

Food Sleuth Radio
Melinda Hemmelgarn
Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners “think beyond their plates,” connect the dots between food, health and agriculture, and find food truth.
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Sep 15, 2016 • 28min
Naomi Oreskes Interview
Guest Naomi Oreskes, Ph.D., co-author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming describes PR strategies for muddying scientific dataMerchants of Doubt

Sep 8, 2016 • 28min
Josh Golin Interview
Guest Josh Golin, Executive Director, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, discusses how marketers target children at home and school, and the challenges parents face raising healthy children in a screen culture.Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Aug 25, 2016 • 28min
Zen Honeycutt Interview
Guest Zen Honeycutt, Founder and Director of Moms Across America describes her organizations mission to protect childrens health, raise awareness about GMOs and related environmental toxins, and empower moms to create healthy communitiesMoms Across America

Aug 18, 2016 • 28min
Carrie Balkcom Interview
Guest Carrie Balkcom, Executive Director for the American Grassfed Association, and Certified Executive Chef, based in Denver, Colorado, defines grassfed standards, and describes how consumers can navigate meat labels in the marketplaceAmerican Grassfed Association

Aug 11, 2016 • 28min
Will Harris Interview
Guest Will Harris, 4th generation cattleman, describes his philosophy on raising livestock humanely, in cooperation with nature, on White Oak Pastures, Bluffton, GeorgiaWhite Oak Pastures

Aug 4, 2016 • 28min
Percy Schmeiser Interview
Guest Percy Schmeiser, canola farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, describes his legal battle with Monsanto following the contamination of his land with genetically engineered (GMO) seedsPercy Schmeiser vs Monsanto

Jul 28, 2016 • 28min
Keeve Nachman Interview
Guest Keeve Nachman, Ph.D., Director of the Center for a Livable Futures Food Production and Public Health Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses his research on the effects of industrial agriculture on rural community health, with a focus on arsenic and antibioticsFood Production and Public Health Program

Jul 21, 2016 • 28min
Peter Menzel Interview
Guest Peter Menzel, award-winning photojournalist and co-author with Faith DAlusio of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects, and What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, describes global consumption, entomophagy, and the images that put a face on food, health and agriculture.Hungry Planet

Jul 14, 2016 • 28min
Anthony Flaccavento Interview
Guest Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer, founder of Appalachian Sustainable Development, national thought-leader on sustainability, and author of Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change, describes a road map for achieving ecologically healthy economiesBottom Up Economy

Jul 7, 2016 • 28min
George Leventhal Interview
Guest George Leventhal, immediate past president of the Montgomery County Council (Maryland), describes the challenges and ultimate success in banning county-wide use of cosmetic pesticides in public and private spacesLandmark Law: The Case for Local Action