http://www.thepoliticsoffood.com/ From Fascism to Flan en-us Copyright 2005 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:45:00 -0800 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:45:00 -0800 http://www.stationware.com/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss joy@kuci.org Joy Hought The Politics of Food From Fascism to Flan ( KUCI 88.9fm in Irvine ) joy@kuci.org Arts > Food University of Guelph student Wilfird Macenzie talks about his upbringing on an Ontario farm and his motivation for a degree in organic agriculture. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Wilfird%20Macenzie.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Wilfird%20Macenzie.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:45:00 -0800 25-years in the making, the University of Guelph, Ontario, now hosts North America's first undergraduate degree program in Organic Agriculture. We talk to co-chair Dr. Ann Clark about her vision for the program. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Ann%20Clark.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Ann%20Clark.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:00:00 -0800 LA's now-infamous South Central Farm was leveled last June after a corrupt real estate deal, sending 350 familes to farm elsewhere. SCF's Tezozomoc tells us what they've learned from the ordeal and where they're going from here. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/s%20central%20update.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/s%20central%20update.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:00:00 -0800 PuraMaize is the commercial name of a corn that contains a gene that keeps it from pollinating with its own kind. Journalist Lisa Hamilton of the Nation magazine; Frank Kutka, University of North Dakota plant breeder, and Indian corn farmer Troy Rousch join us to discuss whether this is a boon for consumers and for organic farmers who want to shield their crops from genetic contamination, and who will benefit now that it has been patented. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/puramaize.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/puramaize.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:00:00 -0800 Consumers may think they're buying a happier farm worker with their organic dollars, but journalist Felicia Mello looks behind the scenes to find that conditions on many modern "organic" farms look a lot like conventional, industrial farms, complete with ailing, underpaid workers. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/fmello.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/fmello.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Legendary New York poet Sparrow offers recipes for kite soup, cooking with ice, levitation and a lot more. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/sparrow.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/sparrow.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Joseph Purugganan. Research Associate for Focus on the Global South — which works mainly on the issue of international trade — and Coordinator of the Stop the New Round Coalition-Philippines discusses the Phillippines reaction to the Doha talks. Stop the New Round (SNR) is a broad multi-sectoral coalition of around 40 national organizations of farmers, fishers, workers, NGOs, and individuals campaigning against the Doha Round of the WTO and other free trade agreements. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Purugganan.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Purugganan.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:45:00 -0800 RESURRECTING TRADE Already there is pressure to restart the WTO agricultural trade talks that failed in Doha in July. Will they resume with the same old agenda - maximizing market access and protecting intellectual property rights for transnational corporations, while poor countries and small farmers get the shaft? Carin Smaller, director of Trade Information Project, will join us to talk about alternative trade policies based on human rights, and why the WTO may be weakened enough to pursue them. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/smaller.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/smaller.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 17 Aug 2006 09:15:00 -0800 UNTOUCHABLES China’s Xi-an province is home to 30,000 Chinese Muslims, the Hui. The Hui do not eat pork. Not only do they not eat pork, their lips do not even come near the bowls of someone who does, and they must carefully avoid sharing food with the majority Chinese. Anthropologist Maris Gillette will talk about how strict ideas of cleanliness give the Hui an ethnic identity — one that is changing thanks to the influx of Western, factory-made food. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/gillette.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/gillette.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 10 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0800 THE SLOW DEATH OF DOHA Faced with the suspension of the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Round, the world's multilateral food trading system today stands at a crossroads. Member nations can either retreat to protectionism, leavened by a series of competitive bilateral trade deals, or they can cling to the waning mandate of liberal free trade, slash subsidies and tariffs, and then watch the money roll in. Journalist Keith Nuthall reports. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/nuthall.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/nuthall.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 03 Aug 2006 09:00:00 -0800 An interview with Bernice Hurst, Managing Director of Fine Food Network. Soaring child obesity rates are forcing food manufacturers to back away from TV advertising. So isn’t it a trifle absurd that so many of the big guns are investing heavily in websites where children sit in front of a computer screen playing games instead? Hurst suspects bad faith. The internet puts the lie to food companies’ exhortations that children do not get fat from looking at advertisements or being influenced to eat vast quantities of their products but because they do not do enough exercise. Just as manufacturers seem to be agreeing that the door to television advertising of junk food to kids should close, at least part way, the door to targeting children through websites is wedged firmly open. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/bernice.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/bernice.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Dolphin-safe tuna, tuna-safe shrimp, and mercury in everything. Henry Lovejoy, founder of EcoFish, will explain what's left in the ocean to eat. Established in 1999, Ecofish provides only the most sustainable, highest quality, healthiest seafood, and helps support sustainable fisheries (wild & aquaculture) and their communities. Their goal is to reverse the decline of marine bio-diversity by encouraging a shift in consumer demand away from over-exploited fisheries. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/lovejoy.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/lovejoy.