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Chews Wisely
by Chews Wisely
Welcome to Chews Wisely with Caroline Nelson, where we deconstruct food & sustainability topics with nuance and primary sources. Conversations will range from conscientious omnivory, supply chains, and regenerative agriculture, to the latest food studies, "Big Ag," and more. At Chews Wisely, we’ll go beneath the headlines and hot takes. We believe that real climate solutions are nuanced, that facts are friendly, and that there are many right ways to eat and be sustainable. Keep the conversation going at @chewswiselypodcast on Instagram!
Episodes
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[Patreon Preview] When Science Fails
A note from Caroline: Making this podcast is one of my favorite things. But right now, I have to put it on pause to attend to the other parts of my life that require my attention. After this, there will be one more episode. It's not just time commitments that are causing me to pause the podcast…
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The Truth About Wild Caught Salmon with Tara Hines
How do you know you’re eating sustainably caught fish? Should we be buying fresh or frozen seafood? Is trawling ethical? Farmed salmon is pumped full of what? Today we have Tara Hines, who owns and operates a wild caught Alaskan Salmon business called Sockeye Servings. She and her crew catch…
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How to Find Joy Anywhere with Sarah Reese
An interview with the happiest person I know - Sarah Reese. Sarah is my mom (!) and a radically joyful person, whether she’s in the ICU or on a golf course. Nourishment and health mean nothing if we don’t have joy, and today she is going to share her ‘laws of happiness’ to help us cultivate more…
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[Patreon Preview] Should We Be Worried About Microplastics?
Maybe you’ve heard the news. Microplastics are on top of Mount Everest, the bottom of the ocean, in our blood, breastmilk, vital organs, and testicles. They are pervasive and the scope of their effect on our health is only just beginning to be understood. Today’s episode lays out what…
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Inside the Conventional Chicken Industry with Esther Sprott
The commercial chicken industry is mysterious. It’s tightly controlled by the integrators - these are the companies that own and control the whole system - and it’s shrouded in NDA’s. We rarely get to hear from the actual farmers who raise the chicken. Until today! Esther Sprott, a regenerative…
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Is Organic Really Better? with Robert Paarlberg
This episode with Dr. Robert Paarlberg mythbusts from start to finish. Everything you think you know about the dirty dozen, food subsidies, the cost of whole food vs processed…just set it to the side because he is here with the data and the nuance that we need to dig deeper. You will especially...
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Decolonizing Food with Mariah Gladstone
Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee) is a botanist, a chef, and an advocate for healthy eating and indigenous foods. She joins us today for a conversation about the invisible foods all around us, what it means to re-indigenize our diets, and how food was used as a tool of colonization. We also...
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[Patreon Preview] Our Home Birth Story
Caroline tells the story of her home birth, and her journey through the medical system leading up to her crunchy-adjacent birthing experience. This is a Patreon exclusive episode. To hear the full episode, become a regenerator at the link below. Stay in touch with Chews Wisely: IG:...
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European Farmer Protests
Today we are diving into some current events, and talking about the farmer protests happening all across Europe. We dig into why and how these farmers are protesting, and what we can take away from these protests here in America. Stay in touch with Chews Wisely: IG: @chewswiselypodcast Patreon:...
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Everything You've Been Told About Nutrition Is Wrong with Lily Nichols
Lily Nichols, RDN, joins us today to turn everything we thought we knew about gestational diabetes (and nutrition in general) upside down. We also cover why we need to get over our fear of salt, fat, and meat when pursuing health. And then we dig into misconceptions around folic acid and B12, and...
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[Patreon Preview] Why Do Cattle Take Up So Much Land?
Today we debunk the claim that cattle “take up so much land.” Or rather, we add heaps of much-needed nuance to it. The Bloomberg article/map referenced in the episode is here. This is a Patreon exclusive episode. To hear the full episode, become a regenerator at the link below. Stay in touch with...
