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Food Sleuth Radio, Jeannie Economos Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Food Sleuth Radio, Sanjay Rawal Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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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
Coffee: Trouble Brewing?
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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It’s the second most-traded commodity in the world after oil but how much do you think about your cup of coffee? From coffee farmers in Colombia to...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WRIR, and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Food Sleuth Radio, Ted Genoways Interview Part 2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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American consumers are told that “cheap” protein is the product of an efficient, consolidated meatpacking industry. However, the environmental toll...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Ted Genoways Interview Part I
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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What is the full cost of our industrialized food system? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her intervie...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
From home bakeries to warehouse businesses, food companies expand in Richmond
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: Rosa Robinson turns out cupcakes and other confections for Sweet Dreams Bake Shop, Credit: Sukey Lewis
Sky-high rents, Google buses and gentrification are all buzzwords around the Bay Area. But that is not the case in the city of Richmond. With unemp...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
Food Sleuth Radio, Jeff Ritterman Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide has been linked to a mysterious fatal kidney disease among farmers in Central America, Sri Lanka and India. Join Food...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pesticides on the Playground
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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How safe your children are might depend on where you live. Today we hear about how one pesticide has been banned for household use, but affects the...

Bought by KMUN


  • Added: Aug 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Food Sleuth Radio, Seth Holmes Interview - Part 2
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Doctors and dietitians recommend that we eat more fruits and vegetables for better health. But do you know who harvests our produce, and under what...

  • Added: Aug 01, 2014
  • Length: 28:00
Harvesting Justice
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Beverly Bell
Food Sovereignty is the fight for farmworker justice, sustainable practices, food accessibility and land reform. Although the idea is relatively ne...

Bought by KPVL and KCBX


  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 2
Food Sleuth Radio Diana Robinson Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Robinson, Campaign and Education Coordinator of the Food Chain Worker Alliance, exposes some of the hidden faces and working conditions in the food...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
Chip
From: Schuyler Swenson
Caption: Chip Koser in his workshop.
Chip Koser of Mashpee is a professionally trained chef who’s worked in a number of famous restaurants. But in recent years Chip has been spending l...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 31, 2013
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 2
Food trucks threatened by crime in Oakland
From: KALW
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Oakland is known for its food trucks, which serve everything from tacos and tamales to West African cuisine. But few know that this latest culinar...

Bought by NPR Illinois and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 10, 2012
  • Length: 07:25
  • Purchases: 2
"We need a penny!" Farmworkers Fight For Justice
From: On Blast
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The Coalition of Immokalee Workers organized a rally in front of a center city Trader Joes and the Philly Student Union was there to help support.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 03:04
Food Sleuth Radio, Steph Larsen Interview
From: Dan Hemmelgarn
Series: Food Sleuth Radio
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Food Sleuth Radio host, Melinda Hemmelgarn interviews Steph Larsen, Assistant Director of Organizing, Rural Organizing and Outreach at the Center ...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2012
  • Length: 28:00
Hungry Harvesters: Migrant Labor and the Poverty that Produces Our Plenty
From: A World of Possibilities
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On today's industrial farms, field workers harvest crops that they themselves can't afford to buy. Join us as we ask how much we're willing to pay ...

Bought by WRIR, KXOT Public Radio, and KHNS


  • Added: Jul 04, 2011
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 3
Fourteen Thousand Pounds of Dogfish
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Phenology Show
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Last march, Armas Yuhala trapped tons of the “rough fish” in the Mississippi near Cohasset. He sold them to fish markets in New York City.

  • Added: May 12, 2010
  • Length: 10:43
How We Survive: Sprouting Up in Empty Breadbaskets
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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The irony of food poverty in California’s agriculturally rich Central Valley and a look at community gardens popping up in food deserts. We also ex...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
Building Green
From: Bill Baue
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BuildingGreen.com founder Alex Wilson discusses the history, current state, and future of the green building movement. Erin Gorman, CEO of Divine ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
Kim Fellner on her book- Wrestling with Starbucks: Conscience, Capital, Cappuccino
From: Chris Goldstein
Series: Active Voice Radio
Caption: Kim Fellner, Credit: Rutgers Press
A Labor Activist finds surprises at America's most visible coffee source.

Bought by WRPI


  • Added: Jan 28, 2009
  • Length: 29:31
  • Purchases: 1
New Targets for Tomato Pickers
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Florida's highly exploited tomato pickers are aiming at new targets in their nationwide struggle to win decent wages and working conditions

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 04:35
Commentary: Justice for Only a Penny
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This discusses the attempts of Burger King to undo agreements by its major fast-food competitors to improve the shameful conditions of tomato pickers.

  • Added: Dec 06, 2007
  • Length: 03:52
Hungry Harvesters
From: A World of Possibilities
Series: Food Safety
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Migrant Labor and the Poverty that Produces our Plenty

Bought by WCNY, WSKG, WRPI, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Aug 20, 2007
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
Commentary: Just a Penny More
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A strong movement is under way to win decent treatment for the miserably treated tomato pickers whose work is essential to the hugely profitable fa...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 03:24
Farmworkers Need More Federal Help -- Now!
From: Dick Meister
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This commentary notes the great need for President Bush to provide much more relief to the thousands of farmworkers who've been struggling to meet...

Bought by KPFT


  • Added: Mar 15, 2007
  • Length: 02:35
  • Purchases: 1