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Did you know that industrial agricultural practices, such as the use of antibiotics and arsenic in poultry production, pose health risks to workers...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jul 29, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that “invasive” species have historically served as a driving process of evolution? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietiti...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jun 02, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know the table of tomorrow will need to reflect a more regionalized food system? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Meli...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 26, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that resilience is an underlying condition of sustainability? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that organic food production methods confer nutritional benefits to both plant foods and meat and dairy products? Join Food Sleuth Rad...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 28:00
Did you know that the vast majority of genetically engineered crops are engineered to withstand spraying with the herbicide, glyphosate? And that o...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Apr 14, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that organic farming systems can reduce nitrate pollution, improve soil and food quality, all while providing bountiful yields? Join F...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Mar 17, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that farmers’ increasing use of antibiotics to prevent and treat animal diseases and increase growth efficiency contributes to antimic...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 28, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Did you know that regenerative agriculture could increase biodiversity, reduce pesticide use in food production, protect our bees, and offset most ...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer
- Added: Jan 08, 2016
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
The routine use of antibiotics in livestock contributes to the growing threat of antibiotic resistant infections in humans. Join Food Sleuth Radio ...
Bought by KRCB 104.9
- Added: Dec 25, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Are you curious about the keys to sustainability – for achieving abundant foods from a healthy ecosystem? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Register...
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 28:00
What if the stories we’ve been told repeatedly about the safety and need for industrial methods and genetically-engineered crops to feed the world ...
- Added: Jul 23, 2015
- Length: 28:00
The global water crisis and the prospects for future water resources is forcing adjustments for how we measure the water that is used, how it is va...
- Added: Jul 06, 2015
- Length: 05:19
Coffee, tea, and cocoa are just some of the crops that could be affected by rising carbon dioxide levels and temperatures brought on by climate cha...
Bought by WLPR
- Added: May 30, 2015
- Length: 01:00
- Purchases: 1
One part per billion is equal to two tablespoons of sugar dissolved in an Olympic sized swimming pool. Drugs used to treat children for ADHD are e...
- Added: May 22, 2015
- Length: 28:00
- 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
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
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
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
It may seem hard to imagine, but we have more microbial cells in our guts than we have human cells in our bodies. Join Food Sleuth Radio host and R...
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 28:01
April is Parkinson’s Awareness Month. Did you know that farmers who use pesticides are at greater risk for developing Parkinson's Disease (PD)? Or ...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 28:00
“Natural” gas may sound like a clean alternative to foreign oil, but natural gas extraction utilizing hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases the...
- Added: Apr 04, 2014
- Length: 28:00