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[Patreon Preview] The Wanting Is The Hardest Part (Overconsumption, Enshittification, and How to Find Joy with Less)
If you’ve ever felt unsettled by buying trend cycles on the internet, or noticed how nothing seems to be made to last anymore, you are definitely not alone. In today’s episode, Caroline discusses her own history with, and current thoughts on, the accumulation of stuff, and how to push back…
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[Patreon Preview] The Simple Magic of Pantry Cooking
It might sound ridiculously simple, but today’s episode is about the slow shift I’ve made from recipe cooking to pantry cooking, and the joys it’s brought. We talk about how pantry cooking has built fluency in the kitchen, broadened my palette, and increased enjoyment for me in a place where...
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How To Become A Gratitarian with Lacey Jean, Part 2
Lacey Jean is a hide tanner, a butcher, a shepherdess, and a woman who has built a beautiful, rich life out of the ashes of very hard times. She’s on the podcast to talk about food and how she nourishes herself directly from her community, but as with all the best conversations we range far. We...
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How To Become A Gratitarian with Lacey Jean, Part 1
Lacey Jean is a hide tanner, a butcher, a shepherdess, and a woman who has built a beautiful, rich life out of the ashes of very hard times. She’s on the podcast to talk about food and how she nourishes herself directly from her community, but as with all the best conversations we range far. We...
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Grasslands, Grazing, and GMOs with Professor Steve Smith
What’s the deal with grassfed vs grainfed? Are grasslands the most endangered ecosystem? Today we talk with Professor Steve Smith, an Associate Professor of Biology, Field Botany, and Sustainability at the University of Arizona, about what makes grasslands such special and fragile ecosystems, the...
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Are Cow Burps Causing Climate Change? with Dr. Frank Mitloehner
We’re joined by professor and air quality specialist Dr. Frank Mitloehner today who comes on to answer all our burning methane questions. He is director of UC Davis’ CLEAR Center, which helps the global community understand the environmental and human health impacts of livestock. What sets Dr....
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[Patreon Preview] Navigating A "Crunchy Adjacent" Pregnancy
Caroline shares a life update, how she’s thinking about food and nourishment at 21 weeks pregnant, and thoughts on navigating the medical system as someone who is “crunchy adjacent.” This episode is a Patreon preview. To listen fully, become a member below. Stay in touch with Chews Wisely: IG:...
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Intuitive Eating, Intuitive Living
A personal episode about Caroline’s exploration into intuitive eating over the last year. We start with a reflection on surviving the toxic 1990’s food culture, Caroline talks about how she stopped forcing herself to eat things she didn’t like, and how she slowly got into an unstructured version…
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The Mysterious Lives of Honeybees with Beth Couchoud
Is local honey really local? Store bought honey can be cut with what? And are queens really in charge of the hive? On today’s episode you’ll hear from Beth Couchoud of Honeysuckle Nectary, who brings her passion and knowledge for beekeeping to us, along with heaps of nuance. Today’s episode will...
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After the Commodity Crash: How One Walnut Farmer is Reinventing the Industry with Kaben Kramer
The year after the Kramer’s went all in on walnut farming, the commodity market collapsed. And then it collapsed further. Today Kaben Kramer shares how walnuts are grown, why he doesn’t like to term ‘regenerative’ anymore, how the watershed works on his farm, the reason no one can afford to start…
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The Nine Circles of Environmental Activist Hell
A jokey social media post gets deconstructed in today’s solo episode, a deep dive into the ideological pipeline so many of us who care about food and the environment tend to go down. If you’ve ever heard someone say “we just need to eat less meat,” or “Have you heard about Will Harris?” this...
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The Wonder of Wool, The Scourge of Synthetics with Erin Martin Dorf
Wool may be the most eco-friendly textile there is, and Erin Martin Dorf is here to tell us why. Erin is wool royalty, or as she calls herself, a wool industry nepo-baby. She lives and breathes all things wool and sheep, and we mythbust shearing, lanolin, the wool supply chain, and discuss how...
