Latest Food policy experts Podcast Episodes
The Facts: Food & GHG Emissions
Eating Matters - May 23, 2021 19:30 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe hear about greenhouse gas emissions and their consequences all the time, but who’s measuring those emissions? How can countries use that data to develop more sustainable methods for producing and distributing food? Francesco Tubiello, a senior statistician and climate change specialist with t...
Food & Fertility
Eating Matters - April 04, 2021 22:56 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHow does nutrition impact your ability to conceive? What are key nutrients and vitamins and their recommended food sources for boosting both women AND men’s fertility? Are there multigenerational health effects of our dietary and lifestyle choices? Dr. Nicole Avena, research neuroscientist, nutr...
Mercy for Animals
Eating Matters - March 29, 2021 16:52 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut is joined by Leah Garcés, President of Mercy for Animals (MFA), an organization working to construct a compassionate food system and end commercial animal agriculture. They discuss MFA’s undercover investigation into the horrific conditions of Costco’s chicken farm as profiled i...
The Monsanto Papers
Eating Matters - March 14, 2021 22:56 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut welcomes the award-winning investigative journalist, Carey Gillam, back to show to discuss her new book, The Monsanto Papers: Deadly Secrets, Corporate Corruption, and One Man’s Search for Justice. A follow up to Gillam’s first book, Whitewash – an explosive expose on Monsanto an...
Perilous Bounty
Eating Matters - February 08, 2021 00:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWe know that U.S. industrial agriculture has had monumental effects on our climate, but how has climate change reciprocally impacted our agricultural system? And, an even more pressing question, how close is our agricultural system to total collapse? In his new book, “Perilous Bounty: The Loomin...
Matriark Foods
Eating Matters - February 07, 2021 18:59 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe US is a global leader of food waste, generating about 40 MILLION tons annually, which represents between 30 - 40% of the food supply. Within this waste stream are 10 million tons of perfectly usable vegetables that don’t make it to market. Recognizing the critical role this produce could pla...
Ending Domestic Hunger
Eating Matters - February 07, 2021 18:22 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe fight to eliminate hunger entails measures that go well beyond food banks, soup kitchens, and SNAP benefits. Prior to Biden’s inauguration and the release of the Administration's COVID & economic relief proposal, host Jenna Liut interviewed Joel Berg to discuss how higher wages, affordable h...
Farmers for Trump
Eating Matters - December 23, 2020 01:20 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsLongtime food and agriculture policy reporter, Chuck Abbott, helps us to understand our nation’s “farmer voting bloc” and its loyalty to Trump throughout the last two election cycles. What policies and belief systems have generated our rural-urban political divide? Chuck takes us through the tra...
Native Foods with Chef Nephi Craig
Eating Matters - December 16, 2020 04:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFollowing up on our previous episode featuring Sanjay Rawal, director of the newly-released film, Gather, host Jenna Liut interviews a central character of the documentary: Native food practitioner, Nephi Craig. Chef Craig is the founder of both the Native American Culinary Association as well a...
Gather
Eating Matters - December 13, 2020 20:02 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsEver wonder why we don’t eat Bison meat in this country? This is a little known - but extremely important - part of American history that perfectly demonstrates one way the US government worked to systematically steal land from and decimate Native American people. It was a tactic that effectivel...
The Secret Life of Groceries
Eating Matters - November 29, 2020 18:11 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut interviews author Benjamin Lorr to talk about his new book, “The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket,” which delves into what it takes to get food onto grocery store shelves and who suffers the consequences of our increasing demand for cheap foo...
4 Years of Trump
Eating Matters - November 18, 2020 17:25 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAs the country prepares for President-elect Biden to take office in January, host Jenna Liut is joined by journalist Lisa Held to reflect on the major food and agricultural policy changes we have experienced since Trump took office and the long-term effects they will have on our food system. Li...
Upcycled Food
Eating Matters - November 09, 2020 20:48 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut interviews Turner Wyatt, Co-founder & CEO of the Upcycled Food Association, a nonprofit working to reduce food waste by growing the upcycled food economy. They discuss consumer demand upcycled products, UFA’s progress in creating an Upcycled Food Certification Standard, and of co...
A Conversation with Danielle Nierenberg
Eating Matters - November 01, 2020 23:35 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFood systems expert and this year’s winner of the Julia Childs Award, Danielle Nierenberg, joins host Jenna Liut to talk about her work as the President of Food Tank, how COVID has lifted the veil on systematic issues plaguing our food system, and the importance of having uncomfortable conversio...
Let's Ask Marion
Eating Matters - October 18, 2020 23:20 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut kicks off the fall season with the one and only Marion Nestle to talk about her new book, "Let's Ask Marion: What You Need to Know about the Politics of Food, Nutrition, and Health" published by the University of California Press. The book features a series of short essays that e...
