What Doesn't Kill You
407 episodes - English - Latest episode: 15 days ago - ★★★★ - 27 ratingsFood 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.
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Episode 7: Food Safety Attorney Bill Marler, Food Borne Illnesses
December 04, 2011 18:40 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBThis week Straight, No Chaser takes on foodborne illness when lawyer Bill Marler joins host Katy Keiffer. Marler began representing victims of foodborne illness in 1993, when he represented the most seriously injured survivor of the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Since then he has represented thousands of victims of foodborne illness, including Stephanie Smith, the subject of a Pulitzer Prize winning story in the NY Times magazine, about E. coli contamination. So tune in to get th...
Episode 6: Author Alex Prud’homme, “The Ripple Effect”
November 20, 2011 18:48 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MBWater is the defining resources of the 21st century. Learn more about our water supply and why the issues surrounding our reserves are so important on an informative episode of Straight, No Chaser with Katy Keiffer and guest Alex Prud’homme, author of “The Ripple Effect”. Tune in to learn about everything from Dick Cheney’s Halliburton Loophole and how it’s affected the Clean Water Act, how Eastern water law differs from ours, and why climate change and population growth play an important ro...
Episode 5: Author Ben Hewitt;” Making Supper Safe”
November 13, 2011 18:24 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBFood Safety is the theme on this week’s episode of Straight, No Chaser hosted by Katy Keiffer. Listen in as she speaks with Ben Hewitt, author of “Making Supper Safe: One Man’s Quest to Learn the Truth About Food Safety”, who dispels many food safety myths relating to acute foodborne illness, bacteria and pasteurization. Learn more about the pressing issue of drug resistant bacterium and find out why sub therapeutic antibiotics used to promote growth in livestock are so dangerous. This episo...
Episode 4: Brooklyn Grange; Urban Ag
November 06, 2011 18:49 - 31 minutes - 28.6 MBThis week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer is joined by one of the founders of The Brooklyn Grange, a one-acre rooftop farm in Long Island City. Tune in to hear how the farm was started and how vertical and rooftop farming can play a huge role in the future of agriculture in urban areas. Find out what the guys at The Brooklyn Grange are up to right now, and make sure to vote for them in the BBC’s World Challenge. Vote here!This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
Episode 3: Occupy Against Big Food
October 30, 2011 18:39 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBOn this week’s edition of Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer is joined by food activists Erika Lade and Kristin Wartman to discuss yesterday’s Occupy Against Big Food Rally. Tune in and find out more about the growing movement to change our food system in this country. Can things be fixed by venture capitalists and corporations or do we have to take things into our own hands? Tune in and get inspired! This episode was sponsored by Fairway Market.
Episode 2: Catskill Mountain Keeper Wes Gillingham, Hydrofracking
October 23, 2011 20:12 - 29 minutes - 27.4 MBThe hydrofracking debate is as important as ever and host Katy Keiffer speaks about our water supply with Wes Gillingham of Catskill Mountain Keeper on the 2nd installment of Straight, No Chaser. Listen in and get caught up with recent developments surrounding flowback water and open storage containers. How long do gas wells last? Will drilling affect our water supply and health? Tune in to find the answers to these questions and more. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery.
Episode 1: Cookbook Authors Kathy Gunst, Katherine Alford, and Libbie Summers
October 16, 2011 17:39 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBStraight, No Chaser debuts! Tune in as Katy Keiffer starts the show off right with three talented food personalities and cookbook authors. Hear from Katy Gunst, author of “Notes from a Maine Kitchen: Seasonally Inspired Recipes”, Katherine Alford, director of the Food Network Test Kitchen & Libbie Summers, author of “Whole Hog Cookbook”. Find out what it takes to write a successful cookbook and how recipe testing, “irreverence” , and finance all play in to the final product. All three guests...