Unconfined

Episode 3 2 , in which five panelists discuss the potential of regenerative agriculture and biological models to help address climate change.      

Episode 31 of  Unconfined , in which, M anaging Attorney of the Antimonopoly Counsel, Basel Musharbash makes the case that the companies that dominate our food and agriculture system have gotten too big and powerful.   

Episode 30 of Unconfined, in which journalist Ted Genoways recounts the unlikely story of how some of the world's most vulnerable people took on a giant meatpacking company in Greeley, Colorado.   

Episode 2 9 of Unconfined , in which poultry rancher Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin reflects on the intersection of the food system and federal immigration enforcement .     

Episode 2 8 of Unconfined , in which journalist Tom Philpott reflects on a story he wrote about cancer rates in Iowa .    

Episode 2 7  of  Unconfined , in which a CLF dietary maven and a CLF policy wonk deliver the goods on RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines       

In this episode of Unconfined , Brent Kim breaks down the pros (meh) and cons (many) of manure digesters and the expanding biogas industry, which has been billed as a climate solution , and to which Brent says, Nah .        

In this episode of Unconfined, author  Mariah Blake  and former organic farmer Adam Nordell tell the dark tale of how the highly toxic, long-lived class of chemicals called PFAS made their way from governme nt labs to corporate factories to a farm near you—and the happier story of how ordinary people are organizing to minimize the harm from this mess.  

In this episode of Unconfined , r eporter Helena Bottemiller Evich and Theodore Ross  of the Food and Environment Reporting Networ k, co-hosts of Forked podcast, tease out the contradictions and paradoxes of food policy in the age of Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.      

In this episode of Unconfined , Leo Horrigan tells us about his new book and all the ways we could us e microbes to regenerate healthy soil , sink carbon, and grow more nutritious crops.  

In this episode of Unconfined , Michelle Hughes despairs over federal funding freezes for land - access programs and rebounds with an optimistic vision for the long-term future in which young farmers regenerate not only soil, but the industry as a whole .  

In this episode of Unconfined, author Michael Grunwald and host Tom Philpott grapple with the future of food in a warming world.  

In this episode of Unconfined , author Brea Baker teases out the 20 th century's great dispossession of Black farmers, and reports on a budding revival of African-American agrarianism.  

In this episode of Unconfined , James Skeet waxes philosophical on European-style, settler-oriented, colonialism-informed agriculture and re-imagines an agricultural practice that relies instead on indigenous regenerative intelligence. 

In this episode of Unconfined , author Austin Frerick discusses the barons who dominate US food production, including an Iowa farm couple who spun enormous, manure-spewing hog operations into a vast fortune.   

In this episode of Unconfined , Marion Nestle reveals the food industry's recipe for cooking up academic nutrition research that serves its interests—not yours.    

In this episode of   Unconfined , two leading experts , Meghan Davis and Erin Sorrell , take us from farm ing communities to policy circles to explain how bird flu spreads, who is at risk, and what we can do to slow this outbreak.  

In this episode of Unconfined , three experts help us sort through the new administration's agenda and try to figure out what it all might mean for food policy.  Claire Kelloway , program manager for fair food and farming systems at the Open Markets Institute; and primary writer of  Food & Power , a newsletter covering corporate consolidation of agriculture markets.  Mike Lavender , policy directo...

In this episode of Unconfined , World Food Prize winner Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted explains how biodiversity, local resources, and saying "no" to pricy pesticides helped cut childhood hunger in Bangladesh      

In this episode of Unconfined , Dave Love explains oyster farming , why it's impossible to industrialize it, and how oysters offer benefits ranging from amino acids to storm surge buffers .  

In this episode of Unconfined , veteran journalists Douglas Frantz and Catharine Collins expose what lies beneath those rosy salmon filets that grace our supermarket seafood cases .   

In this episode of Unconfined , Philip Loring discusses practical ways for fishers, grocers, and consumers to contribute to the repair and restoration of global fisheries.  

    In this episode of Unconfined , author and life-long fisherman Paul Greenberg makes the case for eating more wild-caught U.S. seafood — and much less factory-farmed shrim p and salmon from abroad.  

In this episode of Unconfined , Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin tells us about Tree Range Farms, a poultry ecosystem alternative to the industrial food animal production model that injures workers and degrades the environment. Find out how his farmers create chicken heaven .      

In this episode of Unconfined , the formidable husband-and-wife team of David Montgomery and Anne Biklé draw on their deep experience as environmental scientists, gardeners, and celebrated book authors to show that regenerative farming isn't some crunchy fad or marketing jargon to be seized by pesticide purveyors. Rather, it might hold the key to keeping our farms humming as the climate warms and...