Heartland Stories Radio
115 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Heartland Stories Radio is a weekly 29-minute radio show hosted by good food pioneer Theresa Marquez and sponsored by the Heartland Health Research Alliance (https://hh-ra.org/).
Each show, meet a new voice from the diverse activists and professionals on the road to change food, farming and public health. Solid information about what we all can do to assure a healthy and a just food system for the 21st century needs to come from a diverse set of voices.
“As a dedicated organic marketing professional, I have dedicated my 40-year career to protecting family farmers and facing our health crisis through a culture of healthy food,” says Marquez. “I am inspired and dedicated to learn from professionals, using science to understand our problems - but sometimes the best common sense and inspiration comes from people on the ground daily facing problems and finding solutions that are often fun and creative. Our food system needs to change and my guests from all walks of life have that goal in common.”
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Dr. David Haas: The Science Behind Healthy Moms and Babies
February 08, 2022 11:06 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. David Haas is the Robert A. Munsick Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Vice Chair for Research in the OBGYN Department at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Haas, a former US Navy Medical Corps Commander, is also on the Board of Directors for the Heartland Health Research Alliance, the sponsor of our radio and podcast show. Tune in to learn more about: His professional medical career; Diabesity - the combination of having both diabetes and obesity; Why a person’s healt...
Dr. Asa Bradman: The CHAMACOS Study and The Impact of Pesticides on Farmworker Kids
February 01, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. Asa Bradman is an expert in exposure assessment and epidemiology focusing on occupational and environmental exposures to pregnant women, children, and farmworkers living in agricultural communities. In 1998, he co-founded the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH) in the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. In 2020, Dr. Bradman joined the faculty at UC Merced. Tune in to learn more about: - Community based research; - The Center for the Health Assessment of Mothe...
Autumn Ness: The Movement to Ban Pesticides on Maui
January 25, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBAutumn Ness, Director of the Hawaiʻi Program of Beyond Pesticides, is a community organizer and policy consultant to state and county legislators on agriculture, pesticide, and housing policy. Autumn was a leader in the historic citizens’ initiative for a moratorium on genetically engineered crops in Maui County, which won at the ballot box in 2014, but lost in courts when the chemical industry sued the County of Maui. She is a founder and Board Vice President of the Maui (food) Hub, which...
Chris Bradshaw: Dreaming Out Loud, A Food Justice Social Enterprise
January 18, 2022 11:30 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBChristopher Bradshaw is the Founder and Executive Director of Dreaming Out Loud Inc., a food justice social enterprise that seeks to create economic opportunities for the D.C. metro region’s marginalized communities through building a healthy, equitable food system. Bradshaw was named an Ashoka-American Express Emerging Innovator in 2015, one of Food Trust’s 20 Leaders Under 40, and the longest-serving member of the DC Food Policy Council where he co-chairs the Urban Agriculture working grou...
Aimée Code: The Xerces Society and The Protection of Invertebrates
January 11, 2022 11:23 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBAimée Code is the Pesticide Program Director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. For more than 20 years she has worked to promote ecologically-sound pest management. In 2013, she launched Xerces Pesticide Program. In this role, she works with community activists, farmers, scientists and decision makers to eliminate harmful pesticide uses and create resilient landscapes. Tune in to learn more about: - About the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and their work to ...
Dave Goulson: Silent Earth
January 04, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDave Goulson is a Professor of Biology at the University of Sussex (England), who specializes in bee ecology. Professor Goulson has published more than 300 scientific articles on the ecology and conservation of bumblebees and other insects, plus seven books, including the Sunday Times bestsellers “A Sting in the Tale” (2013), “The Garden Jungle” (2019), and “Silent Earth” (2021). In 2015 he was named number 8 in BBC Wildlife Magazine’s list of the top 50 most influential people in conservati...
Dr. Joan Dye Gussow: Grow Your Own Food, Eat Healthy and Be Active (re-run)
December 28, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26.6 MBDr. Joan Dye Gussow is a Professor Emeritus of Nutrition and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, nutritionist, writer, and gardener. She was one of the first experts to advocate, as early as the 1970’s, that we “eat locally, think globally.” As a nonagenarian, she is still teaching, gardening and cooking her own food. Tune in to learn more about: – The breakdown of our food system during COVID-19; – Ultra processed food – 60% of food that Americans are eating; – How to ...
