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
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 pollu…
00:43:30 |
Wed 13 Dec 2023
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 Schne…
00:39:13 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
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 excess…
00:40:39 |
Thu 23 Nov 2023
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 c…
00:41:03 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
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 prem…
00:35:23 |
Thu 12 Oct 2023
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,…
00:32:58 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
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 dif…
00:42:37 |
Fri 22 Sep 2023
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?
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00:46:58 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
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 …
00:45:10 |
Wed 14 Jun 2023
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 o…
00:43:56 |
Thu 01 Jun 2023
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 f…
00:46:22 |
Fri 19 May 2023
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.
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00:40:49 |
Thu 04 May 2023
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, a…
00:45:19 |
Thu 13 Apr 2023
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 no…
00:50:03 |
Thu 09 Mar 2023
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 Congr…
00:39:20 |
Thu 02 Mar 2023
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?
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00:37:04 |
Thu 09 Feb 2023
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?
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00:42:32 |
Thu 02 Feb 2023
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 ha…
00:41:43 |
Thu 26 Jan 2023
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. Shoul…
00:46:17 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
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 sh…
00:42:45 |
Fri 09 Dec 2022
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