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
How Can Policy Affect Food Waste?
Emily Broad Leib, Faculty Director of the Harvard Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic, offers policy solutions to managing food waste on consumer and corporate platforms.
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Tue 11 Jan 2022
Humanewashing: Think Those Labels Mean Something?
Executive Director of Farm Forward, an advocacy group, takes on the greenwashing of Animal welfare certifications, drawing the distinctions between industry and independent labeling, as well as anima…
00:35:49 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
Organizing Poultry Workers in Arkansas
Magaly Licolli is a labor organizer in Northwest Arkansas, home to the chicken industry. She has been helping poultry workers push back against industry, demanding health care, paid leave, and better…
00:41:36 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
Economic Study Shows the Value of Regional Agriculture on State Finances
Economic researcher Dave Swenson and Niman Ranch Farmer Ron Mardesen discuss the financial impact on rural communities of hog farming in more traditional systems vs the industrialized model so preval…
00:43:54 |
Mon 29 Nov 2021
Scare Tactics by Factory Farms in Minnesota
Sonja Trom Eayrs, a family law attorney in Minneapolis, has documented the way factory farming giants are deploying deceptive practices, intimidation, and harassment to expand their facilities throug…
00:47:18 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Farmer Focus, a New Kind of Poultry Company
Corwin Heatwole, Founder and CEO of Farmer Focus, joins to talk about creating a whole new model for industrial chicken production: "farmer-focused", organic, and certified humane. How did he achieve…
00:45:26 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Lab Grown Meat: A Deep Dive Into Viability
Deputy Editor of The Counter, Joe Fassler, joins the show to deconstruct his article on lab-grown meat; the economics, the infrastructure, and the viability as a replacement for actual meat.
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Wed 20 Oct 2021
Poultry Farmer Blows the Whistle on Perdue
Rudy Howell, a long-time contract grower for Perdue spoke up. He got fired. He has something to say about the industry, along with Amanda Hitt from the Food Integrity Campaign/ Government Accountabil…
00:44:30 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
The Attack of the Superweeds
Journalist H. Claire Brown comes in to discuss the implications of her NY Times article on how weeds are outpacing science by half a decade. What will that mean for farmers? What will it cost consume…
00:41:39 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Defending Beef 2.0
Author Nicolette Hahn Niman comes back to talk about her revised and expanded, Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat.
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00:45:17 |
Mon 13 Sep 2021
Air from there pollutes right here!
Professor Meredith Hastings and PHD candidate Emily Joyce of Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, discuss the implications of several recent studies on how r…
00:47:12 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
Biden takes aim at Consolidation and Monopolies
Mike Callicrate, activist and cattle rancher comes back to talk about the Executive Order signed by Biden that addresses long standing grievances in the animal agriculture sector, among others. Inclu…
00:46:30 |
Tue 20 Jul 2021
JBS Pays 11Million in ransom to cybercriminals
Colonel John Hoffman of the Food Protection and Defense Institute has been advising companies and government on how to harden their cyber functions. Here he deconstructs how JBS came to be hacked and…
00:46:26 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
The Climate Bill even Big Ag Loves
Mother Jones ag correspondent Tom Philpott deconstructs the boondoggle that is the new "climate bill" beloved by all who pollute. Dubbed "GROWING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS", this bill makes people like Joni …
00:44:23 |
Tue 15 Jun 2021
Water, the Commodity Trade?
Dr. Steve Suppan joins to discuss the very first futures contract for water, and the implications for the rest of us.
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00:49:40 |
Tue 25 May 2021
Eating with the Ecosystem
Eating with the Ecosystem director Kate Masury joins to talk about encouraging chefs and consumers to appreciate underutilized species of fish, improving the fishing industry for fishermen, and adj…
00:42:01 |
Mon 17 May 2021
The State of American Drinking Water
Legal expert Valerie Baron from Natural Resources Defense Council joins to discuss the existential threat to safe, available drinking water across the United States. Topics include The Clean Water Ac…
00:46:01 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Iowa has had enough of CAFOs
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Art Cullen comes on to talk about the pressure of the hog industry on Iowa's environment, joined by Wisconsin Farmer Lisa Doerr. Support the Western Iowa Journalism …
00:45:20 |
Mon 05 Apr 2021
More scandals in meatpacking
Leah Douglas reports on a Smithfield meatpacking plant in California whose negligence has exposed hundreds of workers to Covid, and thousands of people in the surrounding community.
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00:37:19 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Just Eat! with Barry Estabrook
Award winning journalist Barry Estabrook shares his insights on the multibillion dollar industry that is the diet industry. Fascinating and funny.
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Mon 15 Mar 2021
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