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First Aired - 05/14/2013 06:30PM
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Foodiness diet products are just that- foodiness! This week on Let's Get Real, Erica Wides is taking on supposed 'diet foods', and telling you why it's best to just eat real food. Find out why butter is on trial in New York City schools despite its health benefits. Hear about low-calorie yogurt and fat-reduced cheese, and why these won't help your waistline, but actually hurt it. Why do Americans trust corporations as opposed to historical health evidence? Erica challenges the idea of 'diet water'; why does water need to be 'diet' even though it already doesn't contain calories or fat? Hear about Americans' sweetness addictions, and how we can all escape the 'foodiness rabbit hole' with the aid of a simple carrot. This episode has been sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery. Thanks to Obey City for today's musical selection.
"Foodiness makes people fat, then provides them with a falsely-advertised product to fix the problem." [14:10]
"This isn't the Third World; we have free clean drinking water, and two-thirds of the world doesn't have that." [22:45]
-- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real
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First Aired - 01/30/2013 05:00PM
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As the son of displaced farmers, Michel Nischan, CEO, Founder and President of Wholesome Wave, grew up with a great appreciation for local agriculture and those who work the land. He translated these childhood values into a career as a James Beard Award-winning chef, author and restaurateur, becoming a catalyst for change in the sustainable food movement. This week on "the business of The Business", Phil Colicchio sits down with Michel and picks his brain for a lively, insightful, and entertaining conversation. Learn about the history of the "farm to table" movement and how far we've come as a nation when it comes to the way we feed our population. This program was sponsored by The International Culinary Center.
"I was doing the whole farm to table thing in the 1980's in Milwaukee, WI. At that time, if you told somebody that you and your sous chef drove out to get roadside asparagus with a pig in the back of your van, [customers] wouldn't want to eat it. If you were doing farm to table, you were just weird!" [08:00]
"There are 50 million people that are so food insecure that they don't have money for food that allows them to live a healthy lifestyle. 1 in 4 children are living in poverty in this country." [21:00]
"Subsidies that go to processed food and big ag support the type of mechanization that actually eliminates jobs." " [28:00]
--Michel Nischan on "the business of The Business"
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First Aired - 04/22/2012 01:00PM
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This week on Straight, No Chaser, Katy Keiffer is joined by Michael Hurwitz, Executive Director of Greenmarket NYC and Stacy Miller, Executive Director of The Farmers Market Coalition. Together they discuss the current state of farmers markets and how the recent growth of these markets has impacted urban life. Find out more about how immigrant populations are being considered at farmers markets and cultural gaps are being bridged through communities. Learn about everything involved in getting food from our farms to our tables. This program was sponsored by Fairway Market.
"More and more farmers are realizing that the industrial system is not working for them. 90% of our farmers would not be in production if they didn't have the ability to sell directly to consumers."
--Michael Hurwitz, Executive Director of Greenmarket NYC on Straight, No Chaser
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