Food Sleuth Radio

Guest Laura Batcha, CEO and Executive Director of the Organic Trade Association, defines organic, busts myths, and explains the unique benefits of organic farming and food productionOrganic Trade Association

Guest Routt Reigart, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, co-editor of the 6th Edition of the EPA Recognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings, and Father of the Childrens Environmental Health Movement, discusses the impact of pesticides on childrens healthRecognition and Management of Pesticide Poisonings

Guest JoAnne Berkenkamp, M.S., Senior Advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Food and Agriculture Program discusses food waste.NDRC

Guest Robert McChesney, Ph.D., Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and cofounder, Free Press, discusses media, money and politics as it influences food and farming choices. The need for media literacy has never been greaterRobert W. McChesney

Guest Douglas Gayeton, award-winning multi-media artist and mastermind behind the Lexicon of Sustainability, and Lexicon of Food, explains why and how he and wife Laura Howard-Gayeton, use language and graphics to transform our food systemLexicon of Food

Guest Diana Dyer, M.S., R.D. dietitian and organic garlic farmer reveals the single barrier preventing her from farming in her youth; she describes the soil-food web, the benefits of organic farming, and connects soil, plant and human healthDyer Family Organic Farm

Guest Katherine Pryor, childrens book author and sustainable food systems educator returns to discuss the story behind her latest delightful book, Zoras Zucchini. Perfect for food literacy classroom activities and helping children appreciate gardenings power in building a healthy communityMeet Author Katherine Pryor

Guest Anna Lappe, sustainable food advocate, and co-author of Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the Story of Food, reveals how industry front groups mislead, misinform, and twist how we think about food and farmingAnna Lappe

Guest Richard Bickel, international photojournalist, captures images of the Oystermen of Apalachicola, FL, and describes environmental threats to the region, its prized shellfish, people and cultureApalachicola Riverkeeper

Guest Bill Wilson, Co-Founder Birds and Beans Coffee, LLC, explains how shade-grown, bird-friendly coffee protects migratory bird populations, and our planetBirds and Beans

Guest Lani Malmberg, gypsy goat herder, describes how and why she works with goats to provide a safe, natural, ecological answer to weed control and land restorationManage Weeds with Goats

Guest Sean Sellers, M.A., Senior Investigator/Monitor, Fair Food Standards Council, Sarasota, FL, describes farm labor conditions in Immokalee Florida, and how farmworker standards, monitoring and education have advanced the human rights of farmworkers and supported ethical supply chainsFair Food Standards Council

Guest Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and Editor, Independent Science News, Ithaca, NY, questions the assumptions, narratives, and PR spin re food, agriculture, and biotechnologyIndependent Science News

Guest Louis Guillette, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Director, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences, Medical University of South Carolina and Hollings Marine Laboratory, describes his research showing how environmental contaminants harm alligators and similarly, humansBeyond Pesticides

Guest Amy Mondlach, Toxic Tater Campaign Coordinator, describes how pesticide drift from potato fields owned by Ronald D. Offutt (RDO), the largest potato grower in the world and one of McDonalds leading potato suppliers, are harming children and the environment in north central MinnesotaToxic Taters

Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health, discusses the impact of antibiotic overuse, the promise and uncertainties of probiotics, the gut-brain connection and how aging impacts the microbiota. (Part II)Sonnenberg Lab

Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-Term Health, describes our gut bacterias role in health and disease. (Part I)Sonnenberg Lab

Guest Kimber Stanhope, PhD, RD, associate research nutritional biologist, University of California-Davis, discusses the relationship between sugar consumption, metabolic disease and industrys influence on science and health policySugarScience

Guest E. G. Vallianatos, Ph.D., author of Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA, takes us behind the scenes of his 25 year career at the U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyPoison Spring

Guest Jeannie Economos, Pesticide safety and environmental health project coordinator, Farmworker Association of Florida, discusses toxic Lake Apopka how agriculutral chemicals have harmed the natural environment and farmworker healthFarmworker Association of Florida

Guest Andy Bellati, M.S., R.D., explains how the food industry influences what we think about food and health, and food industry deception vs. realitySmall Bites

Bruce Lanphear, M.D., M.P.H, clinician scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Childrens Hospital, and Professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, talks about environmental toxins, their impact on childrens health, and profit motives that take precedence over public healthEnvironmental Health Atlas

Guest Jennifer Hartle, PhD., M.H.S., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Standford University School of Medicine, and environmental health scientist talks about Bisphenol-A (BPA), the estrogen-mimicking compound that leaches out of plastics, food and beverage cans, and found in school lunchBPA Guide

Guest Suzanne Dixon, M.P.H., M.S., R.D., dietitian with expertise in nutrition and chronic disease prevention describes the most important steps we can take to improve our diets. Tune in for a big picture look at nutrition scienceNo Nutrition Fear

Guest Lenore Arab, Ph.D. Nutritional epidemiologist, UCLA, explains how fruits, vegetables and unique components of tea can help protect our healthLenore Arab

Guest Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States discusses his organizations role in protecting animal welfare, our natural kinship with animals, and ways we can see through corporate propaganda about industrial farmsHumane Society of the United States

Guest Jahi Chappel, Ph.D. Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, talks about Deepening Food Democracy, the report he co-authoredDeepening Food Democracy