Farming While Black
Eating Matters - August 09, 2020 18:40 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut speaks with farmer, educator, author, and food sovereignty activist, Leah Penniman. She is the Co-Founder, Co-Director and Program Manager of Soul Fire Farm in Petersburg, New York, and she is the author of the book, "Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liber...
Environmental Racism & Justice
Eating Matters - July 26, 2020 22:50 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut speaks with environmental justice expert, Dr. Fatemah Shafiei about how communities of color are disproportionately affected by environmental hazard, the toll it takes on their collective health and overall wellbeing, and what is being done (and not done) to address these issues....
Food Initiatives at the Rockefeller Foundation
Eating Matters - July 26, 2020 22:31 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut speaks with Devon Klatell, Managing Director of the Food Initiative at the Rockefeller Foundation, on the longstanding work the Foundation has done to advance a healthier and more equitable food system as well as its recent focus on supporting school nutrition programs in the U.S...
Supply Chain Woes
Eating Matters - May 10, 2020 21:51 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut speaks with Washington Post journalist, Laura Reiley, about her ongoing coverage of the effects that COVID-19 is having on the food supply chain, including why we have seen a paradoxical rise in both food waste and food insecurity; why the meat industry is being hit particularly ...
How to Eat
Eating Matters - May 10, 2020 21:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsDr. David L. Katz, MD, MPH, co-author of the newly published book, "How to Eat: All Your Food & Diet Questions Answered," joins host Jenna Liut to discuss the incredibly important (and often unappreciated) role diet plays in your overall health, how it relates to the current COVID-19 epidemic, a...
A Keynote Species
Eating Matters - May 10, 2020 21:10 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut welcomes New York Times bestselling and James A. Beard Award-winning author, Mark Kurlansky, back on the show to discuss his new book, “Salmon: A Fish, the Earth, and the History of Their Common Fate". Eating Matters is powered by Simplecast.
Kvarøy Arctic
Eating Matters - March 29, 2020 20:56 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAquaculture – or farmed seafood – is one of the most resource-efficient ways to produce protein, and it has helped improve nutrition and food security around the world. And yet, it is an industry that is still widely misunderstood. Alf-Goran Knutsen, the CEO of Kvarøy Arctic, a third-generation ...
Trash Talk
Eating Matters - March 22, 2020 18:24 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhat exactly happens after you throw something out? (Spoiler alert: given the current state of the recycling industry these days, it probably goes straight to landfill.) So how is waste processed, where and by whom? Waste Dive journalist Ev Crunden joins host Jenna Liut to give a comprehensive o...
Julie Guthman
Eating Matters - March 15, 2020 22:15 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut speaks with author Julie Guthman about her new book, Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry, which tells the story of how California's strawberry industry came to rely on soil fumigants, and how that reliance reverberated throughout the re...
Closing the Loop on Food Waste
Eating Matters - February 17, 2020 23:39 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHost Jenna Liut is joined by Amanda Weeks, CEO & Co-Founder of Ambrosia, a closed-loop manufacturing company that uses food waste as a catalyst to re-imagine common resource intensive and water-based products. They discuss how Ambrosia is the next frontier of the circular economy, why their very...
Chatting with Brooklyn Borough President, Eric Adams
Eating Matters - February 10, 2020 00:19 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsBrooklyn Borough President – and 2021 Mayoral Candidate – Eric Adams joins host Jenna Liut to discuss how he’s put food issues and public health at the forefront of his political agenda and what he is doing to create a better food system for all New Yorkers. Eating Matters is powered by Simplec...
Episode 153: Kid Food
Eating Matters - January 12, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAuthor Bettina Elias Siegel joins host Jenna Liut to talk about her first book, "Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children," which was recently published this past November. Eating Matters is powered by Simplecast.
Kid Food
Eating Matters - January 12, 2020 23:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsAuthor Bettina Elias Siegel joins host Jenna Liut to talk about her first book, "Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children," which was recently published this past November. Eating Matters is powered by Simplecast.
Episode 152: LIVE at Industry City with John Ratliff of Ends Meat
Eating Matters - December 26, 2019 14:48 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThere's so much to consider when shopping for meat. Not only do you need some basic knowledge about what cuts you want to purchase, but you also have to navigate decisions around ethics, sustainability, animal welfare, cost, and more. On today's special live recording of Eating Matters, Jenna ha...
Episode 151: Plastic Pollution Problems
Eating Matters - December 15, 2019 23:03 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsPackaging trash - including what is used for food and beverages - now accounts for nearly half of all plastic waste generated globally. And most of it never gets recycled or incinerated. National Geographic writer, Laura Parker, joins host Jenna Liut to discuss how we got to this point with plas...
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