Food Sleuth Radio

Guest David Vetter, award-winning organic farmer, Grain Place Foods, Marquette, NE, discusses his philosophy, practices, challenges, and future of farming sustainably.Dreaming of a Vetter World

Guest Sheldon Krimsky, Ph.D., professor of urban and environmental policy and planning at Tufts University and co-editor of The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk, helps us rethink messages about the research and safety of genetically engineered foods.GMO Deception

Guest Naomi Oreskes, Ph.D., co-author of Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming describes PR strategies for muddying scientific dataMerchants of Doubt

Guest Josh Golin, Executive Director, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, discusses how marketers target children at home and school, and the challenges parents face raising healthy children in a screen culture.Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

Guest Zen Honeycutt, Founder and Director of Moms Across America describes her organizations mission to protect childrens health, raise awareness about GMOs and related environmental toxins, and empower moms to create healthy communitiesMoms Across America

Guest Carrie Balkcom, Executive Director for the American Grassfed Association, and Certified Executive Chef, based in Denver, Colorado, defines grassfed standards, and describes how consumers can navigate meat labels in the marketplaceAmerican Grassfed Association

Guest Will Harris, 4th generation cattleman, describes his philosophy on raising livestock humanely, in cooperation with nature, on White Oak Pastures, Bluffton, GeorgiaWhite Oak Pastures

Guest Percy Schmeiser, canola farmer from Saskatchewan, Canada, describes his legal battle with Monsanto following the contamination of his land with genetically engineered (GMO) seedsPercy Schmeiser vs Monsanto

Guest Keeve Nachman, Ph.D., Director of the Center for a Livable Futures Food Production and Public Health Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses his research on the effects of industrial agriculture on rural community health, with a focus on arsenic and antibioticsFood Production and Public Health Program

Guest Peter Menzel, award-winning photojournalist and co-author with Faith DAlusio of Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects, and What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets, describes global consumption, entomophagy, and the images that put a face on food, health and agriculture.Hungry Planet

Guest Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer, founder of Appalachian Sustainable Development, national thought-leader on sustainability, and author of Building a Healthy Economy from the Bottom Up: Harnessing Real-World Experience for Transformative Change, describes a road map for achieving ecologically healthy economiesBottom Up Economy

Guest George Leventhal, immediate past president of the Montgomery County Council (Maryland), describes the challenges and ultimate success in banning county-wide use of cosmetic pesticides in public and private spacesLandmark Law: The Case for Local Action

Guest Jane Grover, DDS, Director of the Council on Access, Prevention and Interprofessional Relations for the American Dental Association discusses solutions to Americas dental care crisisMouth Healthy

Guest Ken Roseboro, editor and publisher of The Organic and Non-GMO Report, describes the steady growth in consumer demand for organic and non-GMO foods, areas of confusion, and GMO labelingThe Organic & Non-GMO Report

Guest Kristin Schafer, co-author of Kids on the Frontline: How Pesticides are Undermining the Health of Rural Children, describes the risks rural children face in agricultural communities across the U.S.Pesticide Action Network (PAN) North America

Guest Garrett Broad, Ph.D., author, More Than Just Food: Food Justice and Community Change, describes the power of media and storytelling in promoting food justice, and the role food programs played in the Black Panther Partys strength.Garrett M. Broad

Guest Tao Orion, author of Beyond the War on Invasive Species: A Permaculture Approach to Ecosystem Restoration helps us rethink invasive species, describes holistic land management, and explores our concept of wilderness.Resilience Permaculture

Guest Laura Lengnick, Ph.D., soil scientist and author of Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate, discusses the Paris climate talks, and necessary shifts in agriculture and policies to set the table of tomorrow. Part IIRegeneration International

Guest Laura Lengnick, Ph.D., soil scientist and author of Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate, explains resilience and challenges of climate change relating to food and farming. Part IClimate Listening Project

Guest Carey Gillam, research director at U.S. Right to Know, and former senior correspondent and investigative reporter for Reuters, describes her experiences covering the food and biotech industries, regulatory agencies and conflicts of interestsUS-RTK

Guest Tod Cooperman, M.D. President and Founder of Consumerlab.com, describes risks and benefits of some of the most popular dietary supplements, plus cocoa powder and dark chocolateConsumerlab

Guest Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, The Nature Principle, and most recently, Vitamin N: 500 Ways to Enrich Your Familys Health & Happiness, explains why its critical to create a nature-rich life; and describes childrens human rights to the natural worldRichard Louv

Guest Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., agricultural economist, describes the nutritional benefits of organic food. Part IIOrganic vs non-organic food

Guest Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., agricultural economist and member of the USDAs AC 21 biotechnology Agricultural Committee, describes safety, environmental impacts and public health consequences of genetically engineered crops and their related herbicidesGlyphosate-based herbicides

Guest Liz Carlisle, Ph.D., author of Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America, and Fellow at the Center for Diversified Farming Systems at U.C. Berkeley, describes the power of cooperative rural communities in creating sustainable food systemsLentil Underground

Guest Lisa McDowell, M.S., R.D., Director of Clinical Nutrition and Wellness at St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, MI, and team dietitian for the Detroit Red Wings, Olympic, collegiate and other pro-athletes, talks about sports and clinical nutritionPriority Health Wellness Blog

