Food Sleuth Radio

Guest Jennifer Hartle, PhD., M.H.S., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Standford University School of Medicine, and environmental health scientist talks about Bisphenol-A (BPA), the estrogen-mimicking compound that leaches out of plastics, food and beverage cans, and found in school lunchBPA Guide

Guest Suzanne Dixon, M.P.H., M.S., R.D., dietitian with expertise in nutrition and chronic disease prevention describes the most important steps we can take to improve our diets. Tune in for a big picture look at nutrition scienceNo Nutrition Fear

Guest Lenore Arab, Ph.D. Nutritional epidemiologist, UCLA, explains how fruits, vegetables and unique components of tea can help protect our healthLenore Arab

Guest Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States discusses his organizations role in protecting animal welfare, our natural kinship with animals, and ways we can see through corporate propaganda about industrial farmsHumane Society of the United States

Guest Jahi Chappel, Ph.D. Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, talks about Deepening Food Democracy, the report he co-authoredDeepening Food Democracy

Guest Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer and entrepreneur describes his local foods cost calculator to increase the the use of locally raised food in restaurants and food serviceSCALE

Guest Stephen Ritz, South Bronx educator featured in TEDx Manhattan, one of the top 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize describes the Green Bronx Machine and how growing vegetables in school changed the lives of his students in one of the poorest school districts in the countryGreen Bronx Machine 

Guest Anita Poeppel, Illinois farmer, speaks about the hazards of pesticide drift, and the Spray Drift Education Network, created to help report, monitor and protect rural families, crops and CSA customers who want pesticide-free foodSpray Drift Education Network

Guest Sanjay Rawal, director, Food Chains, discusses his documentary film that sheds light on past and present farm worker conditions with hope and actions for justiceFood Chain$

Guest Margaret Reeves, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and advocate at the Pesticide Action Network describes the risks farmworkers face from pesticide exposure and the new Equitable Farm InitiativeEFI