What Doesn't Kill You
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What Doesn't Kill You
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. Wat...
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Rethink Food, Saving Food From Landfill
Founder and CEO Matt Jozwiak of Rethink Food, joins to discuss how he works with a variety of partners to re-purpose discarded food into wholesome, cu...
Herbicide Drift and Its Impacts
Prairie Rivers Network has published the results of a 6 year study on the impacts of herbicide drift in Illinois, and its not a good picture. Herbicid...
Courts Are Beginning to Address Water Quality Issues in Farm Belt
Journalist Keith Schneider reports on some groundbreaking cases in Michigan and in Federal Court addressing the pollution caused by CAFOs and the spre...
What Technologies Are Available for Cleaning up PFAS?
Dr. Thomas Boving, Chair of The Department of Geosciences joins to discuss what and how we can address the contaminations of our waterways, from lakes...
Why Isn’t the USDA Taking Bird Flu More Seriously?
Avian Influenza, AKA bird flu is just a few mutations away from becomimg a much bigger deal for humans. With the pandemic just in the rear view mirror...
Protecting Our Streams, Protect Our Water Supply
John Rumpler, Clean Water Director of Environment America; Research and Policy Center, explains how protecting our "ephemera" streams has a major impa...
Wisconsons Water Is Laden With PFAS, Republicans Want to Give the Polluters Immunity
Erik Kanter, President of Clean Wisconsin joins to explain how republicans are withholding funds for clean up until the legislature passes a bill immu...
Who Owns Our Water? Who Is Getting to Sell It? Gambling in Water Futures Is Real.
New legislation introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ro Khanna would put the kybosh on trading in water futures. Will it succeed?...
Everything You Need to Know about Horseshoe Crabs!
Will Harlan from the Center for Biological Diversity joins to talk about the keystone species horseshoe crabs, a population that is crashing, and for...
Antibiotic Resistance Continues Apace, H1N1 Jumps Species! WTH???
Science writer Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug and Big Chicken, joins to discuss the feeble attempts to rein in antibiotic use in animal agriculture...
Cage Free Laying Goes Mainstream! Only 10% in 2014, Now Edging Over 40%
The Humane League, an advocacy organization seminal to both encouraging the egg industry to improve its conditions for laying hens, but also to hold r...
Just How Much Money Are We Actually Wasting in Our Efforts to Remediate Our Polluted Waterways Like the Gulf of Mexico or the Chesapeake?
According to journalist Keith Schneider whose prize winning series Toxic Terrain has explored many of the ills associated with our style of agricultur...
Just How Much DOES Industry Influence Science at the University Level? Turns Out, Quite a Bit.
Professors Viveca Morris and Jennifer Jacquet dug into how the livestock industry has co-opted certain university experts to minimize the impact of fi...
Lets Review the Farm Bill With Tom Philpott
Veteran agricultural journalist Tom Philpott joins to talk about what is and isn't in the newest iteration of the Farm Bill. Despite all the extra fun...
Who Is Minding Our Groundwater?
Professor Upmanu Lall, director of the Water Institute at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University gives us the det...
Barons! You Thought the Age of the Robber Baron Was Over? Guess Again!
Author Austin Frerick joins the show to talk about his new book: Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food System. An awesome journey...
Pushing Back on the Poultry Industry Is Not for the Faint of Heart.
For at least 20 years, the burgeoning poultry industry has been spreading the waste litter from their barns across one particular watershed in Oklahom...
Farm Belt States Are Getting Serious About Agro-Chem and Cancer
Accross the farm belt, cancer cases are spiking, and states are getting serious about tracking and providing guidelines for exposure to agro-chem. Jou...
How the American Diet is Feeding The Groundwater Crisis, redux!
Straight outta the NY Times, a groundbreaking article by journalists Christopher Flavelle and Somini Sengupta shows the highway between mcNuggets and...
The EPA Finally Re-Considers Its Regulations on Effluent From Meat Processing.