Unequal Access: Racial Inequality In Today's Food Systems (re-run)
December 21, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Kara Young is an expert in food systems and racial inequality. Dr. Young worked as an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University and currently sits on the steering committee of the Ohio Food Policy Network and the advisory circle of Kindred: "A Creative Accelerator for Artists of Color". Dr. Young has a decade of experience writing, organizing, teaching, and public speaking on food disparities, racial justice, and qualitative research methods. Tune in to learn more about: - Her o...
Jose Oliva: Why We Fight For Food Workers
December 14, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBJose Oliva is the Campaigns Director at HEAL Food Alliance and Director of the Chicago Area Food System Fund. Jose was the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance, a national coalition of food-worker organizations that collectively represents over 350,000 workers. He is a 2017 James Beard Award recipient and a 2018 American Food Hero Awardee. Tune in to learn more about: - Jose's upbringing in Guatemala and his family's story of being persecuted and fleeing the countr...
Conversation with Atina Diffley, Organic Farmer and Steward of the Land
December 07, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBAtina Diffley is an organic farmer, public speaker and author of the 2013 Minnesota Book Award winner, "Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works", a memoir based on Atina’s life running the Gardens of Eagan organic vegetable farm. Her advocacy has addressed the pressures of suburban development, and she successfully led a legal and citizen campaign against the notorious polluters, Koch Industries, to create an Organic Mitigation Plan for organic farms in Minnesota. Tune in to learn more a...
Beth Hoffman: "Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America"
November 30, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBBeth Hoffman is a beginning farmer working almost 530 acres in Iowa. For the last twenty years, she has worked as a journalist covering food and agriculture. Her work has been aired and published on NPR's Morning Edition, The Guardian, The Salt, Latino USA, and the News Hour. Her new book "Bet the Farm: The Dollars and Sense of Growing Food in America" was published in October 2021 by Island Press. Tune in to learn more about: - Her own story of moving to Iowa, following her husband to far...
Carey Gillam: The Monsanto Papers (re-run)
November 23, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBCarey Gillam is an American investigative journalist and author with more than 30 years of experience covering food and agricultural policies and practices, including 17 years as a senior correspondent for Reuters international news service. She has specialty knowledge regarding the rise of biotech crop technology and the associated rise in pervasive pesticide use in our farming and food production system. Carey's second book, a legal thriller titled "The Monsanto Papers - Deadly Secrets, Co...
Loren Cardeli: Why I Stand With Small Farmers
November 16, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBLoren Cardeli, Executive Director and co-founder of A Growing Culture, an organization that promotes ecological agriculture across the globe. Loren is a leader in a small but growing movement of farmer-centric organizations and has traveled around the world to help set up and run organic farms. Tune in to learn more about: - His personal experiences and memories of his family dinner table; - Why being heard is so important and why there are a lot of voiceless communities around the world...
Sophie Ackoff: Young Farmers and Their Future
November 09, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBSophie Ackoff is the Co-Executive Director of the National Young Farmers Coalition and has mobilized young farmers and their supporters for policy change since 2012. In 2019, she was named one of 25 Leaders in Food and Agriculture to Watch by the Food Tank. Tune in to learn more about: - Sophie's story about organizing farmers; - About the National Young Farmers Coalition and the integration of farmers of color into the coalition; - Why immigration reform is critical for farmworkers; ...
Karen Mischel: Becoming Mayor of Viroqua, Wisconsin
November 02, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBBefore becoming Mayor of her hometown of Viroqua, Wisconsin in 2018, Karen Mischel spent 17 years in the Merchant Marine followed by her current occupation as an organic farm inspector. Tune in to learn more about: - Her story of growing up on a dairy farm in a small town in Wisconsin, her 17 years of traveling the world with the Merchant Marine, and working in the Steward Department and working with food; - Lessons learned in communication from working on the ship; - The challenges of...