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[Patreon Preview] Can We Trust Dietitians? (On the Influencer Nutritionist Scandal)
On September 13th, the Washington Post published an article titled: “The food industry pays ‘influencer’ dietitians to shape your eating habits.” This comes on the heels of their 2022 article “Group shaping nutrition policy earned millions from junk food makers.” Can we trust registered…
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Six Guys In Trench Coats (The Industrialized Food Supply Chain) with Kendall Ballantine, Part 2
Tales from the trenches of a food supply double agent. Kendall Ballantine wasn’t always a farmer. 10 years ago she was the Director of Operations for a multinational food supply chain corporation. On today’s episode (part 2) she shares why our “too big to fail” food system is tremendously…
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Six Guys In Trench Coats (The Industrialized Food Supply Chain) with Kendall Ballantine, Part 1
Tales from the trenches of a food supply double agent. Kendall Ballantine wasn’t always a farmer. 10 years ago she was the Director of Operations for a multinational food supply chain corporation. On today’s episode (part 1) she shares how food actually travels from farm to table in our modern…
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How To Save A Family Farm with Avery Claire Wrigglesworth
Avery Claire Wrigglesworth is a former ballerina and an administrator in international finance who gave it all up to come home and try to save the family farm. And it hasn’t been all roses. Several years in, they realized a traditional cow-calf model couldn’t pencil out for them. Out of…
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The Farmers Are Not Alright
A poll of 300 farmers brings illuminating - and concerning - results. Stay in touch with Chews Wisely: Instagram Patreon Email: [email protected] Chews Wisely is brought to you by Little Creek Lamb & Beef. Get regeneratively raised, pasture raised meats shipped directly to you from our...
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Does Beef Waste Water? (Re-release)
*This is a re-release of Episode 2, Does Beef Waste Water?* We’ve all heard that beef is a water hog, often enough that it’s considered common knowledge. Caroline goes to the source - a UNESCO study - to see what we can unpack about that claim. Holes are poked, rants are ranted, and nuance is...
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Let's Talk About Pest(icides), Baby
Caroline tells you all kinds of things you don’t want to hear about pesticides, including herbicides like Glypohsate and Paraquat. How widely are synthetic chemicals used on crops? How much of them is on our food? Is there a difference between conventional and organic? And, ultimately, does the...
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Stirring The Pot #1 (Caroline Answers Listener Questions)
A rapid fire round of listener questions! Caroline explains the difference between farming and ranching, how she is able to get off the ranch every now and then, and how she deals with the uncertainty of not owning the land on which her livelihood depends. We wrap up with thoughts on the...
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Lab-Grown Meat: Climate Cure or Recipe for Disaster?
In June, the first lab grown chicken was approved for sale in the US. Today we unpack the company’s grandiose claims about cultured meat’s potential. What is it made of and how is it made? What are the environmental impacts? And nutritionally, how does it stack up to conventional meat? This…
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The Meat Packer Monopoly with Matthew Greco of My Health Forward
Bribery. Corruption. Trafficking. Today’s episode takes you inside the real villains of the beef industry, the “Big 4.” Four multinational conglomerates control most of the global beef industry and over 80% of American beef processing, and it affects everyone from ranchers to consumers at the...
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What Butchery Teaches Us About Life with Kate Kavanaugh, Part 2
How does a butcher feel when people tell her “I could never do what you do?” Today, we dive into big questions with Kate Kavanaugh. How did becoming a butcher inform her farming practices? And change her relationship with food? How do we bring more embodiment back into our food system and...
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What Butchery Teaches Us About Life with Kate Kavanaugh, Part 1
A vegetarian becomes a butcher trying to save the prairie one steak at a time. Kate Kavanaugh shares her story from harvesting her first chicken to opening up Western Daughters Butcher Shoppe. Follow Kate Instagram The Mind, Body, Soil Podcast Western Daughters Butcher Shop Stay in touch with…
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Debunking Dairy with Lily Andersen, Part 2
Do you love dairy, but feel kind of weird about it? Caroline was in the same boat until a local dairy farmer reached out and invited her to the farm. Today she sits down with Lily Andersen for an honest and wide ranging conversation. Caroline asks all her burning questions about dairy practices…
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Debunking Dairy with Lily Andersen, Part 1
Do you love dairy, but feel kind of weird about it? Caroline was in the same boat until a local dairy farmer reached out and invited her to the farm. Today she sits down with Lily Andersen for an honest and wide ranging conversation. Caroline asks all her burning questions about dairy practices…
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral
It’s not plants OR animals, it’s plants AND animals. Today’s episode covers the myriad of ways that plant and animal agriculture are intertwined. (Did you know the dairy industry and the almond industry are linked?) We focus particularly on crop byproducts, on the benefits of grazing, and the...
