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. 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.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 41 minutes
- Episodes
- 413
- Years Active
- 2011 - 2024
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.
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00:45:27 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
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. Th…
00:46:30 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
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 …
00:43:09 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
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, …
00:44:10 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
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 populati…
00:45:12 |
Fri 13 Sep 2024
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 C…
00:42:35 |
Fri 26 Jul 2024
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 t…
00:45:29 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
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…
00:42:22 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
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 pr…
00:38:01 |
Thu 27 Jun 2024
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 bla…
00:39:39 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
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…
00:40:12 |
Fri 31 May 2024
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…
00:45:47 |
Thu 23 May 2024
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 industrialize…
00:38:53 |
Wed 15 May 2024
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 …
00:43:41 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
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 dwi…
00:42:53 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
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, …
00:47:16 |
Thu 14 Mar 2024
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 …
00:44:46 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
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 thi…
00:43:50 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
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 h…
00:38:22 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
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 processin…
00:44:54 |
Sat 27 Jan 2024
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