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 Alli...

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? See Privacy Policy at ht...

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. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy...

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 . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https:...

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 resili...

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 demograp...

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...

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 Foundati...

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 bel...

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. Gelba...

This week on  What Doesn't Kill You , Chef Evan Mallett brings an activist sensibility to cooking with his emphasis on biodiversity and promotion of local products. His new book Black Trumpet: A Chef’s Journey Through Eight New England Seasons was published last month by Chelsea Green Publishing. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

On this Election Eve edition of What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is joined in the studio by Heritage Radio Network's current and soon-to-be executive director, Erin Fairbanks and Caity Moseman Wadler! Tune in to hear them discuss ballot initiatives, right-to-farm laws, U.S. food policies, and the varying complexities of the progressive food movement as a whole. See Privacy Policy at https...

This week on What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is joined on the line by Anna Lappé, an author and educator known for her work as an expert on food systems and as a sustainable food advocate. A recipient of the James Beard Leadership Award, Anna is the co-author or author of three books and the contributing author to more than a dozen others. Anna’s most recent book, Diet for a Hot Planet:...

This week on What Doesn't Kill You , host Katy Keiffer is joined by John Ikerd, a visionary scholar and author who writes and speaks on issues related to sustainability with an emphasis on economics and agriculture. Dr. Ikerd's work on sustainable farming and agricultural economics has galvanized and informed the progressive food movement. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califo...

Journalist David Dayen offers insights into the trade agreements being negotiated by the Obama Administration right now. The negotiations are conducted in secret, and are essentially deals worked out between big industry players. The impact of these agreements on our food system could be profound. Tune in to learn how and why. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy...

Today on What Doesn't Kill You, host Katy Keiffer tells us about Joys & Trump-centric Sorrows before sharing her interview with Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, a Democrat representing Maine's 1st Congressional District. Pingree weighs in on food policy from organic farming to France's recent zero-food-waste law. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht...

Newly revealed documents show how the sugar industry skewed public perception toward fat and away from sugar as the source of obesity and health problems. Marion Nestle, currently writing a new book on the subject will show how they developed this campaign and ran with it over the course of decades. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/...

This week on What Doesn't Kill You , Arlin Wasserman shows how reliance on corn relates to risk management and financial results in the food industry which has a direct impact on consumers in many ways. Arlin Wasserman is a partner at Changing Tastes, founding our company in 2003. He is also a fellow at the Aspen Institute and a past recipient of a Food and Society Policy Fellowship, awarded by th...

Join Dr. Ricardo Salvador, Food Policy Director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, as he parses out what food policy change means, where to start, and how politicians and consumers have responded to the Plate of the Union initiative. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

Today on What Doesn’t Kill You, Katy Keiffer speaks with Annie Speicher and Matt Wechsler, the two filmmakers behind Hourglass Films and a new documentary. Sustainable tells the story of a family farmer in Illinois who fought to keep a sustainable farming model in the midst of transformation in America’s heartland. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at ht...

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 nati...

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...

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 th...

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:...