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First Aired - 02/10/2010 05:00PM
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What's happening to our farmland in NY? New York Director of The American Farmland Trust David Haight tells us on today's Heritage Report.
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The Heritage Report Introduction (10:04)
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Jack Inslee, Heather Hyman, Heritage Foods USA, Patrick Martins, David Haight, American Farmland Trust, The Heritage Report, Saratoga Springs, national membership organization, started 30 years ago, Peggy Rockefella, from the kitchen table to the congress, farmers, land owners, protecting land, local government, good guy lobbyists, Albany, Washington DC, what is considered to be farmland, urban garden, farm field, orchard land, pasture, livestock, land resources, food supply, a million acres of farmland are developed each year in America, there is a farm developed every three days in New York, three of the most threatened farm regions in the country are here in New York state, Long Island east end, rich soil, productive farms, how many people can we feed?, our seven million acres of farmland can feed 6 million people, it's a difficult farm economy right now, farm economics, you can make more money selling your land than growing crops, rooftop garden, urban gardening, Cornell University, community garden, where will we grow our food in the future, homegrown food supply, Roberta's,Governor Paterson's Proposed Budget Cuts (9:51)
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New York Director, American Farmland Trust, who's taking the farmland?, residential development, he has proposed 130 billion dollar state budget, budget cuts, Farmland Protection Program has had its funding cut in half, farmers markets, Farmers Market Grants have had funding completely eliminated, water, more than half of New Yorkers get their drinking water from an unfiltered water source, upstate New York, investing in food processing infrastructure, from the field to your fork, slaughterhouses, trucking, sales, www.farmland.org/newyork, Union Square, small grants have a broad impact, agriculture development, job loss, health care, Governor Paterson,A Letter To Governer Paterson and A Rally At The Capital on March 15th", (9:16)
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wetlands preserve, you need to invest in our farms!, New Yorkers need access to nutritious food, rally on March 15th at the state capital in Albany, Just Food, buy local, go to www.farmland.org/newyork for more information, transportation, school lunch quality, soup kitchens, institutional food purchasing, public dollars, write your local government, elected officials, Albany, Washington, watershed, letter to Governor Paterson,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 07/19/2009 02:00PM
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Patrick Martins interviews Christopher Carpenter, chairman of the board for Slow Food USA.
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Patrick Interviews Christopher Carpenter (4:10)
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Slow Food USA, Christopher Carpenter, school lunches, children's diet, Napa Valley, Childhood Nutrition Act is up for reauthorization in Congress this October, nutritional guidelines, health care, causality rather than reaction, 1 in 3 kids are in danger of having childhood obesity, 1 in 4 children are in danger of contracting diabetes, eat in based on the 1960s model of a sit in, drawing attention to a national issue to create local action, all politics are local, local issues, local farmers, helping schools create a community where everybody wins, improving school food, saving money on health care by preventative measures in school,Napa Valley Convivium (3:40)
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Napa Valley Convivium, school system paired with Meadow Ranch, all food served to the kids are from the ranch, traceability, sustainability, connection with communities, creating a roundtable around that model, Napa Valley Unified School District, childhood obesity coalition, improving the health care system, we often deal with issues after they have happened in this country,The Fighting Illini & The Story of Chris Carpenter (5:47)
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Chris was a defensive lineman for the Fighting Illini, University of Illinois, Chris was a bartender, winemaker, teaching children about what farmers do on a local basis to create sustainable systems, industrialized foods, some parents don't have time to cook meals, garden, fruit, most scohols in Napa Valley have some sort of garden program, gopher snakes, idealic situation, financial issues create challanges in this system, local politicians, educating parents, McDonalds,The State Of Slow Food (3:12)
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Slow Food, national day of action, activist oriented, how are we feeding our country?, environmental impact of the agricultural world, drawing attention to issues, similar to the Sierra Club, Josh Viertel, Patrick Martins was the first executive director for Slow Food, name recognition of Slow Food in the US, the slide whistle, remotivated staff,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/19/2010 12:00PM
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This week on The Main Course Patrick and Katie have a deep, engaging conversation about the role of the rancher in our food system with Bill Bullard of the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund. Bill works with R-CALF, a non-profit organization, to make sure farmers and ranchers own their livestock--NOT the meat packers, who often push for lower wages and lower quality. The lauded food author and journalist Peter Kaminsky then joins the conversation to talk about "culinary intelligence" and what kinds of meals the food culture in America encourages us to eat. This episode was sponsored by Whole Foods Market.
Photo 1: Bill Bullard, President of RCALF-USA, Photo 2: Peter Kaminsky
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The Main Course Introducution (8:52)
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The Main Course, Heritage Radio Network, Patrick Martins, Katy Keiffer, Whole Foods Market, NYC Craft Beer Week, Heritage Party September 25th, RSVP to 718-398-0985, Joao Carlos Martins, tonight at Avery Fischer Hall 6PM,Bill Bullard of RCALF USA (19:24)
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Bill Bullard, Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, national trade association that represents and protects the interests of farmers and ranchers raising cattle, US cattle industry, 753,000 independent farmers and ranchers, live cattle industry generates 50 billion dollars a year, we've lost 30,000 feed lots in the past 14 years, 4 meat packers slaughter 85 percent of all cattle, cattle herd sizes have been liquidated, we have been losing 11,000 cattle ranchers per year, we have entered into the era of market dominance and abusive market power, meat packers pay cattle prices below what a competitive market would establish, there are two products produced from live cattle: raw product and value added products, confined area feeding operations, environmental costs, 24 million head of cattle slaughtered a year, RCALF,GIPSA Rules & Protecting Diversity in the Cattle Market (32:16)
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GIPSA rules, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, American Meat Institute, National Cattlemen's Beef Association, has meat packers seated on the board, banning packer to packer sales, Packers and Stockyards Act, protections against unfair trade practices of meatpackers, Sherman Antitrust Act, preventing monopolies, 2008 Farm Bill, summit meeting in Fort Collins Colorado, Tom Vilsack, next farm bill could reach Congress in 2012, deceptive practice, market access risk, how commodity pricing is defined, the industry cannot respond to changes in price and demand, using import to meet demand, Mad Cow Disease, US International Trade Commission, farm elasticity, JBS is the worlds largest beef packer, Australian Beef Association, vertical integration, World Trade Organization, US has relaxed import standards, began in 1994, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, country of origin labeling, www.r-calfusa.com,Peter Kaminksy on Culinary Intelligence (28:37)
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Peter Kaminsky, culinary intelligence, pleasure as a guide, flavors, many things we find delicious are corrupt, decomposed milk, fermented grapes, Harold McGee, corruption, tobacco, chocolate, our food culture only encourages us towards sugar salt and fat, end of the season tomatoes are incredible, every natural food has a season, meat needs to pass the who cares test, it has to taste great, there are more overweight people in India than there are people in the US, international obesity, nutrition transition, refined flour and refined sugar are the two worst items, wonder bread, candy bars, stay away from juice without pulp, pulp makes you synthesize more slowly, Aero Late using skim milk, restaurants load up on butter and salt, Little Italy, Peter is against Fernet Branca, next week is the Heritage Party!,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