Tony Bedard: Frontier Co-op's Story of Giving Back
October 26, 2021 10:30 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBTony Bedard is the Chief Executive Officer of Frontier Co-op, whose mission to nourish people and planet is rooted in corporate social responsibility. Tony has also led more than 25 humanitarian missions to El Salvador and Haiti to support projects in the areas of education, clean water, and healthcare. Tune in to learn more about: - The story of Frontier Co-op and their products; - Tony's story of growing up in rural Iowa in a family with 16 kids and his career starting at Frontier back...
Protect Our Breasts: Young Women Fighting Against Breast Cancer (re-run)
October 19, 2021 10:30 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBOctober is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and we are bringing you back this amazing episode about Cynthia Barstow and her organization Protect Our Breasts. For Cynthia Barstow, Senior Lecturer of Marketing at Amherst Isenberg School at the University of Massachusetts and Founder and Executive Director of Protect Our Breasts, the fight against breast cancer is personal. In 2010, a routine mammogram led to her own breast cancer diagnosis—something faced by nearly 300,000 women each year. As h...
Ashley Koff: The Compassionate Dietician
October 12, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBAshley Koff is a registered dietician, an award-winning nutrition expert, and educator for doctors, nutritionists and fitness professionals. Her mission is to help people get better health powered by better total nutrition. She is the founder of the non-profit Ashley Koff Approved (AKA) and of The Better Nutrition Program. Tune in to learn more about: - The connection between the microbiome, soil and climate; - What is wrong with the food system and especially the marketing of food; -...
Frances Moore Lappé: 50 years of Diet for a Small Planet
October 05, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBFrances Moore Lappé is the author or co-author of twenty books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three-million-copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971. She is the co-founder of three organizations, including the Oakland-based think tank Food First, the Small Planet Institute, which she leads with her daughter, Anna Lappé, and the Small Planet Fund, which channels resources to democratic social movements worldwide. Tune in to learn more about: - What...
Melody Meyer, a passionate organic pioneer
September 28, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBMelody Meyer is an organic pioneer, with over 40 years of extensive knowledge in international trade, the marketing of organic food and organic industry policy. She is on the Board of Trustees for The Organic Trade Center and leads Source Organic, a company dedicated to Education, Advocacy, and Thought Leadership (EAT) for the organic industry and manages the Organic Matters Blog. Tune in to learn more about: - Her grandparents' organic and diverse farm in Iowa; - Her connection to growi...
Ken Cook: The Story of The Environmental Working Group
September 21, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBKen Cook is the president and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group. He is widely recognized as one of the environmental community’s most prominent and influential critics of industrial agriculture, U.S. food and farm policy, and the nation’s broken approach to protecting families and children from toxic substances. Tune in to learn more about: - His involvement with the Farm Bill in 1985; - The start of the Environmental Working Group (EWG) back in 1993 and the first published r...
Dr. Fred Provenza: The Wisdom of Nourishment
September 14, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. Fred Provenza is a Professor Emeritus of Behavioral Ecology in the Department of Wildland Resources at Utah State University, where he worked for 35 years directing an award-winning research group that pioneered an understanding of how learning influences foraging behavior and how behavior links soil, plants, herbivores, and humans. He is also the author of "Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom" and one of the founders of BEHAVE, an internatio...
Lotus Foods: The Story of Sustainable Rice
September 07, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBKen Lee together with his wife Caryl Levine founded Lotus Foods in 1995, a company that focuses on importing handcrafted rice from small family farms. Ken and his team are committed to organic and regenerative practices that is generating more rice from less land, preserving valuable genetic biodiversity, saving hundreds of millions of gallons of water annually, promoting long-term soil health, and removing greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere. Tune in to learn more about: - Ken and Caryl...
Brianna Fiene: Building Resilient and Equitable Food Systems in Wisconsin
August 31, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBBrianna Fiene is a Farm to Institution Outreach Specialist at the Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work focuses on developing partnerships with institutions, researchers, business and industry stakeholders to create resilient value-chains critical for sustainable food-systems and regional farm to school events that connect Midwest producers to institutional markets. Tune in to learn more about: The Center for Integrated Agricultural Syst...
