What You're Eating

Who is harmed by pesticides? A child eating a big, red, conventionally grown Driscoll’s strawberry. Or a bowl of Cheerios. Or does the chain of harm go back further? To a farmworker, spraying pesticides up and down a row of crops. Or a farming family, living on the land where the crops are grown. Or a community, breathing the air and drinking the water downstream from the farm. Are these foods bad for us to eat? Are they bad for us, collectively, to grow? And if so, who should pay the price? This episode features Carey Gillam, investigative journalist and author of the books Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science and The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man's Search for Justice; Max Sano, the senior policy and coalition associate at Beyond Pesticides; Aaron Lehman, president of the Iowa Farmers Union; and Urvashi Rangan, chief science advisor at the Grace Communications Foundation and FoodPrint. What You’re Eating is produced by Jerusha Klemperer, Nathan Dalton and FoodPrint.org, which is a project of the GRACE Communications Foundation. You can find us at www.FoodPrint.org where we have this podcast as well as articles, reports, a Food Label Guide and more. Follow @foodprintorg on Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky

Over a hundred years ago, we started drinking soda. Today, soda is part of a larger category called sugar sweetened beverages, that includes energy drinks, Dunkin’ frozen matcha lattes, giant Boba teas and Starbucks strawberry acai refreshers. How did these companies tap into our innate cravings to sell us more drinkable calories than we are supposed to eat in a week? In this episode we explore why we are so susceptible to sugar and how soda companies influenced the way we drink today, marketing their drinks aggressively (especially to children), externalizing costs, and making the consumer and society at large responsible: for our excess calorie consumption and for the waste created by single use drink containers. In this episode we speak with Lina Ghanem, director and co-founder of Saba Grocers Initiative; Marion Nestle, Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, Emerita, at New York University and author of Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning); Michael Moss, author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us; Anupama Joshi, Vice President of Programs at the Center for Science in the Public Interest; Bart Elmore, author of Citizen Coke: The Making of Coca-Cola Capitalism; and Mike Belliveau, director and founder of Bend the Curve. What You’re Eating is produced by Jerusha Klemperer, Nathan Dalton and FoodPrint.org, which is a project of the GRACE Communications Foundation. You can find us at www.FoodPrint.org where we have this podcast as well as articles, reports, a Food Label Guide and more. Follow @foodprintorg on Instagram, Facebook, Threads and Bluesky