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
May 6, 2019 • 38min
Episode 284: RTE Ancient Grains
Janet Holt saw a niche for low gluten, ancient and heirloom grains already cooked. She started RTE Cuisine and has some lessons to impart to anyone who thinks they have a great idea!
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Apr 15, 2019 • 48min
Episode 283: The Heartland Forum with Art Cullen
Art Cullen, the Pulitzer Prize winning editor of Iowa's Storm Lake Times joins the show today to talk about the Democratic candidates whose panel he moderated recently at the Heartland Forum.
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Apr 8, 2019 • 42min
Episode 282: Democratic candidates swarmed the Family Farmers Rally in Iowa. What did they have to say?
FERN reporter Leah Douglas attended the Family Farmers Rally in Storm City Iowa where 5 democrats tried to explain that they have a recipe to fix american agriculture. At least they are talking about it!
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Apr 1, 2019 • 46min
Episode 281: Iowa's Real Population; it ain't all human
Chris Jones returns to the show to talk about hog waste and its impact on water quality
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Mar 25, 2019 • 39min
Episode 280: Activists in Iowa push back on CAFOS
Meet Diane Rosenberg, an Iowa citizen who does more than her fair share in helping communities stave off the expansion of animal agriculture.
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Mar 11, 2019 • 51min
Episode 279: Cape Fear is really scary
Larry Cahoon, PHD professor of Biology and Marine Biology takes us through the impacts of chemical dumping in the Cape Fear River in North Carolina
Photo courtesy of Larry Cahoon.
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Feb 25, 2019 • 37min
Episode 278: Six months post Florence, how are North Carolina waterways managing their cleanup
Rick Dove, Senior Advisor to the Waterkeeper Alliance and Riverkeeper for the Neuse River comes back to describe the state response to the disastrous flooding caused by Hurricane Florence.
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Feb 18, 2019 • 42min
Episode 277: Building a New Generation of New York Farmers
Samantha Levy, regional policy manager for New York State joins Katy to talk about a new initiative called Farmland for a New Generation New York that works to bring access to land and knowledge to aspiring young farmers through an extensive list of partnerships throughout New York State.
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Feb 11, 2019 • 38min
Episode 276: How the Spaniards are pushing back against Industrial Meat
David Sanchez Carpio is the Spanish liaison to Food and Water Watch. In this episode he describes how rural communities push back against industrial animal ag with the help of NGOS like FWW
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Jan 28, 2019 • 50min
Episode 275: Pork industry is growing by leaps and bounds in hog heavy Spain. What are activists doing about it?
Patricia de Rada from Compassion in World Farming, and Alberto Diez from Anda discuss how the industry is running roughshod over rural communities and traditional methods to ramp up their export business.
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