Rethink Food, Saving Food From Landfill
Founder and CEO Matt Jozwiak of Rethink Food , joins to discuss how he works with a variety of partners to re-purpose discarded food into wh...
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What Doesn't Kill You
Food production is a curious business. It seems so straightforward, and yet it is so nuanced, layered, complex, and political. What Doesn’t Kill You; Food Industry Insights endeavors to iden...
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Herbicide Drift and Its Impacts
Prairie Rivers Network has published the results of a 6 year study on the impacts of herbicide drift in Illinois, and its not a good picture...
Courts Are Beginning to Address Water Quality Issues in Farm Belt
Journalist Keith Schneider reports on some groundbreaking cases in Michigan and in Federal Court addressing the pollution caused by CAFOs an...
What Technologies Are Available for Cleaning up PFAS?
Dr. Thomas Boving , Chair of The Department of Geosciences joins to discuss what and how we can address the contaminations of our waterways,...
Why Isn’t the USDA Taking Bird Flu More Seriously?
Avian Influenza, AKA bird flu is just a few mutations away from becomimg a much bigger deal for humans. With the pandemic just in the rear v...
Protecting Our Streams, Protect Our Water Supply
John Rumpler, Clean Water Director of Environment America; Research and Policy Center , explains how protecting our "ephemera" streams has a...
Wisconsons Water Is Laden With PFAS, Republicans Want to Give the Polluters Immunity
Erik Kanter, President of Clean Wisconsin joins to explain how republicans are withholding funds for clean up until the legislature passes a...
Who Owns Our Water? Who Is Getting to Sell It? Gambling in Water Futures Is Real.
New legislation introduced by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Ro Khanna would put the kybosh on trading in water futures. Will i...
Everything You Need to Know about Horseshoe Crabs!
Will Harlan from the Center for Biological Diversity joins to talk about the keystone species horseshoe crabs, a population that is crashing...
Antibiotic Resistance Continues Apace, H1N1 Jumps Species! WTH???
Science writer Maryn McKenna , author of Superbug and Big Chicken , joins to discuss the feeble attempts to rein in antibiotic use in animal...
Cage Free Laying Goes Mainstream! Only 10% in 2014, Now Edging Over 40%
The Humane League , an advocacy organization seminal to both encouraging the egg industry to improve its conditions for laying hens, but als...
Just How Much Money Are We Actually Wasting in Our Efforts to Remediate Our Polluted Waterways Like the Gulf of Mexico or the Chesapeake?
According to journalist Keith Schneider whose prize winning series Toxic Terrain has explored many of the ills associated with our style of...
Just How Much DOES Industry Influence Science at the University Level? Turns Out, Quite a Bit.
Professors Viveca Morris and Jennifer Jacquet dug into how the livestock industry has co-opted certain university experts to minimize the im...
Lets Review the Farm Bill With Tom Philpott
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...
Who Is Minding Our Groundwater?
Professor Upmanu Lall , director of the Water Institute at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University gives...
Barons! You Thought the Age of the Robber Baron Was Over? Guess Again!
Author Austin Frerick joins the show to talk about his new book: Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food System . An awes...
Pushing Back on the Poultry Industry Is Not for the Faint of Heart.
For at least 20 years, the burgeoning poultry industry has been spreading the waste litter from their barns across one particular watershed...
Farm Belt States Are Getting Serious About Agro-Chem and Cancer
Accross the farm belt, cancer cases are spiking, and states are getting serious about tracking and providing guidelines for exposure to agro...
How the American Diet is Feeding The Groundwater Crisis, redux!
Straight outta the NY Times, a groundbreaking article by journalists Christopher Flavelle and Somini Sengupta shows the highway between mcNu...
The EPA Finally Re-Considers Its Regulations on Effluent From Meat Processing.
John Rumpler , Clean Water DIrector and lead attorney for Environment America , joins to talk about the long overdue revision of regulations...