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
Draining the "Big Food" Swamp
Draining the "Big Food" Swamp is an in depth report on lobbying money in politics backed by major food and beverage corporations. Buying politicians and skewing legislation is the game. Executive Di…
00:50:11 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Migrant workers and the H2A visa Program
H2A visa workers, those who pick and harvest our food, are some of the most abused and least protected of all labor categories. David Bacon, author of a new report on the subject joins to describe t…
00:41:29 |
Mon 22 Feb 2021
The Poultry Industy Pays fines, Pleads guilty to price fixing
Anti-trust lawyer and University of Wisconsin Professor Emeritus Peter Carstensen joins to discuss the recent fines and settlements extracted from the poultry industry in the wake of investigations i…
00:54:10 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
New Dietary Guidelines; what didn't but should have changed!
Journalist Greta Moran digs into the new version of the National Dietary Guidelines so the rest of us don't have to. Big surprise! Industry dictates what they are going to be.
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00:41:16 |
Fri 05 Feb 2021
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal.
Mark Bittman, former NYTimes columnist and noted author joins to discuss his newest book.
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00:49:38 |
Wed 27 Jan 2021
Rebuilding dairy in Pennsylvania
Aaron DeLong of Pasa Sustainable Agriculture in PA will describe his organizations efforts to recharge and rebuild Pennsylvania's dairy industry
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00:43:17 |
Mon 18 Jan 2021
The latest on COVID-19 in food processing with Leah Douglas
In this update, Leah talks about her most recent piece for FERN detailing how numbers are underreported in meatpacking plants in North Carolina, and no agency is regulating them.
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00:38:23 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
USDA nominations; new legislation to support Black farmers
Tom Philpott from Mother Jones comes by to chat about who is in the running for the Secretary of Agriculture, and to discuss newly introduced legislation to recompense and support Black farming famil…
00:59:24 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Meat Industry gets its way on line speeds
Amanda Hitt from the Government Accountability Projects Food Integrity campaign comes back to talk about the increases in line speed jammed through by the industry and the Trump administration. What …
00:48:37 |
Mon 30 Nov 2020
How Biden is likely to react to Trump administration roll backs on protections for food and farming
The Counter's senior reporter Claire Brown joins Katy Keiffer to describe her team's predictions on rules rolled back by Trump. Their conversation covers topics as varied as SNAP, WOTUS (the EPA's ef…
00:34:09 |
Mon 23 Nov 2020
Monthly recap on the Covid Map with Leah Douglas
Leah Douglas comes back for her monthly wrap of Covid news in the meatpacking industry. Who is collecting data? Where is it going?
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00:42:42 |
Tue 03 Nov 2020
Climate change and resiliency in agriculture
Reporter for Civil Eats, and Farm Report host and producer Lisa Held gives a look at what a Biden presidency might mean for addressing the impact of climate change on agriculture.
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00:44:54 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Trump Administration Cancels USDA Wage Survey; Tens of Thousands of Farmworkers Will Suffer Massive Wage Cuts
As if being a farmworker could get any worse, the Trump administration, via USDA has killed a critical report that determines wages for farmworkers, all but guaranteeing even less income in the comin…
00:42:32 |
Mon 19 Oct 2020
How one dairy farm beat the Covid business blues
Wright's Dairy farm in northern Rhode Island INCREASED profitability during Covid. Huh?
Image courtesy of Cathryn Kennedy.
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00:38:12 |
Mon 12 Oct 2020
Weather and agriculture
Michigan Meteorologist and professor of Geography at MSU, Jeff Andreson, joins to talk about how changing weather patterns are affecting agricultural communities.
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00:51:13 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
OSHA fines big meatpackers. Are they kidding?
In our monthly roundup with Leah Douglas we talk about the recent fines levied on Smithfield and JBS by OSHA. Spoiler alert, they are barely even fines. Meanwhile the companies continue to see signif…
00:38:37 |
Mon 21 Sep 2020
Perious Bounty, a new book by Mother Jones reporter Tom Philpott
Tom Philpott returns to discuss his new book, Perilous Bounty, an examination of American Agriculture in our key food producing states.
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00:52:36 |
Mon 14 Sep 2020
Monthly Roundup with Leah Douglas
FERN reporter Leah Douglas reviews the Covid Map for meatpackers, describes her oped in rebuttal to Smithfield and reviews the ag news
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00:30:43 |
Mon 17 Aug 2020
Where is OSHA in meatpacking?
Tom Philpott of Mother Jones discusses his recent story about Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia and how he has steered the industry away from safety for workers.
In March, HRN began producing all…
00:45:42 |
Mon 03 Aug 2020
Propagate Ventures, a new modeling tool to foster agroecology
Ethan Steinberg of Propagate Ventures describes a modeling tool to identify costs and rewards of adopting an agroecology style of farming.
In March, HRN began producing all of our 35 weekly shows f…
00:38:02 |
Thu 23 Jul 2020
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