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Wisconsons Water Is Laden With PFAS, Republicans Want to Give the Polluters Immunity

What Doesn't Kill You - July 20, 2024 00:14 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Erik Kanter, President of Clean Wisconsin joins to explain how republicans are withholding funds for clean up until the legislature passes a bill immunizing polluters from prosecution for polluting the drinking water of hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites. Heritage Radio Network is a listene...

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Who Owns Our Water? Who Is Getting to Sell It? Gambling in Water Futures Is Real.

What Doesn't Kill You - July 13, 2024 02:06 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
New legislation introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ro Khanna would put the kybosh on trading in water futures. Will it succeed? Mary Grant, Director of the Public Water for All initiative at Food and Water Watch joins to discuss this legislation, and other issues affecting...

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Everything You Need to Know about Horseshoe Crabs!

What Doesn't Kill You - June 27, 2024 19:07 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Will Harlan from the Center for Biological Diversity joins to talk about the keystone species horseshoe crabs, a population that is crashing, and for which the Center is seeking endangered species protection. Learn why we need to protect this harmless and ancient creature from human exploitation...

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Antibiotic Resistance Continues Apace, H1N1 Jumps Species! WTH???

What Doesn't Kill You - June 09, 2024 16:48 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Science writer Maryn McKenna, author of Superbug and Big Chicken, joins to discuss the feeble attempts to rein in antibiotic use in animal agriculture. As the World Health Organization and others blare out the warnings about a post antibiotic medical landscape, American livestock producers can't...

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Cage Free Laying Goes Mainstream! Only 10% in 2014, Now Edging Over 40%

What Doesn't Kill You - May 31, 2024 18:02 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
The Humane League, an advocacy organization seminal to both encouraging the egg industry to improve its conditions for laying hens, but also to hold restaurants accountable when they don't keep their promises to use only cage free eggs. Kelly Myers, Director of Corporate Engagement joins to disc...

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Just How Much Money Are We Actually Wasting in Our Efforts to Remediate Our Polluted Waterways Like the Gulf of Mexico or the Chesapeake?

What Doesn't Kill You - May 23, 2024 22:37 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
According to journalist Keith Schneider whose prize winning series Toxic Terrain has explored many of the ills associated with our style of agriculture, "the voluntary conservation practices promoted by federal and state governments, and Big Ag, are the costliest and least effective pollution pr...

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Just How Much DOES Industry Influence Science at the University Level? Turns Out, Quite a Bit.

What Doesn't Kill You - May 15, 2024 22:32 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Professors Viveca Morris and Jennifer Jacquet dug into how the livestock industry has co-opted certain university experts to minimize the impact of findings on climate change related to industrialized animal agriculture. Their findings have been published in a new paper detailing just how succes...

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Lets Review the Farm Bill With Tom Philpott

What Doesn't Kill You - April 05, 2024 21:29 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Veteran agricultural journalist Tom Philpott joins to talk about what is and isn't in the newest iteration of the Farm Bill. Despite all the extra funds from the Investment Recovery Act, and all the information we now have about climate disruption, and other impacts on agriculture, we seem to be...

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Who Is Minding Our Groundwater?

What Doesn't Kill You - March 29, 2024 21:36 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Professor Upmanu Lall, director of the Water Institute at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University gives us the details on how we map, model, and distribute our dwindling groundwater supplies. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast ne...

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Barons! You Thought the Age of the Robber Baron Was Over? Guess Again!

What Doesn't Kill You - March 14, 2024 21:53 - 47 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Author Austin Frerick joins the show to talk about his new book: Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food System. An awesome journey through the biggest monopolies in the food biz, from grains, to hogs, to coffee, to grocery chains... Meet the unknown players making bank on the...

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Pushing Back on the Poultry Industry Is Not for the Faint of Heart.

What Doesn't Kill You - March 01, 2024 20:58 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
For at least 20 years, the burgeoning poultry industry has been spreading the waste litter from their barns across one particular watershed in Oklahoma. Journalist Ben Felder dug into the origins of the lawsuit brought by a long gone state attorney general seeking to bring some accountability to...

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Farm Belt States Are Getting Serious About Agro-Chem and Cancer

What Doesn't Kill You - February 23, 2024 16:20 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Accross the farm belt, cancer cases are spiking, and states are getting serious about tracking and providing guidelines for exposure to agro-chem. Journalist Keith Schneider has been digging into this for months and reports. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast netwo...

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How the American Diet is Feeding The Groundwater Crisis, redux!

What Doesn't Kill You - February 03, 2024 00:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Straight outta the NY Times, a groundbreaking article by journalists Christopher Flavelle and Somini Sengupta shows the highway between mcNuggets and our diminishing supply of fresh clean water for human consumption. Flavelle joins the show to describe what he and his colleague uncovered as part...

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The EPA Finally Re-Considers Its Regulations on Effluent From Meat Processing.

What Doesn't Kill You - January 27, 2024 00:27 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
John Rumpler, Clean Water DIrector and lead attorney for Environment America, joins to talk about the long overdue revision of regulations governing wastewater from slaughterhouses and meat processing plants. Decades overdue, public hearings on the subject are being held January 24th and 31st 20...

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Is One Man Going to Finally Going to Change the Way Iowa Deals With Its Waterways?

