuss his newest book. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support Processing by becoming a member ! Processing is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 27, 202150 minEp. 330

Rebuilding dairy in Pennsylvania

Aaron DeLong of Pasa Sustainable Agriculture in PA will describe his organizations efforts to recharge and rebuild Pennsylvania's dairy industry Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Jan 18, 202143 minEp. 329

The latest on COVID-19 in food processing with Leah Douglas

In this update, Leah talks about her most recent piece for FERN detailing how numbers are underreported in meatpacking plants in North Carolina, and no agency is regulating them. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....

Dec 17, 202038 minEp. 328

USDA nominations; new legislation to support Black farmers

Tom Philpott from Mother Jones comes by to chat about who is in the running for the Secretary of Agriculture, and to discuss newly introduced legislation to recompense and support Black farming families. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-m...

Dec 10, 202059 minEp. 327

Meat Industry gets its way on line speeds

Amanda Hitt from the Government Accountability Projects Food Integrity campaign comes back to talk about the increases in line speed jammed through by the industry and the Trump administration. What does this mean for consumers, food safety, and workers? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privac...

Nov 30, 202049 minEp. 326

How Biden is likely to react to Trump administration roll backs on protections for food and farming

The Counter 's senior reporter Claire Brown joins Katy Keiffer to describe her team's predictions on rules rolled back by Trump. Their conversation covers topics as varied as SNAP, WOTUS (the EPA's efforts to define "waters of the United States"), and pesticide use. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member ! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplecast . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Calif...

Nov 23, 202034 minEp. 325
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