Food Sleuth Radio

Guest Eric Herm, 4th generation TX cotton farmer and author of Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, and Surviving Ourselves: The Evolution of Community, Education, and Agriculture in the 21st Century…

Guest Deborah Madison, Americas leading authority on vegetarian cooking, talks about her life, kitchen, garden, and latest cookbooks: The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, and 2014 James Beard Awa…

Guest Amanda Heyman, attorney, provides legal counsel for independent farmers & food businesses; she discusses legal aspects of GMO, organic and natural labeling, and threats from pesticide drift
Lawy…

Guest Janisse Ray, author of the The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, describes hopeful, collective actions to protect our sacred seeds, farmers rights and the future of our food
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Guest Mary Stein, M.S., Deputy Director, National Farm to School Network explains how increasing local food in schools from regional farms to school gardens -- improves child nutrition, school perfor…

Guest Robert Lustig, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Food, Obesity, and Disease, and featured in…

Guest Robert Kremer, Ph.D., microbiologist formerly with the U.S.D.As Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor of Soil Microbiology at the University of Missouri, describes how glyphosate …

Guest Karen Collins, M.S., RDN, Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Advisor to the American Institute for Cancer Research describes dietary strategies for cancer prevention
Karen Collins Nutrition

Guest Michael Graziano, producer and director of the film, Resistance which describes the history of antibiotics and how we are moving towards a post-antibiotic era, largely due to misuse in livestoc…

Guest Raymon Seidler, Ph.D., former Senior Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR, and author of Pesticide Use on Genetically Engineered Crops, explains the failed promises a…

Guest Margaret Carrel, Ph.D., medical geographer and Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, describes her research which investigated residential proximity to confined swine feeding operations and …

Guest Jeff Ritterman, M.D., member, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and former Chief of Cardiology at Kaiser Richmond Medical Center, CA, explores the link between fatal kidney disease among fa…

Guest Mary Jo Forbord, RD, organic farmer and registered dietitian describes the intersection of health and agriculture, and the challenges she faces on her farm, and to public health, from increased…

Guest Lynn Dornblaser, Director of Innovation and Insight, at Mintel, an international global market research and analysis firm, describes the difference between fads and trends, and her experience t…

Guest Jaydee Hansen: Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Food Safety discusses how nanotechnology is being applied to foods and food-related products, and lack of regulation
Center for Food Safet…

Guest Harold Goldstein: Executive Director, California Center for Public Health Advocacy, describes his work to reduce childhood obesity, specifically targeted on sugar-sweetened beverages
CCPHA

Guest Norma Flores Lopez: Director, Children in the Fields Campaign at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, describes child labor in agriculture, including her own personal experience …

Guest Robert Shimek: Interim Executive Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and Founder of the Toxic Tater Coalition, discusses the public health consequences associated with pesticides…

Guest Seth Holmes, Ph.D., M.D., anthropologist and author: Fresh Fruit: Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, describes the living, working, and health conditions of migrant farm w…

Guest Jose Oliva, Associate Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance describes the wages (the restaurant industry lobbies to keep the federal tipped minimum wage at $2.13) and working conditions o…