What Doesn't Kill You - December 13, 2023 22:41 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Chris Jones, author of The Swine Republic, featured here in June, is back to talk about the remarkable series of conversations he is now having around Iowa and his region about big ag and water pollution. We will also talk about heavily funded mitigation tools that are not mitigating, but are li...

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Bio-Digesters: The Race Is On!

What Doesn't Kill You - December 08, 2023 01:08 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Big Ag and Big Oil are getting in bed together to promote the buildout of bio-digesters to manage animal waste. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing masquerading as a good thing? Reporter Keith Schneider gives some context on this long overdue attention to pollution from the animal agriculture s...

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The Ethanol Scam

What Doesn't Kill You - November 23, 2023 00:09 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Professor Sylvia Secchi from University of Iowa joins to talk about how ethanol is a giant giveaway to the ag industry, purporting to be a partial solution to fossil fuel impacts. Instead, the excessive cultivation of corn is having disastrous impacts on soil and water... and guess what? It's an...

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Cancer Road in Minnesota

What Doesn't Kill You - November 10, 2023 19:59 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Journalist Keith Schneider examines a spate of cancer diagnoses in farm country in Minnesota. On one short stretch of a road in Berne Minnesota, shared by four farming families, 12 people developed cancer, and seven of them died. What linked these people in disease is the contamination of their ...

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Watering Down Organic Standards

What Doesn't Kill You - October 12, 2023 21:56 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Organic food purchasers buy organic and pay the extra for a reason. New regulations being proposed by some members of congress would make it much easier for corporate food businesses to use that premium label to sell product that doesn't actually meet the real benchmarks of organic. Tom Chapman,...

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Farmland for Farmers, Not Farmland for Hedge Funds

What Doesn't Kill You - October 06, 2023 22:48 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
The National Family Farm Coalition is advocating for the Farmland For Farmers Act introduced by Senator Cory Booker in July of this year. Agricultural land needs to stay accessible to actual farmers, rather than offer an opportunity to corporate entities to capitalize on high land prices, at the...

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Electric Dog Collars on Cattle? This Rancher Has Ditched the Fence.

What Doesn't Kill You - September 22, 2023 21:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Western states are home to herds of grazing beasts, and to keep them in the right place, thousands of miles of fencing is required. Conservation Northwest Associate Director Jay Kehne advocates a different path: shock collars for cattle. The cattle stay put, but other wildlife (think deer, elk, ...

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Farm Bill 2023: Get the Skinny

What Doesn't Kill You - September 15, 2023 20:02 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Award winning journalist and author, and favorite guest, Tom Philpott returns to talk all things Farm Bill. What will change, what is new, and what is, sigh, same old, same old? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a...

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PFAS! What Are They? Why Are They in Everything Including Us?

What Doesn't Kill You - June 14, 2023 22:19 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Every day a new article describes the prevalence of PFAS in our water, land, food, and bodies. David Cwiertny, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and in Chemistry at the University of Iowa, takes us through the impacts, the options for remediation, and what to expect from regulato...

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The Swine Republic: Read It and Weep, but You Will Be Laughing Your Head off Too...

What Doesn't Kill You - June 01, 2023 01:54 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Iowa State University Water Quality expert Chris Jones, @riverraccoon, just published a damning indictment of the governing officials of Iowa and Big Ag in overseeing the disastrous consequences of our profit over people driven agricultural model. Learn how the Department of Natural Resources an...

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California Central Valley Braces for Catastrophic Floods... We Should Be Bracing as Well

What Doesn't Kill You - May 19, 2023 22:02 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Tom Philpott, author of Perilous Bounty, was prescient in his 2020 book in a lengthy description of the 1862 floods that inundated Central Valley in a once in a century flood. Now Central Valley is facing an even more catastropic scenario as climate disruption adds fuel to an already volatile ar...

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Ducks and Rice; A Beautiful Synergy

What Doesn't Kill You - May 04, 2023 22:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Vermont farmer Erik Andrus is practicing an ancient form of agro-ecology from Japan. Learn how the old informs the new as Erik describes his approach and how it works. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member! ...

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The Cocklebur, a New Newsletter From Longtime Ag Reporter Bryce Oates

What Doesn't Kill You - April 13, 2023 00:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Bryce Oates, a regular contributor to Civil Eats, Daily Yonder and other pubs has launched a newsletter that comes from a rural perspective. In this episode we talk about the new WOTUS controversy, and all the bluster and drama that plays out in a rule that essentially regulates nothing, but som...

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Avian Flu, Zoonotic Disease, and How Close Are We to a New Pandemic?

What Doesn't Kill You - March 09, 2023 02:57 - 50 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Science writer and author Maryn McKenna is back to talk about her newest piece for Wired where she considers the implications of Avian flu moving to new territory and infecting new mammals, though not yet infecting people to any great degree. What does this say about our methods for raising anim...

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Farms Not Feed

What Doesn't Kill You - March 02, 2023 10:14 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Sherri Dugger, Executive Director of the Socially Responsible Agriculture Project, joins What Doesn't Kill You to discuss a recent meeting in Washington with advocacy groups urging the USDA and Congress to fund actual farms, rather than subsidizing commodities for animal feed and ethanol. Learn ...

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Cage Free Eggs Should Be the Norm. How Is That Working Out?

What Doesn't Kill You - February 09, 2023 05:48 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 27 ratings
Vicky Bond, President of the Humane League, joins to discuss their campaign to transition the egg industry to cage free. Who is walking the walk and who talks the talk but doesn't walk? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by be...

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