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Despite growing newfound interest in food, diets and nutrition, how many question where their food comes from and the conditions under which it was...
Bought by WRGY
- Added: Mar 19, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Consumers increasingly demand “clean food,” produced without pesticides. Our decisions to purchase foods grown without pesticides not only benefits...
- Added: Mar 13, 2015
- Length: 28:00
In 1857, economic hardship left farmers and other citizens bust. Looking for a way to earn money Minnesotans took to the forests to harvest ginseng...
- Added: Mar 11, 2015
- Length: 04:39
Our third series kicks off with featured guest, Integrative Nurse-Practitioner Nichole Ingersoll, as she discusses the early symptoms of menepause;...
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 28:56
The growth of the craft beer industry is proving to be a win-win: both for brewers, and for pigs.
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
What we eat has ripple effects beyond our personal health. And for the first time, the newest (2015) version of the Dietary Guidelines for American...
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 28:00
What is the full cost of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the patenting of life forms? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, M...
- Added: Feb 12, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Weekday High intern Tatevik Aprikyan wanted to find out where the fish we eat comes from.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 01:36
Can eleven billion people live sustainably on Earth, in the face of climate change? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda H...
- Added: Jan 08, 2015
- Length: 28:00
Kirk Lombard calls himself a sea forager, and every other week offers this walking and fishing tour: a two-hour lesson on how to catch your own sea...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 09:50
We are no strangers to earthquakes here in the Bay Area. But there’s been nothing in recent memory to match the 9.0 quake that shook Japan on March...
- Added: Jan 07, 2015
- Length: 16:21
As the world population has grown, the demand for food has increased, technologies for more efficient harvest have evolved, and our natural systems...
- Added: Dec 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
The foods we put on our plates have ripple effects way beyond our personal health. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda He...
- Added: Dec 18, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Want to shed unwanted pounds without going on a diet? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview ...
- Added: Dec 12, 2014
- Length: 28:00
An article published by The Guardian in October provides a stark exposé of one of the largest Chinese suppliers of premium tuna to the Japanese mar...
- Added: Nov 24, 2014
- Length: 05:16
A vibrant mural announces Happy Lot Farm and Garden to visitors and anyone passing by. A greenhouse stands in the middle of the lot, and an improvi...
- Added: Oct 27, 2014
- Length: 06:45
Can you imagine a world without functioning antibiotics? Sadly, we’re headed in that direction due to overuse and misuse of these precious drugs, ...
- Added: Oct 10, 2014
- Length: 28:00
Our reliance on industrial agriculture has resulted in a food supply riddled with hidden environmental, economic and health care costs and beset by...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Sep 30, 2014
- Length: 19:11
- Purchases: 1
Antibiotics are given to animals living in concentrated feeding operations for two reasons: disease prevention and growth promotion/feed efficiency...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Sep 26, 2014
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
“Why would you need toxins to have a healthy food supply?” asks Mary Jo Forbord, a registered dietitian, organic farmer, and former executive direc...
- Added: Sep 11, 2014
- Length: 28:00
No one needs to eat livestock to survive, according to Dr. Brian Moench. Yet meat is almost universally the focus of the Western diet. The average...
- Added: Sep 10, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Food has become cheaper and more abundant in the last 150 years, largely thanks to technological advances. Irrigation, fertilizer, pesticides, and ...
Bought by KSJD
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 22:01
- Purchases: 1
Shellfish farmers, researchers, and chefs share their concerns about water contamination in the Sound and the danger is poses to shellfish.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2014
- Length: 07:52
- Purchases: 1
Are we being told the truth about GMO foods in our midst? Sheldon Krimsky is Editor/reader here and Ralph Nader wrote the foreword to this informat...
- Added: May 30, 2014
- Length: 01:40
Olive oil may help protect the cardiovascular system against the ill-effects of air pollution in cities.
- Added: May 21, 2014
- Length: 01:00
