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(S2:E7): Part 2 Food Facts vs Fiction... It's Complicated‪!‬ Welcome to Class

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Carli also speaks with Assistant Teaching Professor Kate Gilbert who has years of industry experience with processing and packaging. Kate also shares ideas about consumer involvement and the direction we are headed with more transparency.

National FFA Organization 

National 4H Organization 

Crops Feed The World

From Kate Gilbert:

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat 

America’s Eating Habits: Food Away From Home 

50 Shades of Brown 

The Counter - it used to be the New Food Economy.  The journalists there do a fantastic job covering aspects of the food system that we wonder about but don't often hear.  

Reducing Wasted Food At Home - there are many good references about food waste. The EPA website is a good starting place & includes what consumers can do at home to reduce food waste.

Healthy Soils Are The Basis for Healthy Food Production

The Great Nutrient Collapse -This is a fascinating article about how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are changing the composition of plants and foods (and not for the better).

Carli also speaks with Assistant Teaching Professor Kate Gilbert who has years of industry experience with processing and packaging. Kate also shares ideas about consumer involvement and the direction we are headed with more transparency.

National FFA Organization 

National 4H Organization 

Crops Feed The World

From Kate Gilbert:

50 Years Ago, Sugar Industry Quietly Paid Scientists To Point Blame At Fat 

America’s Eating Habits: Food Away From Home 

50 Shades of Brown 

The Counter - it used to be the New Food Economy.  The journalists there do a fantastic job covering aspects of the food system that we wonder about but don't often hear.  

Reducing Wasted Food At Home - there are many good references about food waste. The EPA website is a good starting place & includes what consumers can do at home to reduce food waste.

Healthy Soils Are The Basis for Healthy Food Production

The Great Nutrient Collapse -This is a fascinating article about how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are changing the composition of plants and foods (and not for the better).

29 min