Food Sleuth Radio

Carey Gillam Interview

12 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Carey Gillam, research director at U.S. Right to Know, and former senior correspondent and investigative reporter for Reuters, describes her exp...

Tod Cooperman Interview

05 May 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Tod Cooperman, M.D. President and Founder of Consumerlab.com, describes risks and benefits of some of the most popular dietary supplements, plus...

Richard Louv Interview

28 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, The Nature Principle, and most recently, Vita...

Charles Benbrook Interview Part 2

21 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., agricultural economist, describes the nutritional benefits of organic food. Part IIOrganic vs non-organic food

Charles Benbrook Interview Part 1

14 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Charles Benbrook, Ph.D., agricultural economist and member of the USDAs AC 21 biotechnology Agricultural Committee, describes safety, environmen...

Liz Carlisle Interview

07 Apr 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Liz Carlisle, Ph.D., author of Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America, and Fellow at the Center for Diversified ...

Lisa McDowell Interview

31 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Lisa McDowell, M.S., R.D., Director of Clinical Nutrition and Wellness at St. Joseph Mercy Health System in Ann Arbor, MI, and team dietitian fo...

Bill Marler Interview

24 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Bill Marler, foodborne illness lawyer and expert in food safety, discusses ways to prevent national foodborne illness outbreaks in general, the ...

Kathleen Delate Interview

17 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Kathleen Delate, Ph.D., professor of horticulture at IA State University describes her research on the benefits of organic farming systemsIowa S...

Reed Mangels Interview

10 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D. Nutrition advisor for the Vegetarian Resource Group, and nutrition professor at the University of Massachusetts Amhers...

Amanda Hitt Interview

03 Mar 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Amanda Hitt, Director of the Government Accountability Project Food Integrity Campaign, describes the role food industry whistleblowers play in ...

Doug Crabtree Interview

25 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Doug Crabtree, M.S., organic heirloom grain and pulse (legumes, lentils, beans, peas) farmer, explains his conservation-based land ethic for sus...

Colette Cosner Interview

18 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Colette Cosner, former Executive Director of the Domestic Fair Trade Association, explains how free trade agreements impact farm workers and imm...

Jim Goodman Interview

11 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jim Goodman, organic dairy farmer, member of Family Farm Defenders, and the Organic Consumers Association defines food security, food sovereignt...

Dave Seddon Interview

04 Feb 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Dave Seddon, Registered Dietitian, Board President and CEO of the Maine Farm and Sea Cooperative, Americas first farm-institution food service c...

Gail Hansen Interview

28 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Gail Hansen, DVM, MPH, discusses the increasing risk of antibiotic-resistant infections resulting from rising rates of misuse and abuse of antib...

Valerie Segrest Interview

21 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Valerie Segrest, M.S., Native American nutritionist, co-author of Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit: Revitalizing Northwest Coastal Indian ...

Robert Shetterly Interview

14 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Robert Shetterly, artist and founder of the Americans Who Tell the Truth project, explains his humanitarian work: painting portraits and telling...

Jonathan Lundgren Interview Part 2

07 Jan 2016

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D. Award-winning entomologist discusses his research on neonicotinoid pesticides, their pervasive use, harmful effects, an...

Jonathan Lundgren Interview

31 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jonathan Lundgren, Ph.D., Agroecologist and Entomologist, discusses his 20-years of research on bugs, pesticides, and why he left his USDA lab t...

Representative Louise Slaughter Interview

24 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Representative Louise Slaughter, M.S., Congresswoman, 25th District New York State discusses her efforts to pass legislation -- the Preservation...

Aimee Code Interview

17 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Aimee Code, M.S., Pesticide Program Director at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, will discuss the widespread use, and unintende...

Kelay Trentham Interview

10 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Kelay Trentham, R.D., oncology dietitian discusses the role medical cannabis can play in relieving cancer treatment side-effects, challenges of ...

Catherine Badgley Interview

03 Dec 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Catherine Badgley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at U. of MI defines biodiversity, why it is essential for surv...

Bruce Hemming Interview

30 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Bruce Hemming, Ph.D. President and CEO of Microbe Inotech Laboratories, Inc., St. Louis, MO, describes how glyphosate' s metal chelating actions...

