Feast of the Feminine is a collaboration between artist Kel Mur and chefs Francesca Hong and Autumn Fearing. This is a seasonal, locally sourced menu representing the main nutritional components of menstruation: protein, iron, calcium, phosphate, chloride, sodium, and nitrogen. This event overlaps the concept of the body cycle with the cycle of the harvest […]
Split Show: Factory Farming and Prison Food
For today’s episode, Patty kicks off a seasonal series about all things food. First, she revisits the issue of CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations) with Matt Wechsler, director of the documentary film The Right to Harm, about the public health impacts of factory farming. There is a free screening of the film on Wednesday, October […]
The History of Food Safety with Deborah Blum
Why did USDA commissioner Harvey Washington Wiley poison his coworkers? Believe it or not, this isn’t the start of a murder mystery but rather a story about the history of food safety in the United States. Wiley assembled this “poison squad” to test the health effects of new additives to food in the late 19th […]
A Close Look at CAFOs
Do you shop for groceries? Do you like spending times on Wisconsin’s lakes and rivers? Do you or your family live in a rural community? If so, you’re affected by Wisconsin’s concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs). CAFOs are facilities hosting one type of livestock animal such as dairy cows, beef cattle, pigs, goats, chickens, or […]
Living in a Plastic World
Plastic is all around us: our electronics, our furniture, our clothes, our shoes—and even our food. It’s hard to imagine a world without plastic. So what do we do with all of it? On today’s show, we take a closer look at plastic through the lens of culture, health, and the environment with scholar and […]
Women in Agriculture with the Soil Sisters
Today’s episode is a celebration of women in farming! Patty sits down with Bethany Storm, April Prusia, and Betty Anderson of Soil Sisters, a Wisconsin-based collective of women farmers focused on sustainable agriculture. They talk about their upcoming three-day event and answer listener calls about private and mobile butchering services, apprentice programs at local colleges, […]
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