It’s All About Food

It’s All About Food - Matthew Shepherd, Bring Back the Pollinators

Matthew Shepherd, Director of Outreach and Education, Bring Back the PollinatorsMatthew has worked for the Xerces Society for more than two decades, initially at the vanguard of a new movement to protect pollinators, but then on endangered species and a range of other issues, as well as several years leading Xerces’ communications work. Throughout this time, he maintained a direct involvement in pollinator conservation in towns and cities, and in his current role has returned to outreach and community engagement. Much of this focuses on supporting neighborhood-level efforts such as pollinator gardens and small habitat projects in parks, as well as leading the Bring Back the Pollinators campaign and promoting the No Mow May and Leave the Leaves initiatives.
Matthew is author of numerous articles and other publications, including Attracting Native Pollinators (Storey Publishing, 2011) and Gardening for Butterflies (Timber Press, 2016). He also is the long-time editor of Wings, the Xerces Society’s magazine.
Matthew’s 35-year conservation career began in England and took him to Kenya before his arrival in the United States. After completing a master’s of science in land resource management, Matthew managed National Trust lands in Oxfordshire, established a successful community-based conservation program in Essex, and helped to create Samphire Hoe, an award-winning nature park at the foot of the White Cliffs of Dover. During a VSO placement in Kenya, he worked with local communities and government agencies to improve the management of Arabuko-Sokoke Forest, on the coast north of Mombasa.
It was in Kenya that he met a Peace Corps volunteer⁠—who is the reason he moved to Oregon. They live on the west side of the Portland metro region. Their two children are now at college, but they still get together—although sometimes they roll their eyes when Matthew points out yet another super-cool insect that he found.

It’s All About Food - Will Potter, LITTLE RED BARNS Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable

Will Potter, LITTLE RED BARNS Hiding the Truth, from Farm to FableWill Potter (@willpotter) is a thought leader and award-winning investigative journalist and author whose work has focused on social justice movements and attacks on civil rights post-9/11. He has been invited to speak about human rights and political repression before governmental bodies including the U.S. Congress, the Australian Parliament, and the Council of Europe. He was the first investigative journalist to be named a TED Senior Fellow, and his TED talks on anti-protest laws and secret prisons have been viewed nearly 10 million times. His book, Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege, exposed the targeting of nonviolent protest groups by the FBI and was awarded a Kirkus Star for “remarkable merit.” Will was awarded the prestigious Knight-Wallace Fellowship in Law Reporting, and is the inaugural civil rights fellow and distinguished journalist-in-residence at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. His new book, Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable, is now available for pre-order from City Lights. 
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 Listen to the IT’S ALL ABOUT FOOD interview with Will Potter about Green Is the New Red: An Insider’s Account of a Social Movement Under Siege.

It’s All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, Earth Day/Birthday, and the Poop on Toilet Paper

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Hartglass & De Mattei, The Poop on Toilet PaperCaryn and Gary share stories about Caryn’s recent birthday which occurs on Earth Day. Things to look out for in toilet paper are covered along with artificial sweeteners like aspartame.  Links mentioned in the program:
How Toxic Is Your Toilet Paper? Investigation of Brands
Toilet paper is an unexpected source of PFAS in wastewater, study says
Now We Need to Worry About Harmful ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Our Toilet Paper Too
All the Ways We’ve Wiped: The History of Toilet Paper and What Came Before
All About Reusable Toilet Paper: What You Should Know
Do You Need To Cut Out Aspartame?
Jim May, The Stevia Story

It’s All About Food - Caryn Hartglass, The Global Food System

Caryn Hartglass, The Global Food SystemIn this episode Caryn discusses the global food system, how every bit of food that is brought to our plate has involved so many people around the world. She shares stories of eating vegan and SOS-free on the road while in Vermont and Massachusetts. Recipes for Irish Soda Bread, both made with wheat and gluten-free versions are shared and discussed. The GMO corn story between the U.S. and Mexico is reviewed along with recipes for organic corn bread, and tortillas.  Links mentioned in this podcast:
Tortillas
Corn Bread: Gluten-Free AND SOS-Free!
Irish Soda Bread
The US vs. Mexico dispute over GMO corn: an attempt to keep track of it
Yes, Your Chili Powder Is Moving: The Gross Truth Behind Bugs in Your Kitchen Spices

It’s All About Food - John Sanbonmatsu, Our Resistance to Rethinking the Meat Economy

John Sanbonmatsu, Our Resistance to Rethinking the Meat EconomyJohn Sanbonmatsu is a writer, philosopher, and magician. He is author of The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals and Ourselves (New York University Press) and of The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the Making of a New Political Subject (Monthly Review Press). John received his BA from Hampshire College and his PhD in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California at Santa Cruz. John is Professor of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he teaches ethics, politics, philosophy of film, and existentialism (among other courses). John lives in the Boston area, where he performs as a semi-professional magician and mentalist.Follow John on Twitter (@SanbonmatsuJ) and Blue Sky (@jsanbonmatsu.bsky.social)
Links mentioned in the podcast:
Cell-Based Meat Debate, Resolve: Cell-Based Meat is Good for Animals
America Is Done Pretending About Meat
Clean Meat Hoax
 

