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 294: What's the Beef? Cattlemen push back on indus
Lia Biondo from the US Cattlemen's Association takes us through the troubles for ranchers and feeders.
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Mon 07 Oct 2019
Episode 293: Economic Research Service gives a snapshot of farm income and well being
How are farmers doing financially in the wake of the trade wars and historically low crop prices. The ERS, or Economic Research Service agency within the USDA, (yes that agency, now located in Kansa…
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Tue 01 Oct 2019
Episode 292: Rules Change in Pork Inspection
Amanda Hitt from the Government Accountability Project gives a long view perspective on the new rules in pork inspection.
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Mon 23 Sep 2019
Episode 291: Price Fixing in Poultry??? Really?
FERN Reporter Leah Douglas discusses a recent article on how the poultry industry has been colluding for years on price fixing and wages.
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Mon 16 Sep 2019
Episode 290: The Labor of Lunch
Author Jennifer Gaddis discusses her new book about The National School Lunch Program.
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Mon 09 Sep 2019
Episode 289: Turning a silk purse from a sow's ear, or in this case from human urine to low cost fertilizer
The Rich Earth Institute is pioneering technology to capture and convert human urine into no/low cost fertilizer for agriculture. What will it take to make it universal?
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Mon 24 Jun 2019
Episode 288: Agroforestry, an ancient concept with future implications
New interest in an ancient agricultural technnique brought together several thousand educators, scientists, and activists at a conference in France. With Erik Hoffner of Mongabay.com.
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Tue 18 Jun 2019
Episode 287: Congressional Committees acknowledge climate change when it comes to Agriculture, elsewhere, not so much.
Alyssa Charney from NSAC reports on recent congressional committee meetings acknowledging the devastating impacts of climate change on farmers. Lip service paid to building resiliency. The question i…
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Mon 03 Jun 2019
Episode 286: Why is Chobani bailing out a school district in Rhode Island?
Margaret Read a food policy consultant for school districts explains why this national story about school lunch debt is a pretty common occurrence.
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Mon 20 May 2019
Episode 285: Why is the USDA attacking the Economic Research Service?
Today we talk with Bryce Oates of the Daily Yonder. If you have been paying attention, there has been a fair amount of new about the proposed relocation of the ERS and NIFA, two agencies within the U…
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Mon 13 May 2019
Episode 284: RTE Ancient Grains
Janet Holt saw a niche for low gluten, ancient and heirloom grains already cooked. She started RTE Cuisine and has some lessons to impart to anyone who thinks they have a great idea!
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Mon 06 May 2019
Episode 283: The Heartland Forum with Art Cullen
Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize winning editor of Iowa's Storm Lake Times joins the show today to talk about the Democratic candidates whose panel he moderated recently at the Heartland Forum.
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00:48:20 |
Mon 15 Apr 2019
Episode 282: Democratic candidates swarmed the Family Farmers Rally in Iowa. What did they have to say?
FERN reporter Leah Douglas attended the Family Farmers Rally in Storm City Iowa where 5 democrats tried to explain that they have a recipe to fix american agriculture. At least they are talking abou…
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Mon 08 Apr 2019
Episode 281: Iowa's Real Population; it ain't all human
Chris Jones returns to the show to talk about hog waste and its impact on water quality
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Mon 01 Apr 2019
Episode 280: Activists in Iowa push back on CAFOS
Meet Diane Rosenberg, an Iowa citizen who does more than her fair share in helping communities stave off the expansion of animal agriculture.
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Mon 25 Mar 2019
Episode 279: Cape Fear is really scary
Larry Cahoon, PHD professor of Biology and Marine Biology takes us through the impacts of chemical dumping in the Cape Fear River in North Carolina
Photo courtesy of Larry Cahoon.
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Mon 11 Mar 2019
Episode 278: Six months post Florence, how are North Carolina waterways managing their cleanup
Rick Dove, Senior Advisor to the Waterkeeper Alliance and Riverkeeper for the Neuse River comes back to describe the state response to the disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane Florence.
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Mon 25 Feb 2019
Episode 277: Building a New Generation of New York Farmers
Samantha Levy, regional policy manager for New York State joins Katy to talk about a new initiative called Farmland for a New Generation New York that works to bring access to land and knowledge to a…
00:41:47 |
Mon 18 Feb 2019
Episode 276: How the Spaniards are pushing back against Industrial Meat
David Sanchez Carpio is the Spanish liaison to Food and Water Watch. In this episode he describes how rural communities push back against industrial animal ag with the help of NGOS like FWW
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Mon 11 Feb 2019
Episode 275: Pork industry is growing by leaps and bounds in hog heavy Spain. What are activists doing about it?
Patricia de Rada from Compassion in World Farming, and Alberto Diez from Anda discuss how the industry is running roughshod over rural communities and traditional methods to ramp up their export bus…
00:49:57 |
Mon 28 Jan 2019
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