This week on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer welcomes Mike Schade of Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families. Schade spearheads the Mind the Store campaign which aims to work with the nation's leading retailers on creating comprehensive chemicals policy. For the previous eight years, Mike was the Markets Campaign Coordinator with the Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ), a national environmental health organization where he led national campaigns to phase out PVC plastic, phthalates, BPA and dioxin. Prior to CHEJ, he was the Western New York Director of Citizens’ Environmental Coalition. Ethisphere Magazine listed Mike as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics for 2007 and the PVC Campaign received two awards from the Business Ethics Network.

Learn about the incredible operation at Shelburne Farms this week on What Doesn't Kill You. Shelburne Farms is a nonprofit organization educating for a sustainable future. That means learning that links knowledge, inquiry, and action to help students build a healthy future for their communities and the planet. Their home campus is a 1,400-acre working farm, forest, and National Historic Landmark.

Katy Keiffer is once again joined by friend of the show, Tom Philpott on a new episode of What Doesn't Kill You. They chat about the Presidential race, the National Food Policy for the 21st Century, and the Plate of the Union initiative that has fallen flat despite the talent behind it. Tom Philpott is the food and agriculture reporter for Mother Jones. Prior to that he was at Grist for five years. His work on food politics has appeared in Newsweek, Gastronomica, and the Guardian. He is also a host on the new podcast The Secret Ingredient with Raj Patel and Rebecca McInroy, as well as The Bite, a podcast developed for Mother Jones Magazine.

The Center for a Livable Future has a Food System Policy Program. What is it? Find out this week on What Doesn't Kill You. Katy Keiffer is joined by Bob Martin, currently the director of Food System Policy at the Center for a Livable Future. Bob served as Executive Director of the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which was housed at the Center for a Livable Future. Prior to that appointment, Bob worked for nearly 30 years in public policy at the state and federal level.

This week's guest on What Doesn't Kill You hiked 1,700 miles along the proposed Keystone XL route. Yes, actually! Ken Ilgunas started in Denver, hitchhiked across the Canadian border, took a flight over the Tar Sands of Alberta, and commenced his walk in Hardisty, AB, the northern terminus of the soon-to-be pipeline. The journey was documented in the recently published "Trespassing Across America: One Man's Epic, Never-Done-Before (and Sort of Illegal) Hike Across the Heartland". He and Katy chat about the long journey, the trials and tribulations Ken experienced along the way and the realities facing the areas along this route.

Katy Keiffer is flying solo today on What Doesn't Kill You and she's got plenty to say. First, she recaps some news - from legal pot to cheese in cat food. Later, she talks about the industrial food industry at large and identifies some of the worst and best aspects of the current system we have. Tune in for some sharp insights and timely topics!

Tune into a brand new episode of What Doesn't Kill You as Katy Keiffer is joined by Sandy McLeod, director of Seeds of Time. Seeds of Time is a documentary about preserving our agricultural heritage, featuring Dr. Cary Fowler, a pioneer in identifying the global threat to food security posed by losing seed diversity.

Will the Trans-Pacific Partnership bring to livestock agriculture? Listen to a couple of fire-breathing ranchers and activists duke it out on a brand new episode of What Doesn’t Kill You. Host Katy Keiffer is joined by Bill Bullard of R-Calf and Steve Dittmar of AgFreedom.org. Things get very heated – this is a must listen for anybody following the cattle industry.

On this week's episode of What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer is joined in the studio by Andrew F. Smith, a writer and lecturer on food and culinary history. Andrew serves as the general editor for the Edible Series, published by Reaktion Press, and teaches Food Studies at the New School University in New York. He is also the author of the new book Fast Food: The Good, the Bad and the Hungry. Tune in as they discuss why the fast food industry has been so successful, and the myriad consequences that have occurred as a result.

On this week’s episode of What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy welcomes Daisy Freund and Robert Hensley of the ASPCA to discuss North Carolina’s “Anti-Sunshine” Law. A coalition of animal protection, consumer rights, food safety, and whistleblower protection organizations recently filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the law, which is designed to deter whistleblowers and undercover investigators from publicizing information about corporate misconduct. Under the law, organizations and journalists who conduct undercover investigations, and individuals who expose improper or criminal conduct by North Carolina employers, are susceptible to lawsuits and substantial damages if they make such evidence available to the public or the press. The law is part of a growing number of so-called “ag-gag laws” which are pushed by lobbyists for corporate agriculture companies, in an attempt to escape scrutiny over unsafe practices and animal abuses by threatening liability for those who expose these improper and, in many cases, illegal practices. “The public wants to see justice served when these kinds of abuses are documented, they don’t want to hear about, well, technically because we managed to get away with almost no regulation, that’s perfectly legal to do that to an animal – but that’s not the point.” [25:00] – Daisy Freund