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What Doesn't Kill You

Food Industry Insights with Katy Keiffer

Food production is a curious business; it's nuanced, layered, complex, and political. In What Doesn’t Kill You, host Katy Keiffer endeavors to identify and explain some of the key issues in our food system through interviews with journalists, authors, scientists, activists, and industry experts. Water rights, meat and agricultural production, food waste, labor issues, and new technologies are just some of the topics explored so we can better understand how to feed the future.

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Katy Keiffer

Katy Keiffer has worked in and around the food industry for over thirty years. First as a cook, then a butcher, a cookbook publicist, and finally, a food writer, Katy has been present for the massive transformation of the food industry in America. Growing up in a rural New England town where gardening, composting, bread baking and scratch cooking were part of daily life gave her a lifelong appreciation of how important good food is for body and soul. A host at Heritage for over six years, she has spent the time engaging with a vast cohort of informed experts who have contributed enormous stores of knowledge about how our food system works, and how it doesn’t.

Latest Episodes

Organizing Poultry Workers in Arkansas

Episode 352, Aired: December 6, 2021

Magaly Licolli is a labor organizer in Northwest Arkansas, home to the chicken industry. She has been helping poultry workers push back against industry, demanding health care, paid leave, and better wages and working conditions, particularly during the pandemic. Heritage Radio Network is a listener...

Economic Study Shows the Value of Regional Agriculture on State Finances

Episode 351, Aired: November 29, 2021

Economic researcher Dave Swenson and Niman Ranch Farmer Ron Mardesen discuss the financial impact on rural communities of hog farming in more traditional systems vs the industrialized model so prevalent today. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What...

Scare Tactics by Factory Farms in Minnesota

Episode 350, Aired: November 16, 2021

Sonja Trom Eayrs, a family law attorney in Minneapolis, has documented the way factory farming giants are deploying deceptive practices, intimidation, and harassment to expand their facilities throughout the farm belt. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support...

Farmer Focus, a New Kind of Poultry Company

Episode 349, Aired: October 25, 2021

Corwin Heatwole, Founder and CEO of Farmer Focus, joins to talk about creating a whole new model for industrial chicken production: "farmer-focused", organic, and certified humane. How did he achieve that?? Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn...

Lab Grown Meat: A Deep Dive Into Viability

Episode 348, Aired: October 20, 2021

Deputy Editor of The Counter, Joe Fassler, joins the show to deconstruct his article on lab-grown meat; the economics, the infrastructure, and the viability as a replacement for actual meat. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What Doesn't Kill You by...

Poultry Farmer Blows the Whistle on Perdue

Episode 347, Aired: October 11, 2021

Rudy Howell, a long-time contract grower for Perdue spoke up. He got fired. He has something to say about the industry, along with Amanda Hitt from the Food Integrity Campaign/ Government Accountability Project. Heritage Radio Network is a listener supported nonprofit podcast network. Support What...

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