Guest Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer and entrepreneur describes his local foods cost calculator to increase the the use of locally raised food in restaurants and food serviceSCALE

Guest Stephen Ritz, South Bronx educator featured in TEDx Manhattan, one of the top 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize describes the Green Bronx Machine and how growing vegetables in school changed the lives of his students in one of the poorest school districts in the countryGreen Bronx Machine

Guest Anita Poeppel, Illinois farmer, speaks about the hazards of pesticide drift, and the Spray Drift Education Network, created to help report, monitor and protect rural families, crops and CSA customers who want pesticide-free foodSpray Drift Education Network

Guest Sanjay Rawal, director, Food Chains, discusses his documentary film that sheds light on past and present farm worker conditions with hope and actions for justiceFood Chain$

Guest Margaret Reeves, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and advocate at the Pesticide Action Network describes the risks farmworkers face from pesticide exposure and the new Equitable Farm InitiativeEFI

Guest Jo Ann Hattner, MPH, RD, dietitian and author of Gut Insight: probiotics and prebiotics for digestive health and well-being, describes foods that nourish and protect gut microorganismsGut Insight

Guest Roni Neff, Ph.D., Director of the Food System Sustainability Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for a Livable Future, and editor of Introduction to the U.S. Food System: Public Health, Environment, and Equity. Neff describes sustainable diets and climate-friendly eatingIntroduction to the US Food System

Guest Stacia Nordin, R.D., Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Advisor for the United Nations, has worked in worked in Malawi, East Africa, for 17 years. She describes the benefits of biodiversity and permaculture in feeding the world (not GMOs)Never Ending Food

Guest Gary Wenk, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Molecular Virology at the Ohio State University, and author of Your Brain on Food: How Chemicals Control Your Thoughts and Feelings, will talk about coffee, chocolate, food addiction and moreYour Brain on Food

Guest Eliza Greenman, owner/operator of Legacy Fruit Trees in Virginia and Director of Biodiversity for Greenhorns, an organization made up of young farmers, to recruit, promote and support the new generation of farmers. Greenman describes her experiences in the orchard and at the annual Future Farmers of America meeting in KYGreenhorns

Guest Jim Gerritsen, owner and operator of Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine, and President of the Maine-based Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, which in 2011 filed a lawsuit against Monsanto to challenge seed patents. Gerritsen describes the lawsuit, our common heritage of seeds, transgenic contamination and why he supports GMO food labelingWood Prairie Farm

Guest Ted Genoways, author of The Chain, continues his discussion revealing the true cost of cheap food, including antibiotic resistance, declining water quality and how we can help build a sustainable food system. Part II of IITed Genoways

Guest Ted Genoways, author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, a riveting, compelling expose of the meatpacking industry, through the lens of Hormel. Genoways describes working conditions and related injuries, the shift in labor force and immigration. Part I of IITed Genoways

Guest Paul Hanley, environment columnist with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and author of Eleven which describes how 11 billion people on Earth by centurys end will change everything. Hanley discusses consumerism and the need to evaluate food and farming through an ecological lens for a sustainable futurePaul Hanley

Guest Nancy Clark, M.S., R.D. Registered Dietitian, internationally respected sports nutritionist, athlete and author of Nancy Clarks Sports Nutrition Guidebook: The #1 nutrition resource for active people, describes elements of a winning sports diet and how to fuel better to feel better.Nancy Clark

Guest Jill Nussinow, M.S., R.D., dietitian and author of Nutrition CHAMPS: New Way of Thinking about Food Groups that Will Change Your Life, discusses her new cookbook which focuses on a plant-based diet rich in cruciferous vegetables, herbs, alliums, mushrooms, pulse, seeds and nuts, and their health-promoting and flavorful attributesThe Veggie Queen

Guest Andrianna Natsoulas, author of Food Voices: Stories from the People Who Feed Us, describes the principles and pillars of food sovereignty, the consequences of fish and shrimp farming, and how consumers can be advocates for food justiceFood Voices

Guest Brian Wansink, Ph.D., Director of Cornell Universitys Food and Brand Lab, and author of Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, explains ways we can simply tweak our most common food environments, we can easily lose unwanted pounds and achieve better healthSlim By Design

Guest Eric Herm, 4th generation TX cotton farmer and author of Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, and Surviving Ourselves: The Evolution of Community, Education, and Agriculture in the 21st Century, describes challenges to sustainable farming and solutions for healing the planet.Son of a Farmer

Guest Deborah Madison, Americas leading authority on vegetarian cooking, talks about her life, kitchen, garden, and latest cookbooks: The New Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone, and 2014 James Beard Award-winning Vegetable Literacy.Deborah Madison

Guest Amanda Heyman, attorney, provides legal counsel for independent farmers & food businesses; she discusses legal aspects of GMO, organic and natural labeling, and threats from pesticide driftLawyers for Good Food

Guest Janisse Ray, author of the The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, describes hopeful, collective actions to protect our sacred seeds, farmers rights and the future of our foodJanisse Ray

Guest Mary Stein, M.S., Deputy Director, National Farm to School Network explains how increasing local food in schools from regional farms to school gardens -- improves child nutrition, school performance and community developmentNational Farm to School Network