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 254: Mike Weaver and the Organization for Competitive Markets
Mike Weaver is the president of the Organization for Competitive Markets, a group that supports small and medium size farms and meat producers in the face of the consolidation of American agriculture…
00:48:46 |
Mon 26 Mar 2018
Episode 253: Katy Keiffer Ruminates on Agricultural Issues, Including Monopolies, Price Fixing, and Consolidation and its Impacts
Understanding what really needs to be fixed to revive american agriculture seems to be more about policy than what we grow and how we grow it. Anti trust legislation, agricultural reform, and a bette…
00:34:12 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Episode 252: The Alternative to Dairy Farmers of America
Board member and lobbyist for the National Dairy Producers Organization, Gary Genske threads the needle on why the industry is falling apart and how Dairy Farmers of America and the USDA are presidin…
00:45:40 |
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Episode 251: Organic Dairy Farming
Gary Hirshberg is a pioneer in developing a national market for an organic commodity, milk. His company began producing yogurt in 1985, after being a farming school for a few years. What is the futur…
00:48:46 |
Mon 19 Feb 2018
Episode 250: Just What Are the Economics of the Dairy Industry and Why Have They Gone So Wrong?
Professor Andy Novakovic takes listeners through the economics of the dairy industry and why milk prices have fallen below the price of production. What can small to medium size dairy farms do to sur…
00:46:58 |
Mon 12 Feb 2018
Episode 249: Why Did Milk Become a Superfood: A Discussion with Dr. Walter Willett
How did milk become the dietary and nutritional staple it is? Dr. Willett explains the history of the marketing campaign that has encouraged Americans to consume massive quantities of milk, and then …
00:42:53 |
Mon 05 Feb 2018
Episode 248: Rhody Fresh Dairy Co-Op Forges a New Path for Small Farmers
Alex LaPrise explains how a small group of Rhode Island dairy farmers banded together to call their own shots. the challenges and the pitfalls of competing with the dairy industry as a small producer…
00:35:42 |
Mon 29 Jan 2018
Episode 247: Why the Dairy Industry is Crushing Dairy Farmers or Killing the Goose
Professor Peter Carstensen has made anti trust law his specialty, particularly as it pertains to the American Dairy Industry. He explains how a co-op model initiated decades ago to help dairy farmers…
00:49:53 |
Mon 22 Jan 2018
Episode 246: Lorraine Lewandrowski
In the first episode of 2018, What Doesn’t Kill You launches a multipart series diving into the dairy industry. Today’s guest is a dairy farmer and environmental attorney in Herkimer County N.Y., Lor…
00:52:39 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Episode 245: The Center of the Plate with Alison Rabschnuk
Is plant-based meat really the meal of the future? Alison Rabschnuk, Director of Corporate Engagement for the Good Food Institute explains how this organization is supporting companies making huge st…
00:46:17 |
Mon 18 Dec 2017
Episode 244: Uprooting FDR's Great Wall of Trees
In the 1930's President Roosevelt responded to the tragedy of the dustbowl by planting millions of trees in what he called "shelterbelts". The trees were meant to hold water, as well as protect the p…
00:40:26 |
Mon 11 Dec 2017
Episode 243: Cultivating the Next Generation: An Evaluation of the Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Program
As the farming population wanes, its essential to train up new ones, or we will be buying everything we eat from other countries. Juli Obudzinski is co-author on a new report about the Beginning Farm…
00:50:44 |
Mon 27 Nov 2017
Episode 242: Hunger in the Age of Trump
Trump's administration is taking aim at SNAP benefits, WIC benefits, watering down school lunch standards, and implementing draconian immigration policies. A distinguished panel led by Food and Envir…
00:46:01 |
Mon 20 Nov 2017
Episode 241: The Great Nutrient Collapse
Veteran agricultural reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich delves into an obscure but highly impactful aspect of climate change; the loss of nutrients from plant life. As temperatures rise, the nutrition…
00:52:26 |
Mon 06 Nov 2017
Episode 240: Indonesia: Wealth of Species
Indonesia is home to a wealth of species, and a vast rainforest that is rapidly disappearing through the untrammeled sale of land to internal and external forces intent on becoming the largest produc…
00:50:31 |
Wed 01 Nov 2017
Episode 239: Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science
Carey Gillam has spent over a decade researching and writing about Monsanto and Glyphosate the worlds most popular agro chemical. Her new book WhiteWash describes a perfect storm of collusion between…
00:50:57 |
Mon 23 Oct 2017
Episode 238: A Foodie's Guide to Capitalism: Understanding the Political Economy of What We Eat
The roots of our food system can be traced back multiple centuries according to author Eric Holt-Gimenez. In a far ranging discussion, just how intertwined food and capitalism is laid bare. The neo l…
00:43:57 |
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Episode 237: DACA and the Food Chain
Immigrants rights activist Jose Oliva describes the impact of revoking DACA on the American Food Chain. The effects won't be pretty, and we are already seeing them as produce and fruit rot in fields …
00:55:22 |
Mon 09 Oct 2017
Episode 236: This Blessed Earth, a new book by journalist Ted Genoways, author of The Chain
Ted Genoways spent a year following the day to day life of a farming family in Nebraska. What follows is a close up look at the risks and rewards of medium size farming in an Agri-business world. He …
00:47:31 |
Mon 02 Oct 2017
Episode 235: Big Chicken
The latest from agro journalist Maryn McKenna, Big Chicken, should be rattling more than a few cages. Her exhaustive work on the rise of antibiotic resistant pathogens, largely thanks to the American…
00:51:02 |
Mon 25 Sep 2017
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