There's a Denomination of Origin for mezcal -- has been since 1997. The Mexican government gets to decide what is and what isn't mezcal. So if the Mexican government doesn't recognize an agave spirit as "mezcal," should we? It's another rhetorical episode of Agave Road Trip! Find extra photos and...

Mike Callicrate, activist and cattle rancher comes back to talk about the Executive Order signed by Biden that addresses long standing grievances in the animal agriculture sector, among others. Included in the EO are measures to address pricing transparency, labeling, enforcement and re-write of the Packers and Stockyards Act. Heritage...

Have you ever heard the saying you should never judge a food by its label? Probably not since labels are supposed to give you useful information about the food within. What happens when that doesn’t hold true? This week on Meat and Three we’re looking at instances where labels mislead...

How is American Humane Certified different from other animal welfare labels? Do American Humane Certified farms all use the same production methods? In this episode, Connor Reynolds, the Senior Field Operations Manager at American Humane, answers the most frequently asked questions consumers have when they see the seal on their...

It is the 28th day of the longest government shutdown in history. 800,000 federal employees have gone without pay and as bills begin to pile up, putting food on the table feels a lot more important than partisan impasse. At HRN, we discovered that the shutdown has impacted our food...

Michael S. Kideckel is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Columbia University. His dissertation "uses the breakfast cereal industry’s advocacy of 'natural food' as a case study to explain the industrial roots of American ideas about nature". We discuss key figures in/against the Slow Food Movement (Pollan, Waters, Laudan), the...

Getting to know where your meat actually comes from is a very important thing, and i think were gonna have to pay more for it and eat less of it.

Katy Keiffer is flying solo today on What Doesn't Kill You and she's got plenty to say. First, she recaps some news - from legal pot to cheese in cat food. Later, she talks about the industrial food industry at large and identifies some of the worst and best aspects...

[audio mp3="https://heritageradionetwork.org/sites/default/files/wp-uploads/2015/11/Does-Labeling-Hurt-the-Local-Food-System.mp3"][/audio] This panel discussion took place on November 13th, 2015. We're pleased to present the full-length recording here. Terms like "organic" and "made in Brooklyn" help educate consumers on what they are buying, but sometimes these terms can be misleading because they don't tell the whole story about the...

The Other White Meat is dead. Just Mayo is.. not mayo? Tune in to a fascinating episode of What Doesn't Kill You as host Katy Keiffer talks about labeling, slogans and other issues in food with Parke Wilde, Associate Professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston...