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
The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
Civil Eats reporter and former host of the Farm Report, Lisa Held, was at the conference and can give listeners an informed recap of this long overdue conference. From root causes of hunger, to expan…
00:43:46 |
Wed 26 Oct 2022
Proposition 12 out of California is having its day in Supreme Court
On October 11, the Supreme Court heard a case that will have major implications for animal welfare standards nationwide. The case was brought forward by National Pork Producers Council against the st…
00:37:53 |
Wed 19 Oct 2022
Pulitzer prize winning author and publisher Art Cullen from the Storm Lake Times weighs in on Iowa politics and why Biden gets no love.
Despite banner investments in big ag, not to mention the end of the trade wars with China and a host of other farm friendly policies, Biden gets no love. Journalist Art Cullen dissects why farmers lo…
00:35:45 |
Thu 13 Oct 2022
Food Safety Inspection Services, a branch of USDA, offers up recent reports on poultry processing. Its not pretty.
President of the Humane League, a non profit animal rights organization, discusses the game-changing release of internal reports that were previously available only via FOIA requests. What is to be l…
00:43:33 |
Wed 28 Sep 2022
Money for Agriculture in the Inflation Recovery Act and More
Agriculture is getting some serious attention from the Biden administration with significant investments via the Inflation Recovery Act, and even more from Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities.…
00:57:16 |
Tue 20 Sep 2022
'Slow Cooked' With Marion Nestle
Author, activist, and professor Marion Nestle joins to talk about her "Unexpected Life in Food Politics". A groundbreaking author and the developer of the first formal food studies program at NYU, Ma…
00:46:22 |
Wed 14 Sep 2022
What if You Could Measure Your Water Use and Your Food Print? Would You Change the Way You Shop, Eat, Consume?
Robin Madel takes us through the uses of the Water Calculator, a new tool that measures not just your water use from the tap, but the water used in growing, processing, and distributing agricultural …
00:44:13 |
Wed 03 Aug 2022
Is Kelp Production the Next Big Thing?
If you follow the news, you have probably noticed a lot of copy devoted to the commercial cultivation of kelp. Kelp farmer Jonathan McGee explains why farming kelp is a winner for consumers, the ocea…
00:42:58 |
Mon 18 Jul 2022
Meatpacking Gets Hauled up on the Carpet in Congressional Hearings. Hear What They Had to Say for Themselves, and How Ranchers and Producers Responded.
Forbes journalist Chloe Sorvino describes what happened at a recent congressional hearing where meatpacking CEOs are questioned about their anti competitive, monopolistic, rip-off practices of the la…
00:43:52 |
Mon 13 Jun 2022
Raised Without Antibiotics Doesn’t Always Mean Raised Without Antibiotics!
Surprise! Those certification labels promising no antibiotics in animals are sometimes a hollow promise. Andrew deCoriolis from Farm Forward unpacks the recent studies from both the Milken Institute …
00:40:47 |
Fri 10 Jun 2022
Explosive Report on How the FDA Is Failing Our Food System
Investigative reporter Helena Bottemiller-Evich digs deep into the many ways the FDA, supposedly monitoring our food supply, abjectly fails to adequately monitor and regulate basic products like baby…
00:51:59 |
Mon 16 May 2022
Why the War in Ukraine Will Affect Food Supplies Globally
If you are wondering why a conflict so far away is going to hit so close to home, listen up here to Tom Philpott of Mother Jones. He explains how we are all connected when it comes to food security. …
00:43:35 |
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador Gives Tom Vilsack a Report Card on His First Year.
Senior scientist and Director of the Food and Environment program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador evaluates some 10 key initiatives brought by Tom Vilsack in his second term as…
00:52:07 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
Mega Ag is sucking Africa Dry
My guest today is Anuradha Mittal, the founder and executive director of The Oakland Institute. They recently released a report that exposes how corruption, governments, and major industrial agricult…
00:38:16 |
Mon 28 Mar 2022
Iowa State Representative Pushes Back on the Hog Industry
Democratic State Representative Art Staed has put forth a bill that demands a moratorium on building new CAFOs for the next five years. He won't name names, but he tells a story of how an industry ha…
00:31:28 |
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Right to Repair, a Critical Element of Industry Consolidation
Most farm equipment is manufactured by a very few industry giants like John Deere. Shutting farmers out of the ability to fix their equipment themselves or locally costs millions of dollars in lost o…
00:42:29 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
Understanding What Went Wrong With the Cattle Markets
Mike Callicrate, activist and rancher, comes aboard to talk about breaking up consolidation in the meat industry and re-regionalizing the system. The man has a plan.
Heritage Radio Network is a list…
00:53:13 |
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Urban Agriculture; Exponential Growth Over a Decade
Anastasia Cole Plakias, co-founder of the Brooklyn Grange, talks about the role of urban agriculture, the business model, community engagement, and more.
Heritage Radio Network is a listener support…
00:47:27 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Son of Vilsack Helps Perpetuate the Ethanol Industry
Tom Philpott of Mother Jones returns to discuss the role of Ag Sec Tom Vilsack in fostering and perpetuating the ethanol industry, with his son now stepping into a role with a major "carbon sequestra…
00:44:15 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
Antibiotics in the Food Chain
In 2012 I did the first of many interviews about antibiotics in the animal agriculture sector.. what has happened since then? Join science writer Maryn McKenna for an update on where that all-importa…
00:44:48 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
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