Guest Bill Marler, foodborne illness lawyer and expert in food safety, discusses ways to prevent national foodborne illness outbreaks in general, the Chipotle incident in particular, and the six risky foods he never eatsMarler Blog

Guest Kathleen Delate, Ph.D., professor of horticulture at IA State University describes her research on the benefits of organic farming systemsIowa State UniversityOrganic Agriculture Program

Guest Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D. Nutrition advisor for the Vegetarian Resource Group, and nutrition professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, discusses vegetarian diets.The Vegetarian Resource Group

Guest Amanda Hitt, Director of the Government Accountability Project Food Integrity Campaign, describes the role food industry whistleblowers play in stopping abuses to animals, people and the environment.Food Integrity Campaign

Guest Doug Crabtree, M.S., organic heirloom grain and pulse (legumes, lentils, beans, peas) farmer, explains his conservation-based land ethic for sustainable food production, and farm policies he would change to create greater national food security. The United Nations declared 2016 the international year of pulses.International Year of Pulses

Guest Colette Cosner, former Executive Director of the Domestic Fair Trade Association, explains how free trade agreements impact farm workers and immigration, and how we can be more educated citizen eaters.Domestic Fair Trade

Guest Jim Goodman, organic dairy farmer, member of Family Farm Defenders, and the Organic Consumers Association defines food security, food sovereignty, and discusses how the Trans Pacific Trade Partnership benefits global corporations, not family farmers.Trans Pacific Partnership Protest

Guest Dave Seddon, Registered Dietitian, Board President and CEO of the Maine Farm and Sea Cooperative, Americas first farm-institution food service cooperative. Seddon explains the social, economic and public health benefits of cooperative, regional food production and procurement. Maine Farm and Sea Cooperative

Guest Gail Hansen, DVM, MPH, discusses the increasing risk of antibiotic-resistant infections resulting from rising rates of misuse and abuse of antibiotics in animal agriculture on a global scale.Keep Antibiotics Working

Guest Valerie Segrest, M.S., Native American nutritionist, co-author of Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit: Revitalizing Northwest Coastal Indian Food Culture, and coordinator of the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project, discusses how genetically engineered salmon violate tribal treaty rights and pose a risk to future generations.Campaign for GE-Free Seafood

Guest Robert Shetterly, artist and founder of the Americans Who Tell the Truth project, explains his humanitarian work: painting portraits and telling the stories of exemplary citizens who have promoted social and environmental justiceAmericans Who Tell the Truth

Guest Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D. Award-winning entomologist discusses his research on neonicotinoid pesticides, their pervasive use, harmful effects, and why he left his USDA lab to start an independent research and education farm. (Part 2)Blue Dasher Farm

Guest Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D., Agroecologist and Entomologist, discusses his 20-years of research on bugs, pesticides, and why he left his USDA lab to start an independent research farm that focuses on producing healthier food in natures image. (Part I)Blue Dasher Farm

Guest Representative Louise Slaughter, M.S., Congresswoman, 25th District New York State discusses her efforts to pass legislation -- the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act -- that would prohibit the dangerous use of routine antibitoics on industrial farms. Where are the roadblocks, and what can consumers do to protect our food, drugs and health?Representative Louise Slaughter

Guest Aimee Code, M.S., Pesticide Program Director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, will discuss the widespread use, and unintended consequences of neonicotinoid pesticidesXerces Society

Guest Kelay Trentham, R.D., oncology dietitian discusses the role medical cannabis can play in relieving cancer treatment side-effects, challenges of treatment with marijuana, plus why red and processed meats increase cancer riskOncology Nutrition

Guest Catherine Badgley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at U. of MI defines biodiversity, why it is essential for survival and how we might drive more sustainable food systemsLSA EEB

Guest Bruce Hemming, Ph.D. President and CEO of Microbe Inotech Laboratories, Inc., St. Louis, MO, describes how glyphosate' s metal chelating actions can affect our gut microorganismsMICROBE INOTECH LABS

Guest Nicolette Hahn Niman, author, Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production, describes her manifesto of an environmental lawyer and vegetarian turned cattle rancher.Nicolette Hahn Niman

Guest Stacia Clinton, R.D., Regional Direcctor, Health Care Without Harm Healthy Food in Health Care Program, and Chair of the Clinician Champions in Comprehensive Antibiotic Stewardship, explains the high cost of antibiotic resistance, and how hospital infections can be traced to farming practicesHealthy Food in Health Care

Guest Dana Gunders, Staff Scientist, National Resources Defense Council and author of the Waste Free Kitchen Handbook, discusses how to reduce food waste, plus recpe ideas for leftoversWaste Free Kitchen Handbook

Guest David Mortensen, Ph.D., Professor of Weed Ecology, Penn State U., explains unintended consequences of GMO crops engineered to resist herbicides, how weeds develop herbicide resistance, and alternatives to herbicidesNatural Resources Defense Council

Guest Richard Oswald, 5th generation family farmer, journalist (Progressive Farmer, Daily Yonder), President, Missouri Farmers' Union and director for Organization for Competitive Markets and Board member, National Farmers\\\' Union, discusses consolidation in farming and agricultural legislation affecting U.S. food securityOrganization for Competitive Markets

Guest Nancy Zucker, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Eating Disorders, Duke University Medical Center, discusses her research on picky eaters, and explains what is typical, what is not and whyDuke Center for Eating Disorders