On this installment of It's More Than Food, Michel Nischan is talking genetically-modified crops with Scott Faber and Fred Kaufman. Scott Faber leads a team working to improve food and farm legislation, chemicals policy and a host of other issues important to EWG and its supporters. Prior to joining EWG, Scott was vice president for federal affairs for the Grocery Manufacturers Association, where he spearheaded efforts to enact the Food Safety Modernization Act, which sets new food safety standards for food manufacturers and farmers. From 2000 to 2007, he was a food and farm policy campaign manager for the Environmental Defense Fund, leading efforts to reform farm policies in the 2002 and 2008 farm bills. From 1993 to 2000, Scott was a senior director for public policy for American Rivers. A native of Massachusetts, Scott holds a J.D. From Georgetown University Law Center and lives in Washington, D.C. Frederick Kaufman, author of Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being, has discussed food policy on NBC and MSNBC, Fox Business News, Bloomberg TV, C-SPAN, National Public Radio, and the BBC World Service. A contributing editor at Harper's Magazine, Kaufman's work has also appeared in Scientific American, Nature, Popular Science, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The New Yorker, Foreign Policy, Gourmet, Saveur, Slate, and Wired. He is Professor of English and Journalism at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and has spoken at the American Museum of Natural History, the New York Public Library, Yale Sustainable Food, Harvard Law School, and the General Assembly of the United Nations. Find out why the panel believes in labeling for genetically-engineered foods, and why old patent laws are threatening the inherent open-source nature of agriculture. Will labeling of genetically-modified food products actually benefit the health of the public? Find out on this installment of It's More Than Food!

"You don't have to be anti-GMO to be pro-labeling. Many people are pro-GMO are also pro-labeling because they believe that people have a basic right to know what's in their food." [4:30]

"Conventional breeding has produced as many breakthroughs as genetic modification." [20:20]

-- Scott Faber on It's More Than Food

"I'm all for labeling, and I'm all for transparency, but I don't believe that it's going to be the most efficient way to achieve the most important aims of the food movement, which is trying to dent the ownership of the world's food source by these huge transnational players." [10:40]

-- Fred Kaufman on It's More Than Food

On this week's installment of Let's Eat In, Cathy Erway is joined in the studio by Nicole J. Caruth of With Food in Mind, an organization driven to educate about food through the arts. Listen in to Nicole talk about her background in the art world, and why so many contemporary artists choose food as their muse. Hear about some artists that have used food and art as a means to create social change. How have iPhones changed the art of food photography? Later, Nicole and Cathy talk about With Food in Mind's after-school program launch, and what it means for black and Latino children in New York City. Tune in to hear discussions about freeganism, as well as Let's Eat In's signature date meal question. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch.

"When people think of dumpster diving, they think of food that has rotted already. A lot of times grocery stores and restaurants are required to throw out food that is perfectly fine to consume." -- Nicole J. Caruth on Let's Eat In

On this episode of Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne is talking suburbia, oil, and energy with two call-in guests. James Howard Kunstler is a public speaker, critic, and author of Too Much Magic, a book about limited oil and a reversion to smaller-scale, agriculture-based living. Duo Dickinson, a frequent guest on Burning Down the House, is an architect specializing in designing residences in urban, suburban, and exurban areas. Tune in to hear discussions about how trends in transportation have affected the landscapes we inhabit, food security, and our supply of natural resources. Hear about how a desire for "country-living" built the suburbs. Has the rate of human technological innovation ultimately doomed the species? Find out this and more on Burning Down the House! This episode has been brought to you by S. Wallace Edwards and Sons.

"What you finally get when the suburban experience reaches full flower is a cartoon version of country house in a cartoon version of the country." -- James Howard Kunstler on Burning Down the House

"Most people want an individuated place that reflects their values, and the easiest way to do is by having a blank palette, a piece of dirt, and an object in it that you inhabit. And that is the easiest way to control that micro-environment." -- Duo Dickinson on Burning Down the House