The Heartland Study: The Impact of Herbicides on Mother and Infant Health
August 24, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBMarlaina Freisthler is a Washington, D.C. based researcher and PhD student fellow with the Heartland Health Research Alliance. A mother with Midwestern roots, Marlaina grew up on a farm in Ohio and is passionate about environmentally mediated health challenges to which pregnant women and children are uniquely vulnerable. Tune in to learn more about: - Her own journey of becoming a researcher; - The Heartland Study, which is an observational medical research project designed to answer cri...
Dr. Rupa Marya, Co-author Of: "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice"
August 17, 2021 10:00 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBDr. Rupa Marya is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UC-San Francisco, an activist, author and musician. She was recently awarded the Chancellor's Award for Public Service. Dr. Marya also co-founded the Do No Harm Coalition, an organization of healthcare workers committed to overturning structural obstacles to health. She is also the co-author with Raj Patel of "Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice". Tune in to learn more about: - How social structures create diseases; ...
Raj Patel: “Inflamed”, His Newest Book Co-authored With Rupa Marya
August 10, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBRaj Patel is an award-winning author, film-maker and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa. Raj’s latest book, co-authored with Rupa Marya, entitled “Inflamed: Deep Medicine and The Anatomy of Injustice” was published on August 3, 2021. Tune in to learn more about: - H...
Kendra Klein from Friends of The Earth on pollinators, pesticides and organic food
August 03, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Kendra Klein, senior staff scientist at Friends of the Earth (FOE) is a writer, researcher, and advocate with expertise in environmental sustainability, food, agriculture, and public health. Tune in to learn more about: The women who inspired her to pursue her career About FOE and their projects in Food and Agriculture How neonicotinoids and glyphosate kill pollinators The Organic for All study The power of pesticide corporations in the United States The new study on the im...
Karen Washington: The Healing Power Of Community Gardens In NYC
July 27, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBKaren Washington is a leader and a community activist in New York City’s urban-farming and food-justice movements. She has won a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2014, has been invited to the Obama White House for her involvement with New York’s Botanical Garden, and has been called “urban farming’s de facto godmother.” Karen is also the co-founder of Black Urban Growers and co-owner of Rise and Root Farm, an organic farm in Orange County, NY. Tune in to learn more about: - Her o...
The Local and Sustainable Food Story with Mary Cleaver
July 20, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBMary Cleaver is one of the country’s foremost authorities on sustainable food and local sourcing. Together with her husband, Mary operates Green Table Farms, a 200-acre organic family farm in Washington County, NY. She was the founder and owner of the catering company The Cleaver Co. and The Green Table restaurant in New York City. Tune in to learn more about: - How Mary brought local and sustainable produce and food to New York City 40 years ago; - About her Farm to Chef network; - Th...
Robyn O'Brien: Healthy Soil, Capital And Farming
July 13, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBRobyn O'Brien is one of the most recognized voices in the food industry. Her TEDx talk, based on her book The Unhealthy Truth and watched by millions, exposes the shortcomings of our food system and has influenced policy, legislation, and product formulation in the food industry. Named “food’s Erin Brockovich” by the New York Times, Robyn is also the co-founder and Managing Director of rePlant Capital, an impact investment firm, which deploys integrated capital from soil to shelf to support ...
Unequal Access: Racial Inequality In Today's Food Systems
July 06, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Kara Young is an expert in food systems and racial inequality. Dr. Young worked as an Assistant Professor at the Ohio State University and currently sits on the steering committee of the Ohio Food Policy Network and the advisory circle of Kindred: "A Creative Accelerator for Artists of Color". Dr. Young has a decade of experience writing, organizing, teaching, and public speaking on food disparities, racial justice, and qualitative research methods. Tune in to learn more about: - Her o...
Ken Meter: "Building Community Food Webs"
June 29, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBKen Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the United States, with 50 years of experience in inner-city and rural community capacity building, integrating market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 144 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations. Ken is also the president of the Minneapolis-based Crossroads Resource Center and the author of the book “Bui...