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 20 Jul 2006 09:00:00 -0800 RUM As Ian Williams writes, "Rum and revolution have been associated together for centuries. Rum is 'the global spirit with its warm beating heart in the Caribbean,' the one factor that is shared by all the cultures of the region, and enthusiastically drunk by the descendants of those who were enslaved to produce it. Williams. who regularly contributes to the Nation, China Economic Review, Investor Relations Magazine, Salon, and Asia Times — and was twice President of the United Nations Correspondents Association — will discuss his book Rum: A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/pof7_13_06%201.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/pof7_13_06%201.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:00:00 -0800 THE ROMANCES OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS An interview with Norman C. Ellstrand, Professor of Genetics at the University of California Riverside and author of Dangerous Liaisons? When Cultivated Plants Mate with Their Wild Relatives. "Everyone interested in the effects of cropping on plant biodioversity . . . and the risks of GM crops should read this book," raved Nature magazine. With the advent of genetic engineering, "designer" crops might interbreed with natural populations. Could such romances lead to the evolution of "superweeds", as some have suggested? Ellstrand examines this and other questions. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/ellstrand.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/ellstrand.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:00:00 -0800 GREEN TO THE GILLS ­ What could be right about farming enough wild fish to feed millions? Paul Greenberg went to Tromso, Norway, to report on a selective breeding program that aims to create an entirely new race of cod, and explore whether fish could be mass-produced in an environmentally benign fashion. If the National Offshore Aquaculture Act is approved, the U.S. could begin farm-raising fish on an industrial scale to compete with overseas efforts. As Greenberg notes, selective breeding is bound to bring a sea-change in not only the integrity of our food, but the nature of the ocean. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/greenberg.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/greenberg.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 22 Jun 2006 09:00:00 -0800 The American garden is often presented as the province of white privilege. Yet for poor immigrants, the garden is a bounty of culture and memory. Patricia Klindienst shares stories from her new book, "The Earth Knows My Name." http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/klindienst2.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/klindienst2.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:30:00 -0800 Ruhan Kainth of Fullerton, whose Punjabi garden is featured in Patricia Klindienst's book, "The Earth Knows My Name," discusses the joys of the soil. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/ruhan.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/ruhan.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 15 Jun 2006 09:00:00 -0800 New York Times reporter Carl Zimmer talks about his latest article, Bacterial Evolution in the Yogurt Ecosystem. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/zimmer.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/zimmer.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:30:00 -0800 Fermentation fetishist Sandor Ellix Katz discusses his book "Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods." http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/sandor.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/sandor.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Tanya Fuqua and Mark Cleveland, proprietors of Costa Mesa's Avanti Cafe, discuss the kitchen philosophy expressed in their flavorfully organic hand-crafted food. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/fuqua.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/fuqua.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:30:00 -0800 An interview with author, locavore, chef, and food activist Jessica Prentice. Using locally grown, humanely raised, nutrient-rich foods and traditional cooking methods, Pentice conjures up a menu based on the thirteen lunar cycles of an agrarian year in her new book Full Moon Feast. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/prentice.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/prentice.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Hospital food getting you down? Soon "hospital food" may no longer mean jello, canned fruit and factory-farmed cuisine. A handful of hospitals around the country are starting to put hormone-free meats, rBGH-free milk, and organic veggies on their bed trays. Scott Exo, executive director of The Food Alliance, discusses how hospitals are greening up their menus. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/exo.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/exo.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 25 May 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Ethicist Peter Singer author of "The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter" discusses how we can eat more healthfully and humanely. Rancher Frank Fitzpatrick talks about the advantages of grass-fed beef. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/singer_fitzpatrick.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/singer_fitzpatrick.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 18 May 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Dale Allen Pfeiffer, novelist, science journalist and geologist discusses his groundbreaking article and new book of the same name “Eating Fossil Fuels.” http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/pfeiffer.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/pfeiffer.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 27 Apr 2006 09:00:00 -0800 "Why have we tamed the history of gardening in America?" Patricia Klindienst asks in her new book "The Earth Knows My Name." We are a democracy of gardeners yet, with few exceptions, the garden is presented as the province of white privileged. As a result, the idea of the garden has been stripped of its cultural weight. "The Earth Knows My Name" speaks directly to this gap in our understanding, exploring the deeper implications of what it means to cultivate a garden and to grow your own food. Klindienst is a University of Connecticut certified master gardener and an award-winning writing teacher. She lives and gardens in Guilford, Connecticut and teaches creative writing at Yale University each summer. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/klindienst.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/klindienst.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Michael Pollan, director of the Knight Program in Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley and author of the New York Times Bestseller, "The Botany of Desire" discusses his new book "The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals." http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/pollan.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/pollan.