It’s All About Food - Zoe Weil, The Solutionary Way

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Zoe Weil, The Solutionary WayZoe Weil is the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education (IHE). She is the author of seven other books, including Amazon #1 best seller in the Philosophy and Social Aspects of Education, The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries; Nautilus Silver Medal winner, Most Good, Least Harm; and Above All, Be Kind: Raising a Humane Child in Challenging Times. She has also written books for young people, including Moonbeam Gold Medal winner, Claude and Medea: The Hellburn Dogs, about 12-year-old activists inspired by their teacher to become solutionaries.
Her blog, Becoming a Solutionary, can be found at PsychologyToday.com.
In 2010, Zoe gave her first TEDx talk, “The World Becomes What You Teach,” which became among the 50 top-rated TEDx talks within a year. Since then she has given five other TEDx talks: “Solutionaries,” “Educating for Freedom,” “How to Be a Solutionary,” “Extending Our Circle of Compassion,” and “How Will You Answer This Question?”
Zoe is a recipient of the NCSS Spirit of America award that honors people who follow their conscience and act against current thinking in order to stand up for equity, freedom, and the American spirit of justice. She was named one of Maine Magazine’s 50 independent leaders transforming their communities and the state and was honored with the Women in Environmental Leadership award at Unity College. Her portrait was painted by Robert Shetterly for the Americans Who Tell The Truth portrait series.
Zoe received a master’s in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School; a master’s and bachelor’s in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania; and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Valparaiso University. Zoe is certified in psychosynthesis counseling, a form of psychotherapy which relies upon the intrinsic power of each person’s imagination to promote growth, creativity, health, and transformation.

It’s All About Food - Nathan Lents, The Sexual Evolution, How 500 million years of sex, gender, and mating shape modern relationships

Listen: Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4pm ET by going to PRN, The Progressive Radio Network.
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Nathan Lents, The Sexual Evolution, How 500 million years of sex, gender, and mating shape modern relationshipsNATHAN H. LENTS is a professor of biology at John Jay College, CUNY, and the author of Not So Different: Finding Human Nature in Animals and Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes. He has appeared as a scientific expert in a range of national media, including The TODAY Show, NPR, Access Hollywood, 48 Hours, and Al Jazeera America. He lives in Queens, NY.

It’s All About Food - Hartglass & De Mattei, The Curious Case of Caryn and Gary in London, Paris, and Aix-en-Provence

Listen: Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 4pm ET by going to PRN, The Progressive Radio Network.
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Hartglass & De Mattei, The Curious Case of Caryn and Gary in London, Paris, and Aix-en-ProvenceCaryn and Gary talk about eating not only vegan but SOS-free while enjoying theater, the sites, and seeing friends in London, Paris and Aix-en-Provence.
 Links mentioned in the podcast.Easy 2-Ingredient Vegan Chocolate Mousse

It’s All About Food - Michelle Perro, MD & Stephanie Seneff, PhD; Danger in the Dough

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Michelle Perro, MD & Stephanie Seneff, PhD; Danger in the DoughHigh Levels of Contaminants Found in Girl Scout CookiesSound the Alarm on the Safety of the Majority of our Food Supply
Michelle Perro, MD, is a veteran pediatrician with over four decades of experience in acute and integrative medicine, co-founder and CEO of GMOScience, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. More than fifteen years ago, Dr. Perro transformed her clinical practice to include the health effects from GMOs and their associated pesticides. She has worked as both Emergency Room Director and Attending Physician from New York’s Metropolitan Hospital/New York Medical college to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland, CA. Dr. Perro has co-authored the highly acclaimed book, What’s Making our Children Sick. Stay tuned for her upcoming book, Making our Children Well, an instructional guidebook for parents on nutrition and homeopathy.
Stephanie Seneff is a senior research scientist at MIT, where she has had continuous affiliation for more than five decades. After receiving four degrees from MIT (B.S., in Biophysics, M.S., E.E., and Ph.D.in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science), she has conducted research in packet-switched networks, computational modeling of the human auditory system, natural language processing, spoken dialogue systems, and second language learning. Currently a Senior Research Scientist (MIT’s highest research rank) at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, she has supervised 21 Master’s and 14 Ph.D. students. For over a decade, since 2008, she has directed her attention towards the role of nutrition and environmental toxicants on human disease, with a special emphasis on the herbicide glyphosate and the mineral sulfur.  LINKS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST READ the article DANGER IN THE DOUGH WATCH the film The Need to Grow MARION NESTLE blog Most enlightening report of the week: GAO on infant formula Make your own Girl Scout-style cookies with organic ingredients. Below are our vegan and gluten free recipes. 
Chocolate Dipped Mint Chocolate Cookies: Gluten-Free
 
Peanut Butter Sandwich Cookies
Coconut Caramel Chocolate Dipped Cookies: Gluten-Free

It’s All About Food - Nicola Twilley, Frostbite

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Nicola Twilley, FrostbiteNicola Twilley* is author of Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves (Penguin Press, June 2024), and co-host of the award-winning Gastropod podcast, which looks at food through the lens of history and science, and which is part of the Vox Media Podcast Network in partnership with Eater. Her first book, Until Proven Safe: The History and Future of Quarantine, was co-authored with Geoff Manaugh and was named one of the best books of 2021 by Time Magazine, NPR, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and the author of Edible Geography. She lives in Los Angeles.