Reclaiming The Ancestral Roots Of Black Farming
June 22, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Shakara Tyler is a returning generation farmer, educator and activist-scholar who engages in Black agrarianism, agroecology, food sovereignty and climate justice. Dr. Tyler serves as Board President at the Detroit Black Community Food Security Network and is a member of the Black Dirt Farm Collective and of the Detroit People’s Food Co-op. Tune in to learn more about: - The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network, their projects and their farm; - Food sovereignty, the right of ...
The Three "R's" In Food And Agriculture - Regenerative, Resilience And Relationship
June 15, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBFred Kirschenmann is a longtime national and international leader in sustainable agriculture. He shares an appointment as Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center and as President of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture in Pocantico Hills, New York. He also manages his family's 1,800-acre certified organic farm in south central North Dakota. Tune in to learn more about: - His story from being a PhD to becoming a leader, champion and pioneer of organic and sustainable farming; -...
Carolyn Raffensperger - The Precautionary Principle's Tale
June 08, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBCarolyn Raffensperger is the Executive Director of the Science and Environmental Health Network (SEHN) as well as an environmental lawyer, specialized in the fundamental changes in law and policy necessary for the protection and restoration of public health and the environment. Tune in to learn more about: - Her own story from studying archeology to becoming an environmental lawyer, inspiration from Jane Goodall's as well as her dad's work; - The philosophy of science and how you can pro...
The Organic Certification Process
June 01, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBCori Skolaski is the Executive Director of the Midwest Organic Service Association - MOSA, the second-largest organic certifier in the United States and the largest certifier of livestock and dairy. MOSA certifies over 2000 clients in 20 states, including nearly 300 organic processors, distributors, retailers and restaurants. Tune in to learn more about: - Cori's personal story and her own path in the organic industry; - The Organic Food Production Act; - A deeper view into the certifi...
Maria Rodale: Growing Up Organic
May 25, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBMaria Rodale is the former chairman and executive officer of Rodale Inc., the global health and wellness content company, as well as an author and retired co-chairman of the Rodale Institute. Based in Pennsylvania, Maria is a mother to three daughters born in three different decades, a grandmother, and a secret children’s book author. Tune in to learn more about: - The Rodale Institute, which was founded by her grandfather J.I. Rodale in 1947; - Why food activists don't retire, they rew...
Why diversity in farming leads to stability
May 18, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTom Frantzen is an organic farmer, who together with his wife Irene, farms on a three hundred acre certified organic farm in New Hampton, Iowa growing corn, soybeans, hay, small grains and raising hogs and cattle. Tune in to learn more about: - Tom's farming story - Why diversity leads to stability in farming - His 'a-ha' moment in the 1980's when he splashed pesticide into his eye that left him half blind - How he learned about the advantage of planting hybrid rye through the Practi...
Reducing Urban Pesticides in Iowa
May 04, 2021 01:19 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBAudrey Tran Lam is an Environmental Health Program Manager at the Center for Energy and Environmental Education (CEEE), University of Northern Iowa as well as the Environmental Health Program Director at Good Neighbor Iowa. She holds a Master's degree in Public Health from the University of Iowa and is currently studying food systems at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Tune in to learn more about: - Her own story and inspiration in choosing to study Public Health; - Her ...
Why Iowa Cannot Feed Itself With Corn And Soybeans
April 26, 2021 14:02 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Kamyar Enshayan is the Director of the Center for Energy & Environmental Education (CEEE) at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Dr. Enshayan has taught environmental studies since 1993 and founded the University of Northern Iowa’s Local Food Program in 1997. He received the 2008 Sustainable Agriculture Achievement Award from Practical Farmers of Iowa. Tune in to learn more about: - The three pillars of the CEEE: Green Iowa Americorps (energy and environmental services to Iowa commu...
