773 episodes
Food Sleuth Radio Melinda Hemmelgarn
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- Health & Fitness
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4.9 • 30 Ratings
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Dietitian Melinda Hemmelgarn helps listeners “think beyond their plates,” connect the dots between food, health and agriculture, and find food truth.
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Timothy Wise, Senior Advisor at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy discusses risks of GM corn and Mexican food sovereignty.
Did you know that there is solid science behind concerns regarding the safety of genetically modified crops? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Timothy Wise, MS, author of Eating Tomorrow: Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food, and Senior Advisor at the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy. Wise discusses GM corn, and the impact of the U.S. Mexico Canada Trade Agreement (formerly NAFTA) on Mexican food sovereignty.
Related website: https://www.iatp.org/about/staff/timothy-wise Mexico Defends GM Corn Restrictions with Science: An Analysis of Mexico’s response in the USMCA dispute: https://www.iatp.org/mexicos-science-based-defense-gm-corn-restrictions -
Alexander Sammon, journalist and author of “Forbidden Fruit: The anti-avocado militias of Michoacan.”
Did you know that 80% of the avocadoes consumed in the U.S. are imported from Mexico? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Alexander Sammon, politics writer for Slate, journalist and author of “Forbidden Fruit: The anti-avocado militias of Michoacan.” Sammon describes the impact of U.S. trade policies on avocado imports, the environmental impacts of avocado production, and the violence related to avocado farming in Mexico. Note: Cinco de Mayo is the second largest avocado consuming day in the U.S.
Related website: https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/forbidden-fruit-avocado-militias-michoacan-mexico/ -
Austin Frerick, author, Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry.
Did you know that anti-trust legislation helps protect our democracy? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Austin Frerick, author of Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America’s Food Industry. Frerick discusses the dangers of monopolies, consolidation, and exploitation in our food system – how we lost fair markets, and who is getting rich at taxpayer expense.
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Cynthia Curl, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Environmental Health & Safety, Boise State University discusses women’s exposure to agricultural chemicals and benefits of organic food.
Did you know that prenatal exposure to glyphosate has been associated with shorter gestational time in utero, decreased fetal growth and preterm birth? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Cynthia Curl, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Co-Director, Center for Excellence in Environmental Health & Safety, at Boise State University. Curl founded and directs the Agricultural Health Lab where her research focuses on the intersection between agriculture and human health. Curl discusses her recent research on pesticide exposure during pregnancy, and the impact of consuming organic vs. conventional diets.
Related website: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/doi/10.1289/EHP12768 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37493357/ Agriculture Health Lab: https://www.boisestate.edu/agriculturalhealth/ -
Michelle Loosli, Senior Manager for Climate Education at the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity
Did you know that climate change is an imminent threat to human health, yet most schools do not provide education about climate change and its health impacts? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Michelle Loosli, Senior Manager for Climate Education at the American Public Health Association’s Center for Climate, Health and Equity. Loosli discusses a new educational tool kit on climate and health for students in grades 9-12. She explains climate mitigation and adaptation strategies, and provides ways youth can take action towards climate repair, rather than despair. Note: April 1-8 is Worldwide Climate and Justice Education Week
Related website: www.apha.org/Climate-Change https://www.apha.org/-/media/Files/PDF/topics/climate/Climate_and_Health_Youth_Education_Toolkit.pdf -
Bev Thorpe, Co-Founder of Clean Production Action, discusses the “Triple Planetary Crisis,” the fossil fuel-derived chemicals widely used in our food system, and strategies to advance a non-toxic economy.
Did you know that fossil fuel subsidies contribute to the “cheap” cost of plastic? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Bev Thorpe, Co-Founder of Clean Production Action, a resource to advance a non-toxic economy. Thorpe describes the “triple planetary crisis,” and shares strategies to move away from harmful fossil-fuel based chemicals used widely in our food system.
Related website: Clean Production Action’s “Green Screen:” https://www.cleanproduction.org/programs/greenscreen
Customer Reviews
RD/farm girl
Hi,
I’m a retired dietitian and live your podcast. My daughter is a QA in a been production plant.
I wanted your thoughts in the huge windmills going up on farms, land that you’ll never get back. I grew up in Indiana and was shocked upon seeing these huge ugly windmills that are forever ruining our landscape. None if the energy that is produced there is used by the people of Indiana. Instead it goes to New York. If New York wants these why don’t they have them in their backyard.
I loved growing up in a small family farm. I think that why I became an RD. Best of luck in. Saving them family farm, minus the huge windmills. Please try to investigate these.
Thanks,
Ann LaFontaine
Food Sleuth Radio
This podcast is evidence-based, informative and outstanding! The topics are relevant. Thank you to the host, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for choosing such timely topics and excellent guest speakers!
Carolyn Craven, Great Falls MT
Put on your must listen list!
I love it and share these highly informative and well done interviews!I’m not being a conspiracy theorist when I tell people that our government doesn’t enforce organic standards.
I had a Whole Foods manager tell me the GMO-free label meant that no glyphosate was used on the food.
He’s clueless, and every organic grocer & shopper should consider these as required listening.
Every college nutrition professor and dietetics studynt as well!