Founder and CEO Matt Jozwiak of Rethink Food, joins to discuss how he works with a variety of partners to re-purpose discarded food into wholesome, culturally appropriate meals for the underserved.

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Prairie Rivers Network has published the results of a 6 year study on the impacts of herbicide drift in Illinois, and its not a good picture. Herbicide drift isn't confined to agricultural fields. They float right into our backyards, schoolyards, parks, and natural spaces. Herbicide drift is having a major impact on trees and naturally occurring plant species, not to mention humans. Kim Erndt-Pitcher, Director of Ecolocgical halth at Prairie Rivers Network explains whats in that report, and why we should all be concerned. It's not just happening in Illinois.

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The Humane League, an advocacy organization seminal to both encouraging the egg industry to improve its conditions for laying hens, but also to hold restaurants accountable when they don't keep their promises to use only cage free eggs. Kelly Myers, Director of Corporate Engagement joins to discuss this sea change, and the new Humane League Eggspose, that busts the bad actors who promise one thing, and do another.

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Leah Douglas updates her map of COVID-19 in food workers, and discusses the lack of oversight on "depopulation" and its impacts on the environment.

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Jessica Mayhew and Maggie LePrise offer their thoughts on how to make dairy work better, especially in RI.

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The Interim Director of OCM, Ben Gotschall, talks about a moratorium on beef imports, consolidation in the industry, and improving the markets for American producers. 

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Policy Director for NSAC, Dr. Eric Deeble joins to discuss the USDA program, the biggest direct payment program to farmers  in history, what works, and what doesn't.

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Leah Douglas from the FERN returns to discuss a couple of her recent stories, including jaw-dropping stats on COVID-19 in meatpacking towns and a scary executive order opening the path toward FinFish aquaculture in open seas.

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Mike Callicrate, a Colorado rancher and activist joins to talk about the beef industry and COVID-19.

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Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams joins the show to talk about improving the diet and food system for Brooklyn Residents.

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Award-winning science writer Maryn McKenna joins the conversation to talk about the rumors around factory farming and COVID-19, vaccines, mutations, and food safety.

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Veteran Agricultural reporter Leah Douglas joins today to talk about how the supply chain is doing and how smaller farms/independent fishermen are managing.

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Derek Wagner owns two farm-to-table restaurants in Providence, RI. Keeping his family, his staff, and his purveyors going is the Sisyphean task he faces.

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According to journalist Keith Schneider whose prize winning series Toxic Terrain has explored many of the ills associated with our style of agriculture, "the voluntary conservation practices promoted by federal and state governments, and Big Ag, are the costliest and least effective pollution prevention strategy ever devised. In the Mississippi Basin $30 billion spent since 1997 by the federal and state governments."

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Sonia and Pedro own a small restaurant in one of the last remaining city markets in Lisbon. Food traditions, preparations, supermarket encroachment and generational attitudes are discussed.

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Kay Cornelius, and Elle Gadient give an overview of the partnership between Niman Ranch and Chipotle to extend money in scholarship and in stocking new farmers, a relatively rare phenomenon in which corporations are building the future through investing in young farmers now.

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Caitlin Arnold is National Regional Manager for the National Young Farmers Coalition. She is joined by Alicia Harvie from Farm Aid to discuss the challenges to new and beginning farmers

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Leah Douglas illustrates the divisions in ag communities between pro and con CAFOs through a story for the Food and Environment Reporting Network.

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Crispin Hernandez came up from Mexico to work in an upstate NY dairy with 10,000 cows. In 3 years he was transformed into an activist, participating in a successful lawsuit against the industry with the help of Rebecca Fuentes and Workers Center of Central New York, and author of Milked.

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NYT published a gagging expose of animal cruelty in 2015 at the behest of veterinarian and research scientist Jim Keen. In this episode he describes what they were doing and how we, the taxpayers, were funding it. 

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What is NESAWG and why should you go to their conference. Tracy Lerman, Director of NESAWG and Angela Davis Angela C. Davis, Director, Division of Food & Nutrition for NJ health and Human Services Dept, explain what work they are doing to promote a better food system in the Northeast.

Join Heritage Radio Network on Monday, November 11th, for a raucous feast to toast a decade of food radio. Our tenth anniversary bacchanal is a rare gathering of your favorite chefs, mixologists, storytellers, thought leaders, and culinary masterminds. We’ll salute the inductees of the newly minted HRN Hall of Fame, who embody our mission to further equity, sustainability, and deliciousness. Explore the beautiful Palm House and Yellow Magnolia Café, taste and imbibe to your heart’s content, and bid on once-in-a-lifetime experiences and tasty gifts for any budget at our silent auction. Tickets available now at heritageradionetwork.org/gala.

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Leah Garces joins the show to talk about her new book Grilled: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry.

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ILSI is a secretive lobbying group that is deployed by major food companies to push their agenda in legislative matters.

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Arizona is a high producing agricultural state despite its desert conditions, and it relies obviously on water from far away. Trouble is, it competes with other states for that same water. How to resolve this is the subject of this episode.
 

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Professors Viveca Morris and Jennifer Jacquet dug into how the livestock industry has co-opted certain university experts to minimize the impact of findings on climate change related to industrialized animal agriculture. Their findings have been published in a new paper detailing just how successful meat companies have been in skewing perceptions of climage change, altering emission targets, and making sure the industry remains the unregulated monster it is. Prepare to be outraged.

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Lia Biondo from the US Cattlemen's Association takes us through the troubles for ranchers and feeders.

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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.

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Amanda Hitt from the Government Accountability Project gives a long view perspective on the new rules in pork inspection. 

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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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Author Jennifer Gaddis discusses her new book about The National School Lunch Program.

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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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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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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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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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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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Veteran agricultural journalist Tom Philpott joins to talk about what is and isn't in the newest iteration of the Farm Bill. Despite all the extra funds from the Investment Recovery Act, and all the information we now have about climate disruption, and other impacts on agriculture, we seem to be marching toward the same old same old...

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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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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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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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Chris Jones returns to the show to talk about hog waste and its impact on water quality

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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Professor Upmanu Lall, director of the Water Institute at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory at Arizona State University gives us the details on how we map, model, and distribute our dwindling groundwater supplies.

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Amanda Hitt, Director of the Food Integrity Campaign at the Government Accountability Project takes listeners through a lawsuit the organization has filed on behalf of a Pilgrims Pride poultry grower. If he succeeds, how will this change the game for integrators and contractors?

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Believe it or not, McDonalds has been a forward thinking corporation since the 90's with regard to sustainability. Author and former CSR officer Bob Langert tells the story

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Host Katy Keiffer talks past and future shows.

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