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
Episode 214: American Fisheries, Challenges and Opportunities
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Tim Fitzgerald, director of the Impact Division of Environmental Defense Fund’s Fishery Solutions Center – leading its global prog…
00:43:08 |
Mon 13 Feb 2017
Episode 213: Algae Is the New Protein!
CEO Andrew Dahl of Zivo BioScience joins Katy to discuss the applications and virtues of microalgae as a feedstuff for livestock and humans. Algae has the potential to take a leading role in animal n…
00:48:43 |
Mon 06 Feb 2017
Episode 212: The Food Movement Divided
In a recent article for Forbes magazine, journalist Nancy Huehengarth parses the divides within the progressive food movement between those that want immediate and complete change and those who work …
00:56:52 |
Mon 30 Jan 2017
Episode 211: Sari Kamin of HRN's The Morning After
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined in studio Sari Kamin. Also a host at Heritage Radio Network, today Sari is sitting on the guest's chair as she chats with Katy about …
00:40:58 |
Mon 23 Jan 2017
Episode 210: Molly Anderson of Middlebury College
This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Molly Anderson. Anderson is part of the Food Studies program at Middlebury College in Vermont, where she teaches about hunger and fo…
00:51:15 |
Mon 16 Jan 2017
Episode 209: The Chain with Ted Genoways
On the season premiere of What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Ted Genoways, award-winning writer and editor, and author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, a fina…
00:56:34 |
Mon 09 Jan 2017
Episode 208: Kathleen Merrigan and Sustainable Food Systems
What is a sustainable food system? Former undersecretary of the USDA, Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director of Sustainability at George Washington University talks about what's possible, what's happe…
00:57:09 |
Mon 12 Dec 2016
Episode 207: Why Haven't Antitrust Laws Been Evoked in the Meat Industry?
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Christopher Leonard, a former national business reporter for the Associated Press and author of The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover…
00:58:06 |
Mon 05 Dec 2016
Episode 206: Biting the Hands that Feed Us with Baylen Linnekin
This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer brings us an intriguing phone conversation with Baylen J. Linnekin, food lawyer and an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School, w…
00:53:59 |
Mon 28 Nov 2016
Episode 205: Jonathan Gelbard and The Grasslands Alliance
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Jonathan Gelbard, lead scientist at Grasslands Alliance and conservation scientist and sustainable agriculture specialist at Conserv…
00:56:07 |
Mon 21 Nov 2016
Episode 204: Chef Evan Mallett
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, Chef Evan Mallett brings an activist sensibility to cooking with his emphasis on biodiversity and promotion of local products. His new book Black Trumpet: A Chef…
00:53:42 |
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Episode 203: The "Nasty Women" of Heritage Radio Network
On this Election Eve edition of What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined in the studio by Heritage Radio Network's current and soon-to-be executive director, Erin Fairbanks and Caity Mosema…
00:56:03 |
Mon 07 Nov 2016
Episode 202: James Beard Foundation Award Winner Anna Lappe
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined on the line by Anna Lappé, an author and educator known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. A…
00:52:54 |
Mon 31 Oct 2016
Episode 201: Talking Food System Innovations with Professor Emeritus John Ikerd
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by John Ikerd, a visionary scholar and author who writes and speaks on issues related to sustainability with an emphasis on economics a…
00:50:30 |
Mon 24 Oct 2016
Episode 200: Unravelling the TPP
Journalist David Dayen offers insights into the trade agreements being negotiated by the Obama Administration right now. The negotiations are conducted in secret, and are essentially deals worked out…
00:45:17 |
Mon 17 Oct 2016
Episode 199: Talking Sustainability With Congresswoman Chellie Pingree
Today on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer tells us about Joys & Trump-centric Sorrows before sharing her interview with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, a Democrat representing Maine's 1st Cong…
00:19:24 |
Mon 03 Oct 2016
Episode 198: Sugar Industry Threw Fat Under the Bus
Newly revealed documents show how the sugar industry skewed public perception toward fat and away from sugar as the source of obesity and health problems. Marion Nestle, currently writing a new book …
00:47:27 |
Mon 26 Sep 2016
Episode 197: Corn: A New Crop Of Risks for Food Companies
This week on What Doesn't Kill You, Arlin Wasserman shows how reliance on corn relates to risk management and financial results in the food industry which has a direct impact on consumers in many way…
00:52:04 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
Episode 196: Plate of the Union, Food Policy Change and the 2016 election
Join Dr. Ricardo Salvador, Food Policy Director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, as he parses out what food policy change means, where to start, and how politicians and consumers have responded…
00:49:49 |
Mon 12 Sep 2016
Episode 195: One Family Farm, Two Documentary Filmmakers
Today on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer speaks with Annie Speicher and Matt Wechsler, the two filmmakers behind Hourglass Films and a new documentary. Sustainable tells the story of a family far…
00:47:43 |
Mon 20 Jun 2016
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