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S2E16 The Behemoths Lurking in the Grocery Aisles
Episode 31 of Unconfined, in which, Managing Attorney of the Antimonopoly Counsel, Basel Musharbash makes the case that the companies that dominate our food and agriculture system have gotten too big…
S2E16 Fight the Power
Episode 30 of Unconfined, in which journalist Ted Genoways recounts the unlikely story of how some of the world's most vulnerable people took on a giant meatpacking company in Greeley, Colorado.
S2E16 Disruption in Minnesota
Episode 29 of Unconfined, in which poultry rancher Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin reflects on the intersection of the food system and federal immigration enforcement.
S2E15 The Corn Belt's Tragic Legacy
Episode 28 of Unconfined, in which journalist Tom Philpott reflects on a story he wrote about cancer rates in Iowa.
S2E15 These Are Your Dietary Guidelines on MAHA
Episode 27 of Unconfined, in which a CLF dietary maven and a CLF policy wonk deliver the goods on RFK Jr.'s new dietary guidelines
S2E14 Calling BS on poop gas
In this episode of Unconfined, Brent Kim breaks down the pros (meh) and cons (many) of manure digesters and the expanding biogas industry, which has been billed as a climate solution, and to which…
S2E16 This Is Your Farm on Forever Chemicals
In this episode of Unconfined, author Mariah Blake and former organic farmer Adam Nordell tell the dark tale of how the highly toxic, long-lived class of chemicals called PFAS made their way from…
S2E14 The Dish on MAHA and Food
In this episode of Unconfined, reporter Helena Bottemiller Evich and Theodore Ross of the Food and Environment Reporting Network, co-hosts of Forked podcast, tease out the contradictions and…
S2E15 Soil Microbes Matter
In this episode of Unconfined, Leo Horrigan tells us about his new book and all the ways we could use microbes to regenerate healthy soil, sink carbon, and grow more nutritious crops.
S2E14 Landing Young People
In this episode of Unconfined, Michelle Hughes despairs over federal funding freezes for land- access programs and rebounds with an optimistic vision for the long-term future in which young farmers…
S2E12 Land's End
In this episode of Unconfined, author Michael Grunwald and host Tom Philpott grapple with the future of food in a warming world.
S2E13 Black to the Land
In this episode of Unconfined, author Brea Baker teases out the 20th century's great dispossession of Black farmers, and reports on a budding revival of African-American agrarianism.
S2E8 The Land Owns Us
In this episode of Unconfined, James Skeet waxes philosophical on European-style, settler-oriented, colonialism-informed agriculture and re-imagines an agricultural practice that relies instead on…
S2E5 Monopoly Money: On the Iowa Hog Barons Behind Your Bacon
In this episode of Unconfined, author Austin Frerick discusses the barons who dominate US food production, including an Iowa farm couple who spun enormous, manure-spewing hog operations into a vast…
S2E3 Confused by Nutrition Research? Blame Big Food
In this episode of Unconfined, Marion Nestle reveals the food industry's recipe for cooking up academic nutrition research that serves its interests—not yours.
S2E2 Is Animal Agriculture Contributing to Bird Flu Spread?
In this episode of Unconfined, two leading experts, Meghan Davis and Erin Sorrell, take us from farming communities to policy circles to explain how bird flu spreads, who is at risk, and what we can…
S2E1 What Trump II Means for Our Food
In this episode of Unconfined, three experts help us sort through the new administration's agenda and try to figure out what it all might mean for food policy. Claire Kelloway, program manager for…
S1E13 A People's Scientist Meets a Tiny Fish
In this episode of Unconfined, World Food Prize winner Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted explains how biodiversity, local resources, and saying "no" to pricy pesticides helped cut childhood hunger in…
S1E13 The Weird, Beautiful Oyster
In this episode of Unconfined, Dave Love explains oyster farming, why it's impossible to industrialize it, and how oysters offer benefits ranging from amino acids to storm surge buffers.
S1E12 Abundant Salmon, Troubled Waters
In this episode of Unconfined, veteran journalists Douglas Frantz and Catharine Collins expose what lies beneath those rosy salmon filets that grace our supermarket seafood cases.
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Unconfined has published 33 episodes since November 2023, covering topics in Education, Science.
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