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Lets Review the Farm Bill With Tom Philpott
What Doesn't Kill You - April 05, 2024 21:29 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsVeteran 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...
Who Is Minding Our Groundwater?
What Doesn't Kill You - March 29, 2024 21:36 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsProfessor 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...
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 ★★★★ - 26 ratingsAuthor 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...
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 ★★★★ - 26 ratingsFor 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...
Farm Belt States Are Getting Serious About Agro-Chem and Cancer
What Doesn't Kill You - February 23, 2024 16:20 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsAccross 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...
How the American Diet is Feeding The Groundwater Crisis, redux!
What Doesn't Kill You - February 03, 2024 00:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsStraight 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...
The EPA Finally Re-Considers Its Regulations on Effluent From Meat Processing.
What Doesn't Kill You - January 27, 2024 00:27 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsJohn 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...
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 ★★★★ - 26 ratingsChris 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...
Bio-Digesters: The Race Is On!
What Doesn't Kill You - December 08, 2023 01:08 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsBig 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...
The Ethanol Scam
What Doesn't Kill You - November 23, 2023 00:09 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsProfessor 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...
Cancer Road in Minnesota
What Doesn't Kill You - November 10, 2023 19:59 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsJournalist 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 ...
Watering Down Organic Standards
What Doesn't Kill You - October 12, 2023 21:56 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsOrganic 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,...
Farmland for Farmers, Not Farmland for Hedge Funds
What Doesn't Kill You - October 06, 2023 22:48 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsThe 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...
Electric Dog Collars on Cattle? This Rancher Has Ditched the Fence.
What Doesn't Kill You - September 22, 2023 21:01 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsWestern 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, ...
Farm Bill 2023: Get the Skinny
What Doesn't Kill You - September 15, 2023 20:02 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsAward 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...
PFAS! What Are They? Why Are They in Everything Including Us?
What Doesn't Kill You - June 14, 2023 22:19 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsEvery 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...
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 ★★★★ - 26 ratingsIowa 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...
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 ★★★★ - 26 ratingsTom 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...
Ducks and Rice; A Beautiful Synergy
What Doesn't Kill You - May 04, 2023 22:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsVermont 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! ...
The Cocklebur, a New Newsletter From Longtime Ag Reporter Bryce Oates
What Doesn't Kill You - April 13, 2023 00:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsBryce 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...
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 ★★★★ - 26 ratingsScience 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...
Farms Not Feed
What Doesn't Kill You - March 02, 2023 10:14 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsSherri 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 ...
Cage Free Eggs Should Be the Norm. How Is That Working Out?
What Doesn't Kill You - February 09, 2023 05:48 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsVicky 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...
Alt Meat! Is It the Answer? Maybe Not?
What Doesn't Kill You - February 02, 2023 05:39 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsChloe Sorvino, journalist and author of Raw Deal, returns to talk about alt meat and where it's headed. Is it really better? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by becoming a member! What Doesn't Kill You is Powered by Simplec...
Injured and Invisible: Civil Eats Exposes Safety Failures in Animal Agriculture
What Doesn't Kill You - January 26, 2023 18:59 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsJournalist Christina Cooke joins to discuss her lead off piece in a five part series on worker safety in animal agriculture called Injured and Invisible. Today we discuss the plight of workers who have been long left out of OSHA safety regs extended to every other industry. Heritage Radio Netwo...
Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat
What Doesn't Kill You - December 17, 2022 05:01 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsForbes's food writer Chloe Sorvino brings the business in her new book about the corruption of the meat industry. Exploitation, price fixing, pollution and bribery all get a turn in the barrel. Should be a fun discussion between a couple of real meat heads! Photo Courtesy of Nick Rice. Heritag...
BlueTriton, One of the Largest Water Companies in the World, Comes to Talk Sustainability and Addressing Infrastructure
What Doesn't Kill You - December 09, 2022 07:37 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsBlueTriton has gobbled up a lot of water companies, including Nestle's water division. They say they are addressing the kinds of problems we saw in Flint. But what exactly does that mean, and what should consumers expect from a giant water company that makes its profit from selling bottled water...
The White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health
What Doesn't Kill You - October 26, 2022 18:23 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsCivil Eats reporter and former host of the Farm Report, Lisa Held, was at the conference and can give listeners an informed recap of this long overdue conference. From root causes of hunger, to expanding the role of government in nutrition science, and much more, this conference was based on 5 P...
Proposition 12 out of California is having its day in Supreme Court
What Doesn't Kill You - October 19, 2022 19:33 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsOn October 11, the Supreme Court heard a case that will have major implications for animal welfare standards nationwide. The case was brought forward by National Pork Producers Council against the state of California, citing unfair trade practices. Prop 12 guaranteed a better standard of living ...
Pulitzer prize winning author and publisher Art Cullen from the Storm Lake Times weighs in on Iowa politics and why Biden gets no love.
What Doesn't Kill You - October 13, 2022 17:27 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 26 ratingsDespite banner investments in big ag, not to mention the end of the trade wars with China and a host of other farm friendly policies, Biden gets no love. Journalist Art Cullen dissects why farmers love to bite the hand that feeds them, gives us the skinny on governor and senate races, and gets r...
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