John Rumpler, Clean Water DIrector and lead attorney for Environment America, joins to talk about the long overdue revision of regulations governing w...
Is One Man Going to Finally Going to Change the Way Iowa Deals With Its Waterways?
Chris Jones, author of The Swine Republic, featured here in June, is back to talk about the remarkable series of conversations he is now having around...
Bio-Digesters: The Race Is On!
Big Ag and Big Oil are getting in bed together to promote the buildout of bio-digesters to manage animal waste. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing m...
The Ethanol Scam
Professor Sylvia Secchi from University of Iowa joins to talk about how ethanol is a giant giveaway to the ag industry, purporting to be a partial sol...
Cancer Road in Minnesota
Journalist Keith Schneider examines a spate of cancer diagnoses in farm country in Minnesota. On one short stretch of a road in Berne Minnesota, share...
Watering Down Organic Standards
Organic food purchasers buy organic and pay the extra for a reason. New regulations being proposed by some members of congress would make it much easi...
Farmland for Farmers, Not Farmland for Hedge Funds
The National Family Farm Coalition is advocating for the Farmland For Farmers Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker in July of this year. Agricultural...
Electric Dog Collars on Cattle? This Rancher Has Ditched the Fence.
Western states are home to herds of grazing beasts, and to keep them in the right place, thousands of miles of fencing is required. Conservation North...
Farm Bill 2023: Get the Skinny
Award winning journalist and author, and favorite guest, Tom Philpott returns to talk all things Farm Bill. What will change, what is new, and what is...
PFAS! What Are They? Why Are They in Everything Including Us?
Every day a new article describes the prevalence of PFAS in our water, land, food, and bodies. David Cwiertny, professor of Civil and Environmental En...
The Swine Republic: Read It and Weep, but You Will Be Laughing Your Head off Too...
Iowa State University Water Quality expert Chris Jones, @riverraccoon, just published a damning indictment of the governing officials of Iowa and Big...
California Central Valley Braces for Catastrophic Floods... We Should Be Bracing as Well
Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty, was prescient in his 2020 book in a lengthy description of the 1862 floods that inundated Central Valley in a...
Ducks and Rice; A Beautiful Synergy
Vermont farmer Erik Andrus is practicing an ancient form of agro-ecology from Japan. Learn how the old informs the new as Erik describes his approach...
The Cocklebur, a New Newsletter From Longtime Ag Reporter Bryce Oates
Bryce Oates, a regular contributor to Civil Eats, Daily Yonder and other pubs has launched a newsletter that comes from a rural perspective. In this e...
Avian Flu, Zoonotic Disease, and How Close Are We to a New Pandemic?
Science writer and author Maryn McKenna is back to talk about her newest piece for Wired where she considers the implications of Avian flu moving to n...
Farms Not Feed
Sherri Dugger, Executive Director of the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, joins What Doesn't Kill You to discuss a recent meeting in Washingt...
Cage Free Eggs Should Be the Norm. How Is That Working Out?
Vicky Bond, President of the Humane League, joins to discuss their campaign to transition the egg industry to cage free. Who is walking the walk and w...
Alt Meat! Is It the Answer? Maybe Not?
Chloe Sorvino, journalist and author of Raw Deal, returns to talk about alt meat and where it's headed. Is it really better?
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Injured and Invisible: Civil Eats Exposes Safety Failures in Animal Agriculture
Journalist Christina Cooke joins to discuss her lead off piece in a five part series on worker safety in animal agriculture called Injured and Invisib...
Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat
Forbes's food writer Chloe Sorvino brings the business in her new book about the corruption of the meat industry. Exploitation, price fixing, pollutio...
BlueTriton, One of the Largest Water Companies in the World, Comes to Talk Sustainability and Addressing Infrastructure
BlueTriton has gobbled up a lot of water companies, including Nestle's water division. They say they are addressing the kinds of problems we saw in Fl...