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What Doesn't Kill You
by Heritage Radio Network
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.
Episodes
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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, culturally appropriate meals for the underserved. Photo Courtesy of Clay Williams. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast...
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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. Herbicide drift isn't confined to agricultural fields. They float right into our backyards, schoolyards, parks, and natural spaces. Herbicide drift is…
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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 spreading of manure across famrland that winds up in our water system. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network.…
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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 and streams to groundwater. With agrochemicals, PFAS and other toxic additives, American waterways are challenged like never before. Dr. Boving…
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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, teh news that H5N1 has moved from bird populations to dairy herds to humans should be a red alert. Curiously, the USDA seems relatively...
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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 impact on our water supply. With last years Supreme Court Ruling excepting "ephemeral" streams from the Clean Water Act, and laying them open to...
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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 immunizing polluters from prosecution for polluting the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites. Heritage Radio Network is a listener...
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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? Mary Grant, Director of the Public Water for All initiative at Food and Water Watch joins to discuss this legislation, and other issues affecting...
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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 which the Center is seeking endangered species protection. Learn why we need to protect this harmless and ancient creature from human exploitation....
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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. As the World Health Organization and others blare out the warnings about a post antibiotic medical landscape, American livestock producers can't...
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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 restaurants accountable when they don't keep their promises to use only cage free eggs. Kelly Myers, Director of Corporate Engagement joins to…
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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 agriculture, "the voluntary conservation practices promoted by federal and state governments, and Big Ag, are the costliest and least effective pollution...
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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 findings on climate change related to industrialized animal agriculture. Their findings have been published in a new paper detailing just how...
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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 funds from the Investment Recovery Act, and all the information we now have about climate disruption, and other impacts on agriculture, we seem to be...
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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 details on how we map, model, and distribute our dwindling groundwater supplies. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast...
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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 through the biggest monopolies in the food biz, from grains, to hogs, to coffee, to grocery chains... Meet the unknown players making bank on the...
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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 Oklahoma. Journalist Ben Felder dug into the origins of the lawsuit brought by a long gone state attorney general seeking to bring some accountability to...
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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. Journalist Keith Schneider has been digging into this for months and reports. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast…
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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 our diminishing supply of fresh clean water for human consumption. Flavelle joins the show to describe what he and his colleague uncovered as part…
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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 wastewater from slaughterhouses and meat processing plants. Decades overdue, public hearings on the subject are being held January 24th and 31st…
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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 Iowa and his region about big ag and water pollution. We will also talk about heavily funded mitigation tools that are not mitigating, but are...
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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 masquerading as a good thing? Reporter Keith Schneider gives some context on this long overdue attention to pollution from the animal agriculture...
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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 solution to fossil fuel impacts. Instead, the excessive cultivation of corn is having disastrous impacts on soil and water... and guess what? It's...
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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, shared by four farming families, 12 people developed cancer, and seven of them died. What linked these people in disease is the contamination of their...
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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 easier for corporate food businesses to use that premium label to sell product that doesn't actually meet the real benchmarks of organic. Tom Chapman,...
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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 land needs to stay accessible to actual farmers, rather than offer an opportunity to corporate entities to capitalize on high land prices, at the...
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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 Northwest Associate Director Jay Kehne advocates a different path: shock collars for cattle. The cattle stay put, but other wildlife (think deer, elk…
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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, sigh, same old, same old? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a...
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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 Engineering, and in Chemistry at the University of Iowa, takes us through the impacts, the options for remediation, and what to expect from…
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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 Ag in overseeing the disastrous consequences of our profit over people driven agricultural model. Learn how the Department of Natural Resources and…
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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 once in a century flood. Now Central Valley is facing an even more catastropic scenario as climate disruption adds fuel to an already volatile…
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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 and how it works. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member!…
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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 episode we talk about the new WOTUS controversy, and all the bluster and drama that plays out in a rule that essentially regulates nothing, but some...
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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 new territory and infecting new mammals, though not yet infecting people to any great degree. What does this say about our methods for raising…
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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 Washington with advocacy groups urging the USDA and Congress to fund actual farms, rather than subsidizing commodities for animal feed and ethanol. Learn…
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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 who talks the talk but doesn't walk? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by...
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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? 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…
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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 Invisible. Today we discuss the plight of workers who have been long left out of OSHA safety regs extended to every other industry. Heritage Radio Network...
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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, pollution and bribery all get a turn in the barrel. Should be a fun discussion between a couple of real meat heads! Photo Courtesy of Nick Rice. Heritage...
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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 Flint. But what exactly does that mean, and what should consumers expect from a giant water company that makes its profit from selling bottled water?...
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The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Civil Eats reporter and former host of the Farm Report, Lisa Held, was at the conference and can give listeners an informed recap of this long overdue conference. From root causes of hunger, to expanding the role of government in nutrition science, and much more, this conference was based on 5...
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Proposition 12 out of California is having its day in Supreme Court
On October 11, the Supreme Court heard a case that will have major implications for animal welfare standards nationwide. The case was brought forward by National Pork Producers Council against the state of California, citing unfair trade practices. Prop 12 guaranteed a better standard of living…
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Pulitzer prize winning author and publisher Art Cullen from the Storm Lake Times weighs in on Iowa politics and why Biden gets no love.
Despite banner investments in big ag, not to mention the end of the trade wars with China and a host of other farm friendly policies, Biden gets no love. Journalist Art Cullen dissects why farmers love to bite the hand that feeds them, gives us the skinny on governor and senate races, and gets…
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Food Safety Inspection Services, a branch of USDA, offers up recent reports on poultry processing. Its not pretty.
President of the Humane League, a non profit animal rights organization, discusses the game-changing release of internal reports that were previously available only via FOIA requests. What is to be learned, and what to do next is the subject of this episode. Heritage Radio Network is a listener...
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Money for Agriculture in the Inflation Recovery Act and More
Agriculture is getting some serious attention from the Biden administration with significant investments via the Inflation Recovery Act, and even more from Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities. Tom Philpott from Mother Jones deconstructs. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported...
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'Slow Cooked' With Marion Nestle
Author, activist, and professor Marion Nestle joins to talk about her "Unexpected Life in Food Politics". A groundbreaking author and the developer of the first formal food studies program at NYU, Marion Nestle has inspired and informed the public about the many hidden issues that plague our food...
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What if You Could Measure Your Water Use and Your Food Print? Would You Change the Way You Shop, Eat, Consume?
Robin Madel takes us through the uses of the Water Calculator, a new tool that measures not just your water use from the tap, but the water used in growing, processing, and distributing agricultural products, clothing, appliances.. pretty much every thing you use. Jerusha Klemperer explains the...
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Is Kelp Production the Next Big Thing?
If you follow the news, you have probably noticed a lot of copy devoted to the commercial cultivation of kelp. Kelp farmer Jonathan McGee explains why farming kelp is a winner for consumers, the ocean, and climate change. HRN is home to transformative exchanges about food. Our 35+…
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Meatpacking Gets Hauled up on the Carpet in Congressional Hearings. Hear What They Had to Say for Themselves, and How Ranchers and Producers Responded.
Forbes journalist Chloe Sorvino describes what happened at a recent congressional hearing where meatpacking CEOs are questioned about their anti competitive, monopolistic, rip-off practices of the last 30 plus years. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network.…
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Raised Without Antibiotics Doesn’t Always Mean Raised Without Antibiotics!
Surprise! Those certification labels promising no antibiotics in animals are sometimes a hollow promise. Andrew deCoriolis from Farm Forward unpacks the recent studies from both the Milken Institute School of Public Health and Farm Forward's own research that show that corners can and are being...
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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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