What Doesn't Kill You

This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Tim Fitzgerald, director of the Impact Division of Environmental Defense Fund’s Fishery Solutions Center – leading its global programs on training, seafood markets, supply chain engagement and fisheries finance. Tim also serves on the boards of Ecofish LLC and GulfWild, and is an advisor to Fair Trade USA, the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions.

CEO Andrew Dahl of Zivo BioScience joins Katy to discuss the applications and virtues of microalgae as a feedstuff for livestock and humans. Algae has the potential to take a leading role in animal nutrition, taking the pressure off of arable land to grow corn and soy for feed. Will this be the game changer in meat production we need if we are going to keep up with demand?

In a recent article for Forbes magazine, journalist Nancy Huehengarth parses the divides within the progressive food movement between those that want immediate and complete change and those who work within the channels to effect change from within. Later she discusses the incoming administration and the fight for a food policy.

This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined in studio Sari Kamin. Also a host at Heritage Radio Network, today Sari is sitting on the guest's chair as she chats with Katy about election fake news, Donald Trump, Women's March, and more. Don't forget to check out Sari's The Morning After.

This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Molly Anderson. Anderson is part of the Food Studies program at Middlebury College in Vermont, where she teaches about hunger and food security, fixing food systems, and sustainability. She is especially interested in multi-actor collaborations for sustainable food systems, sustainability metrics and assessment, food system resilience, human rights in the food system, food security and the right to food in the U.S. and other industrialized countries, and the transition to a post-petroleum food economy.

On the season premiere of What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Ted Genoways, award-winning writer and editor, and author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, a finalist for the James Beard Foundation Award for Writing and Literature. Tune in to hear them discuss the failings of the media throughout the recent election cycle, the dangers of forcing voter demographics to conform to stereotypes, the proliferation of anti-intellectualism, and the vital importance of grain commodities to this country and its economy, and more!

What is a sustainable food system? Former undersecretary of the USDA, Kathleen Merrigan, Executive Director of Sustainability at George Washington University talks about what's possible, what's happening and what to hope for. At George Washington University, Dr. Merrigan leads the GW Sustainability Collaborative, GW Food Institute, and serves as Professor of Public Policy. She serves as a Co-Chair for AGree, Board Director for the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture and FoodCorps, a member of the Harvard Pilgrim Healthy Food Fund Advisory Committee, Senior Advisor at the Kendall Foundation, and steering committee member of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors of the National Council for Science and the Environment and the United Nations Environment Programme led initiative TEEB for Agriculture & Food. Recognizing the history and scope of her work, Time Magazine named Kathleen among the “100 most influential people in the world” in 2010.

This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Christopher Leonard, a former national business reporter for the Associated Press and author of The Meat Racket: The Secret Takeover of America’s Food Business. His work has appeared in Fortune, Bloomberg, Businessweek, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal. He is a Schmidt Family Foundation fellow with The New America Foundation, a nonpartisan public policy institute in Washington, DC. He is currently writing his second book, a profile of Koch Industries.

This week on What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer brings us an intriguing phone conversation with Baylen J. Linnekin, food lawyer and an adjunct professor at George Mason University Law School, where he developed and teaches Food Law & Policy. His new book, Biting the Hands that Feed Us, calls for less food regulations in our school lunch program, addressing four major areas where he believes government interference is getting in the way.

This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined by Jonathan Gelbard, lead scientist at Grasslands Alliance and conservation scientist and sustainable agriculture specialist at Conservation Value, which serves clients interested in developing and implementing programs that benefit our environment, climate and economy alike. In partnership with other conservation entities, Dr. Gelbard’s work for Grasslands Alliance and Conservation Value focuses devising innovative programs for distinguishing the livestock producers who demonstrate verifiably good ranch and farm management, and rewarding them with economically valuable benefits.