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Welcome to Chews Wisely with Caroline Nelson, where we deconstruct food & sustainability topics with nuance and primary sources. Conversations will range from conscientious omnivory, supply chains, and regenerative agriculture, to the latest food studies, "Big Ag," and more. At Chews Wisely, we’ll go beneath the headlines and hot takes. We believe that real climate solutions are nuanced, that facts are friendly, and that there are many right ways to eat and be sustainable. Keep the conversation going at @chewswiselypodcast on Instagram!
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Inside the Conventional Chicken Industry with Esther Sprott
The commercial chicken industry is mysterious. It’s tightly controlled by the integrators - these are the companies that own and control the whole system - and it’s shrouded in NDA’s. We rarely get to hear from the actual farmers who raise the chicken. Until today! Esther Sprott, a regenerative and conventional farmer, joins us from Georgia where she and her family raise broiler chickens for a large integrator. Caroline asks Esther all of her burning chicken industry questions, and Esther answers with candor and grace.
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Is Organic Really Better? with Robert Paarlberg
This episode with Dr. Robert Paarlberg mythbusts from start to finish. Everything you think you know about the dirty dozen, food subsidies, the cost of whole food vs processed…just set it to the side because he is here with the data and the nuance that we need to dig deeper. You will especially love his nuance about modern precision agriculture and how we need to stop conflating Big Food with Big Ag. You can break out of your food echo chamber with his latest book, Resetting the Table.
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Decolonizing Food with Mariah Gladstone
Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee) is a botanist, a chef, and an advocate for healthy eating and indigenous foods. She joins us today for a conversation about the invisible foods all around us, what it means to re-indigenize our diets, and how food was used as a tool of colonization. We also talk about food sovereignty, the limits of the term ‘food desert,’ and the Irish Potato Famine that wasn’t.
Indigikitchen website
Indigikitchen Instagram
Mariah’s Ted Talk
About the Little Ice Age
Sinead O’Connor - Famine
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[Patreon Preview] Our Home Birth Story
Caroline tells the story of her home birth, and her journey through the medical system leading up to her crunchy-adjacent birthing experience.
This is a Patreon exclusive episode. To hear the full episode, become a regenerator at the link below.
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European Farmer Protests
Today we are diving into some current events, and talking about the farmer protests happening all across Europe. We dig into why and how these farmers are protesting, and what we can take away from these protests here in America.
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Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czech-slovak-farmers-block-borders-protest-2024-02-22/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hundreds-of-tractors-line-the-streets-of-madrid-as-farmers-protest-eu-farming-policies
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1414779/pesticide-sales-by-categorization-of-active-substances-european-union/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/40408/30645_wrs0404e_002.pdf
https://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/en/data-insights/benchmarking-agricultural-productivity-performance-in-the-eu
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/europe-farmers-climate-green-protest-eu
https://time.com/6632372/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-brussels/
https://apnews.com/article/eu-farmer-protest-trade-red-tape-710e9bd6c6df6ecd9e598418473604eb
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/world/europe/ukraine-poland-protest-farmers.html -
Everything You've Been Told About Nutrition Is Wrong with Lily Nichols
Lily Nichols, RDN, joins us today to turn everything we thought we knew about gestational diabetes (and nutrition in general) upside down. We also cover why we need to get over our fear of salt, fat, and meat when pursuing health. And then we dig into misconceptions around folic acid and B12, and whether eating seafood during pregnancy is safe. Everyone who eats will enjoy this deeply evidence based episode, whether or not you’re pregnant!
Lily’s website & blog
Lily’s books
Lily on Instagram
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