The hidden magic in food: Odessa Piper, visionary and real food pioneer
April 20, 2021 19:37 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTo celebrate Earth Day week we’re bringing you a very popular episode that originally aired in February 2021 with Odessa Piper, visionary and real food pioneer. Odessa Piper, founder of L’Etoile, a pioneering farm-to-table restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin, is an author and James Beard award winner as Best Chef Midwest in 2002. In 2018, Odessa helped launch the Food Artisan Immersion Program, a seasonal work-study residency on Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Estate in Spring Green, Wisconsi...
Protect Our Breasts: Young Women Fighting Against Breast Cancer
April 13, 2021 14:17 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBFor Cynthia Barstow, Senior Lecturer of Marketing at Amherst Isenberg School at the University of Massachusetts and Founder and Executive Director of Protect Our Breasts, the fight against breast cancer is personal. In 2010, a routine mammogram led to her own breast cancer diagnosis—something faced by nearly 300,000 women each year. As her treatment began, so did a deep dive into breast cancer research, especially what causes the disease. Tune in to learn more about: - Her personal story o...
Dr. Samina Raja, Change Agent of Food Systems
April 06, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Samina Raja is University of Buffalo's (UB) Professor of Urban Planning, Associate Dean for Research and Inclusive Excellence, principal investigator of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab (the “Food Lab”), and Co-Director of UB's Community for Global Health Equity (CGHE). Dr. Raja is a leading scholar in her field and active leader in shaping food systems policies for healthier communities in Western New York, and she focuses on planning and design for sustainable food...
Tom Philpott and the American Way of Farming
March 30, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBTom Philpott is the food and agriculture correspondent for Mother Jones and author of Perilous Bounty: The Looming Collapse of American Farming and How We Can Prevent It (Bloomsbury 2020). His work has won numerous awards, including a Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism. Tune in to learn more about: - His book Perilous Bounty, where he dives into two abundant but very different agricultural areas - California's Central Valley and the Corn Belt state of Io...
George Siemon on the Spirit of Organic
March 23, 2021 13:27 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBGeorge Siemon is the co-founder and former CEO of CROPP/ Organic Valley, the largest cooperative of organic farmers and one of the nation's leading organic brands. As an organic pioneer and advocate for family farms over the last 30 years, George is passionate about alternative ownership models, such as the cooperative model and the newer purpose trust. Tune in to learn more about: - The 1980s farm crisis and the history of the Organic Standards - The benefits of organic agriculture and ...
“Sicker, Fatter, Poorer”: Understanding endocrine disruptors
March 16, 2021 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Leonardo Trasande, Jim G. Hendrick MD Professor, is the Director of the Division of Environmental Pediatrics and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at the New York University (NYU) School of Medicine. Dr. Trasande is also the author of the 2019 published book “Sicker, Fatter, Poorer: The Urgent Threat of Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Our Health and Future . . . and What We Can Do About It.” Tune in to learn more about: Endocrine disruptors, the chemicals that int...
The Glyphosate Girl's Story
March 09, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBKelly Ryerson is an environmental health writer, filmmaker, and ardent public health advocate. After alleviating her own chronic illness by eating a gluten-free and organic diet, she realized that toxins and chemicals were at the core of the explosion in chronic disease in the United States. Determined to make the issue of glyphosate’s impact on the microbiome more well-known, she began the blog Glyphosate Girl. She continues to focus on the ways in which our food system, soil, and microbiom...
The Monsanto Papers
March 02, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBCarey Gillam is an American investigative journalist and author with more than 30 years of experience covering food and agricultural policies and practices, including 17 years as a senior correspondent for Reuters international news service. She has specialty knowledge regarding the rise of biotech crop technology and the associated rise in pervasive pesticide use in our farming and food production system. Carey's second book, a legal thriller titled "The Monsanto Papers - Deadly Secrets, Co...
The negative impact of toxic chemicals on our health
February 23, 2021 11:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBDr. Bruce Lanphear is a public health physician and professor of health sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. His goal is to quantify and ultimately prevent chronic disease from widespread exposures to toxic chemicals and pollutants. Tune in to learn more about: - Little Things Matter, a compilation of short videos that explain exposure to pollutants, toxic chemicals and excess consumption - How lead exposure in adults is the leading risk factor for dying f...