Nicolette Hahn Niman Interview

26 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Nicolette Hahn Niman, author, Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production, describes her manifesto of an environmental lawyer and v...

Stacia Clinton Interview

19 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Stacia Clinton, R.D., Regional Direcctor, Health Care Without Harm Healthy Food in Health Care Program, and Chair of the Clinician Champions in ...

Dana Gunders Interview

12 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Dana Gunders, Staff Scientist, National Resources Defense Council and author of the Waste Free Kitchen Handbook, discusses how to reduce food wa...

David Mortensen Interview

05 Nov 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest David Mortensen, Ph.D., Professor of Weed Ecology, Penn State U., explains unintended consequences of GMO crops engineered to resist herbicides,...

Richard Oswald Interview

29 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Richard Oswald, 5th generation family farmer, journalist (Progressive Farmer, Daily Yonder), President, Missouri Farmers' Union and director for...

Nancy Zucker Interview

22 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Nancy Zucker, Ph.D., Director of the Center for Eating Disorders, Duke University Medical Center, discusses her research on picky eaters, and ex...

Laura Batcha Interview

15 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Laura Batcha, CEO and Executive Director of the Organic Trade Association, defines organic, busts myths, and explains the unique benefits of org...

Routt Reigart Interview

08 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Routt Reigart, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina, co-editor of the 6th Edition of the EPA Recog...

JoAnne Berkenkamp Interview

01 Oct 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest JoAnne Berkenkamp, M.S., Senior Advocate for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Food and Agriculture Program discusses food waste.NDRC

Robert McChesney Interview

24 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Robert McChesney, Ph.D., Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and co...

Douglas Gayeton Interview

17 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Douglas Gayeton, award-winning multi-media artist and mastermind behind the Lexicon of Sustainability, and Lexicon of Food, explains why and how...

Diana Dyer Interview

10 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Diana Dyer, M.S., R.D. dietitian and organic garlic farmer reveals the single barrier preventing her from farming in her youth; she describes th...

Katherine Pryor Interview

03 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Katherine Pryor, childrens book author and sustainable food systems educator returns to discuss the story behind her latest delightful book, Zor...

Anna Lappe Interview

27 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Anna Lappe, sustainable food advocate, and co-author of Spinning Food: How Food Industry Front Groups and Covert Communications are Shaping the ...

Richard Bickel Interview

20 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Richard Bickel, international photojournalist, captures images of the Oystermen of Apalachicola, FL, and describes environmental threats to the ...

Bill Wilson Interview

13 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Bill Wilson, Co-Founder Birds and Beans Coffee, LLC, explains how shade-grown, bird-friendly coffee protects migratory bird populations, and our...

Lani Malmberg Interview

06 Aug 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Lani Malmberg, gypsy goat herder, describes how and why she works with goats to provide a safe, natural, ecological answer to weed control and l...

Sean Sellers Interview

30 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Sean Sellers, M.A., Senior Investigator/Monitor, Fair Food Standards Council, Sarasota, FL, describes farm labor conditions in Immokalee Florida...

Jonathan Latham Interview

23 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jonathan Latham, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project and Editor, Independent Science News, Ithaca, NY, questions the as...

Louis Guillette Interview

16 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Louis Guillette, Jr., Ph.D., Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Director, Marine Biomedicine and Environmental Sciences, Medical Universi...

Amy Mondlach Interview

09 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Amy Mondlach, Toxic Tater Campaign Coordinator, describes how pesticide drift from potato fields owned by Ronald D. Offutt (RDO), the largest po...

Justin Sonnenberg Interview Part 2

02 Jul 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control o...

Justin Sonnenberg Interview Part 1

25 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Justin Sonnenberg, Ph.D., Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, author of The Good Gut: Taking Control o...

Kimber Stanhope Interview

18 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Kimber Stanhope, PhD, RD, associate research nutritional biologist, University of California-Davis, discusses the relationship between sugar con...

E. G. Vallianatos Interview

11 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest E. G. Vallianatos, Ph.D., author of Poison Spring: The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA, takes us behind the scenes of his 25 year career...

