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Did you know that “cheap” food carries a high cost? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview wit...

Bought by KVMR and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Nov 16, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that mutual understanding and respect are at the heart of food justice? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Oct 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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It's hard to come here as an immigrant. You leave everything behind.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 07, 2018
  • Length: 04:14
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that Smithfield Foods is a $15 billion global food company and the world’s largest hog producer and slaughterhouse? (Smithfield slaugh...

Bought by KVMR, RadioFreePalmer, and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Did you know that supermarkets hold great power and influence over the farmers, producers and workers who supply their products? Join Food Sleuth R...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Aug 17, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that labor union contracts help protect slaughterhouse workers’ health and safety? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitia...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Aug 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Logistics, the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption, logistics, has its origins in military ca...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2018
  • Length: 58:14
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Did you know that exposure to pesticides puts children and farm workers in harm’s way? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melin...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Running a fast food operation in a country beset with mismanagement, corruption, and lack of infrastructure.

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 04:30
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We visit the National Museum of African American History & Culture, the newest Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Co-Hosts Gregg & Gabriela interview...

  • Added: Jan 17, 2018
  • Length: 59:58
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Despite strict rules that you can't illicitly sell things outside of Jazz Fest, there is a whole economy that exists just beyond the festival gates...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:40
Caption: Arminio Órtiz Pérez, Credit: Eilís O’Neill
Working on a dairy--especially a small dairy--is one of the most dangerous jobs in the country, more dangerous even than construction. Over the pas...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 20:18
Caption: Coal miner Ronnie Johnson, with his lunchbox.
For decades, Ronnie Johnson woke up in the late afternoon, and fixed a lunch to bring with him 2,000 feet underground, as he worked all night in a ...

Bought by WMMT, KVLU, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 31:48
  • Purchases: 4
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Episode topics: Millennial work stress and berries.

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNMU-FM, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 18, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This episode explores the circulation of food produced by inmates.

Bought by KFOI Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 29, 2016
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 2
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Did you know that Benjamin Franklin was a “whistleblower?” Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her inter...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Mar 03, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Did you know that a truly sustainable food system, includes standards for working conditions, fair wages and pricing, gender equity, and environmen...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:00
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This is the story of Springdale, Arkansas, and how chicken transformed a once-sleepy rural town into the most ethnically diverse city in the state—...

Bought by KVLU and WABE


  • Added: Feb 02, 2016
  • Length: 21:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Frozen tuna in the hold of a fishing ship. , Credit: Alex Hofford | Greenpeace | MarinePhotobank.org
World fisheries are in crisis, with many species pushed to the edge of extinction. The current system is a recipe for disaster: demand is up; exter...

  • Added: Jan 11, 2016
  • Length: 05:25
Caption: Carol Miller (L) and Marge Klindera (R)
Marjorie Klindera and Carol Miller have spent the past 30 Thanksgivings answering phone calls about turkey troubles from panicked home cooks.

Bought by WTIP, WUTC, WHYY, and KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm


  • Added: Nov 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: La Montanita Food Coop, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Credit: La Montanita
A look at some businesses that promote social justice, fair trade and labor practices, and thereby peace.

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 57:36
  • Purchases: 1
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The Fair Food Program is recognized as one of the great human rights success stories of our day. This unique farmworker- and consumer-driven initia...

  • Added: Jul 31, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Joshua Gubitz (L) and Len Berk (R)
Len Berk talks to his friend, Joshua Gubitz, about becoming a salmon slicer after retiring from a 40 year career in accounting.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
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Just a stone’s throw from Orlando’s Disneyworld, Florida’s Lake Apopka used to be a premier recreational lake, until agricultural chemical runoff p...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
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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