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The Moral Equivalent of War Crimes (Fossil Fuels, Big Oil, And The Climate Cover-up)
Caroline discusses the climate cover-up no one’s talking about. Did you know nearly 75% of global emissions trace back to the energy sector? While we fight about cow burps, Big Oil keeps getting away with climate crimes in plain sight. What did they know and when did they know it? How do cars...
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Burning Out While Living The Dream
“You pay a price to live your dreams.” Working in agriculture can certainly be a dream. It can also, occasionally, feel like a nightmare. Today’s episode meanders through burnout, romanticization, and the tangibles that are given up when one chooses to pursue ranching. IG: @chewswiselypodcast...
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Why Are Most Vegans Women?
We’re in muddy waters today, wading through the intersection of veganism, gender, disordered eating, and identity. We start by going down memory lane: Instagram in the 2010’s and the plant based influencers. Then, the rise of the carnivore diet, and the way gender seems to interact with…
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Does Meat Cause Cancer?
Red meat and cancer. You’ve seen the headlines! Now it’s time to learn what the studies really say. Spoiler alert: it’s not that simple. We tease apart the link between processed meat & colorectal cancer. We discuss: absolute risk vs relative risk. Observational studies vs interventional....
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Ranching Without A Ranch
Caroline & Justin Nelson are first generation ranchers who don’t own an acre. Yet they raise cattle and sheep and have a thriving pasture raised meat business. How do they ranch without a ranch? Today’s episode is an exploration of unconventional ways of entering the agriculture industry, and a...
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BONUS: Five Mindblowing Food Facts
Caroline lays out five of her most mindblowing, perspective shifting food and ag facts in this week's bonus episode. Because you're never too knowledgable to learn something new. Follow along on Instagram: @chewswiselypodcast You can reach us at [email protected] Chews Wisely is...
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BONUS: "This Farm is a Factory" with Bethany Cantwell
On the flip side of a newspaper article from 1958, Bethany Cantwell of Aurora Blue Farm saw something that caught her eye. It was an article titled ‘This Farm is a Factory.’ That article kicked off an in depth conversation between Bethany and Caroline, which we share with you as a bonus episode...
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The Case Against Factory Farming
Our modern food system is highly productive, highly efficient, and tremendously fragile. Today we explore the flip side of the Green Revolution and talk about environmental costs including synthetic fertilizer, antibiotics, chemical and "superweeds." A brief foray into manure management, and then…
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The Case For Factory Farming
Warning: this episode requires an open mind and an earnest desire to learn about our food system. Today, Caroline asks: what is factory farming, how did it come about, and is it really so bad? We’re taking a sincere look at the good things about our current food system, because we can’t change a...
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Can Regenerative Agriculture Save the World?
We take a closer look at the principles and nuances of the lens of regenerative agriculture, the similarities and differences with certified organic foods, and why the most sustainable options often aren't the most efficient. Caroline has some stories to tell. Follow along on Instagram:...
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Is Vegan Leather Better? Part 2
A deep dive into leather production & the global supply chain. We compare and contrast leather with pleather, also known as vegan leather, and uncover a multitude of environmental issues across the board, but particularly in pleather’s fossil fuel connections. Supply chain challenges. Chrome...
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Is Vegan Leather Better? Part 1
A deep dive into leather production & the global supply chain. We compare and contrast leather with pleather, also known as vegan leather, and uncover a multitude of environmental issues across the board, but particularly in pleather’s fossil fuel connections. Supply chain challenges. Chrome...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Chews Wisely with Caroline Nelson, where we deconstruct food & sustainability topics with nuance and primary sources. Conversations will range from conscientious omnivory, supply chains, and regenerative agriculture, to the latest food studies, "Big Ag," and more. At Chews Wisely, we’ll go beneath the headlines and hot takes. We believe that real climate solutions are nuanced, that facts are friendly, and that there are many right ways to eat and be sustainable. Keep the conversation going at @chewswiselypodcast on Instagram!
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