Jeannie Economos Interview

04 Jun 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jeannie Economos, Pesticide safety and environmental health project coordinator, Farmworker Association of Florida, discusses toxic Lake Apopka ...

Andy Bellati Interview

28 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Andy Bellati, M.S., R.D., explains how the food industry influences what we think about food and health, and food industry deception vs. reality...

Bruce Lanphear Interview

21 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Bruce Lanphear, M.D., M.P.H, clinician scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Childrens Hospital, and Professor at Simon Fraser Un...

Jennifer Hartle Interview

14 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jennifer Hartle, PhD., M.H.S., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Standford University School of Medicine, and environmental health scientist talks a...

Suzanne Dixon Interview

07 May 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Suzanne Dixon, M.P.H., M.S., R.D., dietitian with expertise in nutrition and chronic disease prevention describes the most important steps we ca...

Lenore Arab Interview

30 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Lenore Arab, Ph.D. Nutritional epidemiologist, UCLA, explains how fruits, vegetables and unique components of tea can help protect our healthLen...

Wayne Pacelle Interview

23 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Wayne Pacelle, President and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States discusses his organizations role in protecting animal welfare, our n...

Jahi Chappel Interview

16 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jahi Chappel, Ph.D. Director of Agroecology and Agriculture Policy at the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, talks about Deepening Food...

Anthony Flaccavento Interview

09 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Anthony Flaccavento, organic farmer and entrepreneur describes his local foods cost calculator to increase the the use of locally raised food in...

Stephen Ritz Interview

02 Apr 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Stephen Ritz, South Bronx educator featured in TEDx Manhattan, one of the top 10 finalists for the Global Teacher Prize describes the Green Bron...

Anita Poeppel Interview

26 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Anita Poeppel, Illinois farmer, speaks about the hazards of pesticide drift, and the Spray Drift Education Network, created to help report, moni...

Sanjay Rawal Interview

19 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Sanjay Rawal, director, Food Chains, discusses his documentary film that sheds light on past and present farm worker conditions with hope and ac...

Margaret Reeves Interview

12 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Margaret Reeves, Ph.D., Senior Scientist and advocate at the Pesticide Action Network describes the risks farmworkers face from pesticide exposu...

Jo Ann Hattner Interview

05 Mar 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jo Ann Hattner, MPH, RD, dietitian and author of Gut Insight: probiotics and prebiotics for digestive health and well-being, describes foods tha...

Roni Neff Interview

26 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Roni Neff, Ph.D., Director of the Food System Sustainability Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for a Livable...

Stacia Nordin Interview

19 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Stacia Nordin, R.D., Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Advisor for the United Nations, has worked in worked in Malawi, East Africa, for 17 year...

Gary Wenk Interview

12 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Gary Wenk, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience, and Molecular Virology at the Ohio State University, and author of Your Brain on Food: ...

Eliza Greenman Interview

05 Feb 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Eliza Greenman, owner/operator of Legacy Fruit Trees in Virginia and Director of Biodiversity for Greenhorns, an organization made up of young f...

Jim Gerritsen Interview

29 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jim Gerritsen, owner and operator of Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater, Maine, and President of the Maine-based Organic Seed Growers and Trade As...

Ted Genoways Interview Part 2

22 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Ted Genoways, author of The Chain, continues his discussion revealing the true cost of cheap food, including antibiotic resistance, declining wa...

Ted Genoways Interview Part 1

15 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Ted Genoways, author of The Chain: Farm, Factory, and the Fate of Our Food, a riveting, compelling expose of the meatpacking industry, through t...

Paul Hanley Interview

08 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Paul Hanley, environment columnist with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix and author of Eleven which describes how 11 billion people on Earth by century...

Nancy Clark Interview

01 Jan 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Nancy Clark, M.S., R.D. Registered Dietitian, internationally respected sports nutritionist, athlete and author of Nancy Clarks Sports Nutrition...

Jill Nussinow Interview

25 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jill Nussinow, M.S., R.D., dietitian and author of Nutrition CHAMPS: New Way of Thinking about Food Groups that Will Change Your Life, discusses...