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 13 Apr 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Sweet Poison? Aspartame, the artificial, non-carbohydrate sweetener marketed under a number of trademark names, including NutraSweet, Equal, and CANDEREL, is an ingredient in approximately 5,000 foods and beverages worldwide. But Jim Turner, a partner in the law firm of Swankin & Turner in Washington, DC thinks that may not be such a sweet deal. "There are virtually no studies," Turner says, "that have been done by individuals using resources other than the industry’s that have given a clean bill of health to aspartame." http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/turner.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/turner.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:00:00 -0800 A discussion with Charlotte Casey, a translator for Friends of the MST. Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement, or in Portuguese Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), is the largest social movement in Latin America with an estimated 1.5 million landless members organized in 23 out 27 states. The MST carries out long-overdue land reform in a country mired by unjust land distribution. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/casey.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/casey.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:30:00 -0800 According to UC Berkeley geoengineering professor Tad Patzek, six times more energy is used to make ethanol than the finished fuel actually contains. Patzek discusses the implications — good and bad — of a biofueled future. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/patzek.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/patzek.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:00:00 -0800 A discussion with Fernando Florez from South Central Farmers, a co-op group facing eviction from the 14-acre field they have farmed for the past 13 years — the largest urban farm in the US — in the heart of Los Angeles . http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/flores.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/flores.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Organic farming: A victim of its own success? Ronnie Cummins of the Organic Consumers Association discusses Walmart's plans to expand into the organic food business. Organic food's profit-making potential has earned it a market niche. As a result corporate farms have gone organic, planting organic fields right alongside fields using conventional practices — pesticides and genetically modified seed. And the supersizing doesn't stop there. Federal standards for organic certification favor corporations and are too expensive for the average small farmer to meet. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/cummins.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/cummins.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:00:00 -0800 An interview with Joshua Colangelo-Bryan, an attorney representing the Bahraini prisoners who joined the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay. Over 100 prisoners — some held for four years without seeing the key evidence against them — were engaged in the strike out of desperation. The strike effort came to a near halt after the US military tortured prisoners and began force-feeding them. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Colangelo%20Interview%20mp3.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Colangelo%20Interview%20mp3.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 02 Mar 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Toxicologist Tim Kropp of the Environmental Working Group on the FDA's new designation of food-industry chemical C8 as a "likely carcinogen." Just how likely are You to already have it in your blood? http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Teflon%20Tim.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Teflon%20Tim.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:00:00 -0800 The story of our first artificial sweetener - and Monsanto's first food product - saccharine, and how it came to be so dear to post-war American housewives. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/delaPena.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/delaPena.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Journalist Jon Mooallem tells us what it really takes to slice an apple, and why we no longer want to do so ourselves. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/JonMooallem.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/JonMooallem.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Author Dave DeWitt on the use of this 10,000-yr old pod as an aphrodesiac, beauty aid, and torture device. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/DeWitt.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/DeWitt.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:00:00 -0800 It's been more than a year since the founder of Diedrich Coffee in Irvine left the chain that bears his name. Now, he's back doing what he's always intended to do: Making great coffee for a small community. An interview with coffee guru Martin Diedrich about his new Coffeehouse in Costa Mesa named after his son Kéan. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Martin%20Deitrich.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Martin%20Deitrich.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:30:00 -0800 A talk with Deborah Koons Garcia, director of the recent documentary The Future of Food, about the response to her film by the public and industry scientists, and about truth in filmmaking. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Garcia%20Interview.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Garcia%20Interview.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:30:00 -0800 Guests are Julia Dashe, garden coordinator for the Terra Nova project at Morse High School; Jacky Schaffer, dietician and culinary arts teacher; and Nancy Hughes of San Diego Urban Farms, who is conducting the Morse High Community Food Assessment. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Terra%20Nova.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/Terra%20Nova.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Were we always repulsed by the idea of being fat? Historian Steven Shapin talks gluttony, abundance and the new age of skinny. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/01%20Shapin.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/01%20Shapin.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 02 Feb 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Jordan Sand, professor of Asian Languages at Georgetown University, talks about the introduction of MSG in Japan and the science of food. http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/JordanSand.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/JordanSand.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:00:00 -0800 Jason Godesky of Anthropik.com talks food and culture. Why do we eat what we do? http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/godesky.mp3 http://www.kuci.org/podcastfiles/636/godesky.mp3 Podcasts Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:00:00 -0800