What Doesn't Kill You
Food production is a curious business; it's nuanced, layered, complex, and political. In What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer endeavors to identify and explain some of the key issues in our food system through interviews with journalists, authors, scientists, activists, and industry experts. Water rights, meat and agricultural production, food waste, labor issues, and new technologies are just some of the topics explored so we can better understand how to feed the future.
Latest episodes
Oct 7, 2019 • 46min
Episode 294: What's the Beef? Cattlemen push back on indus
Lia Biondo from the US Cattlemen's Association takes us through the troubles for ranchers and feeders.What Doesn't Kill You is powered by Simplecast.
Oct 1, 2019 • 34min
Episode 293: Economic Research Service gives a snapshot of farm income and well being
How are farmers doing financially in the wake of the trade wars and historically low crop prices. The ERS, or Economic Research Service agency within the USDA, (yes that agency, now located in Kansas City) keeps tabs on those numbers and what they mean to the agricultural community.What Doesn't Kill You is powered by Simplecast.
Sep 23, 2019 • 39min
Episode 292: Rules Change in Pork Inspection
Amanda Hitt from the Government Accountability Project gives a long view perspective on the new rules in pork inspection. What Doesn't Kill You is powered by Simplecast.
Sep 16, 2019 • 34min
Episode 291: Price Fixing in Poultry??? Really?
FERN Reporter Leah Douglas discusses a recent article on how the poultry industry has been colluding for years on price fixing and wages.
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Sep 9, 2019 • 44min
Episode 290: The Labor of Lunch
Author Jennifer Gaddis discusses her new book about The National School Lunch Program.
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Jun 24, 2019 • 40min
Episode 289: Turning a silk purse from a sow's ear, or in this case from human urine to low cost fertilizer
The Rich Earth Institute is pioneering technology to capture and convert human urine into no/low cost fertilizer for agriculture. What will it take to make it universal?
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Jun 18, 2019 • 44min
Episode 288: Agroforestry, an ancient concept with future implications
New interest in an ancient agricultural technnique brought together several thousand educators, scientists, and activists at a conference in France. With Erik Hoffner of Mongabay.com.
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Jun 3, 2019 • 39min
Episode 287: Congressional Committees acknowledge climate change when it comes to Agriculture, elsewhere, not so much.
Alyssa Charney from NSAC reports on recent congressional committee meetings acknowledging the devastating impacts of climate change on farmers. Lip service paid to building resiliency. The question is, will they do anything about it.?
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May 20, 2019 • 42min
Episode 286: Why is Chobani bailing out a school district in Rhode Island?
Margaret Read a food policy consultant for school districts explains why this national story about school lunch debt is a pretty common occurrence.
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May 13, 2019 • 45min
Episode 285: Why is the USDA attacking the Economic Research Service?
Today we talk with Bryce Oates of the Daily Yonder. If you have been paying attention, there has been a fair amount of new about the proposed relocation of the ERS and NIFA, two agencies within the USDA that deal with farming and grants. Moving the agencies from their DC locations keeps them away from legislators who need their information. More alarming still is a new rule that the ERA cannot publish reports without being given an ok by USDA head, and will carry a caveat that says they are not official!
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