Andrianna Natsoulas Interview

18 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Andrianna Natsoulas, author of Food Voices: Stories from the People Who Feed Us, describes the principles and pillars of food sovereignty, the c...

Brian Wansink Interview

11 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Brian Wansink, Ph.D., Director of Cornell Universitys Food and Brand Lab, and author of Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday L...

Eric Herm Interview

04 Dec 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Eric Herm, 4th generation TX cotton farmer and author of Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, and Surviving Ourselves: The Evolution of Communit...

Deborah Madison Interview

27 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Deborah Madison, Americas leading authority on vegetarian cooking, talks about her life, kitchen, garden, and latest cookbooks: The New Vegetari...

Amanda Heyman Interview

20 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Amanda Heyman, attorney, provides legal counsel for independent farmers & food businesses; she discusses legal aspects of GMO, organic and n...

Janisse Ray Interview

13 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Janisse Ray, author of the The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, describes hopeful, collective actions to protect our sacred ...

Mary Stein Interview

06 Nov 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Mary Stein, M.S., Deputy Director, National Farm to School Network explains how increasing local food in schools from regional farms to school g...

Robert Lustig Interview

30 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Robert Lustig, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics, University of California San Francisco, author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Proc...

Robert Kremer Interview

23 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Robert Kremer, Ph.D., microbiologist formerly with the U.S.D.As Agricultural Research Service and Adjunct Professor of Soil Microbiology at the ...

Karen Collins Interview

16 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Karen Collins, M.S., RDN, Registered Dietitian and Nutrition Advisor to the American Institute for Cancer Research describes dietary strategies ...

Michael Graziano Interview

09 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Michael Graziano, producer and director of the film, Resistance which describes the history of antibiotics and how we are moving towards a post-...

Raymon Seidler Interview

02 Oct 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Raymon Seidler, Ph.D., former Senior Scientist at the Environmental Protection Agency, Corvallis, OR, and author of Pesticide Use on Genetically...

Margaret Carrel Interview

25 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Margaret Carrel, Ph.D., medical geographer and Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, describes her research which investigated residential pr...

Jeff Ritterman Interview

18 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jeff Ritterman, M.D., member, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and former Chief of Cardiology at Kaiser Richmond Medical Center, CA, explor...

Mary Jo Forbord Interview

11 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Mary Jo Forbord, RD, organic farmer and registered dietitian describes the intersection of health and agriculture, and the challenges she faces ...

Lynn Dornblaser Interview

04 Sep 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Lynn Dornblaser, Director of Innovation and Insight, at Mintel, an international global market research and analysis firm, describes the differe...

Jaydee Hansen Interview

28 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jaydee Hansen: Senior Policy Analyst for the Center for Food Safety discusses how nanotechnology is being applied to foods and food-related prod...

Harold Goldstein Interview

21 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Harold Goldstein: Executive Director, California Center for Public Health Advocacy, describes his work to reduce childhood obesity, specifically...

Norma Flores Lopez Interview

14 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Norma Flores Lopez: Director, Children in the Fields Campaign at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, describes child labor in ag...

Robert Shimek Interview

07 Aug 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Robert Shimek: Interim Executive Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and Founder of the Toxic Tater Coalition, discusses the publ...

Seth Holmes Interview

31 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Seth Holmes, Ph.D., M.D., anthropologist and author: Fresh Fruit: Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, describes the living,...

Jose Oliva Interview

24 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Jose Oliva, Associate Director of the Food Chain Workers Alliance describes the wages (the restaurant industry lobbies to keep the federal tippe...

John Pastor Interview

17 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest John Pastor, Ph.D., Project Art for Nature, and Natural Resources Research Institute, University of MN-Duluth, describes differences between sci...

Joanne Ikeda Interview

10 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Joanne Ikeda, M.A., R.D., Nutritionist Emeritus, Dept. of Nutritional Sciences, University of CA-Berkeley, explains how to protect children from...

Rose Hayden-Smith Interview

03 Jul 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Rose Hayden-Smith, Ph.D., U.S. garden historian and author of Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I, explains ...

Steve Suppan Interview

26 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Guest Steve Suppan, Ph.D., author of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy report: Nanomaterials In Soil: Our Future Food Chain?IATP