Congratulations to Erica Wides; it's the one year anniversary of Let's Get Real! More importantly, it's the "I Told You Show", and Erica's here with the Foodiness Time Machine to take you back in time to show you that all of her food predictions have come true. Learn that the dietary saturated fat in butter does not actually contribute to coronary disease, but that foodiness is the real culprit! Erica also revisits the fitness foodiness fad, and finds further evidence that protein shakes don't help you "perform" better. Erica also talks about genetically modified apples that take 3 weeks to brown, as well as the benefits of real fermented foods. Would you believe that foodiness has been linked to diabetes, Alzheimer's, and even stupidity? Tune in and get educated on this very special episode of Let's Get Real! This program has been brought to you by Cain Vineyard & Winery.

"Foodiness has retrained us to mistrust our senses!"

"Fermentation is food that's slowly going bad. Isn't that what I said? You're supposed to eat food that goes bad."

-- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real

This week on Let's Get Real, Erica Wides "celebrates" Columbus Day by talking about the modern day Columbian Exchange: foodiness. Instead of smallpox, we have diabetes. Leave it to the Europeans to take corn from Native Americans and turn it into high fructose corn syrup and pour it down the throats of the masses! Tune into this episode to hear Erica Wides talk about her experiences taking food science classes, and how she felt she was being primed to be a secret agent for Foodiness, Inc. Hear about some of the wacky food inventions that Erica encountered such as pre-flavored grilling skewers or spinach powder. Look out! You almost fell down the foodiness rabbit hole! Check out this episode of Let's Get Real! This episode has been brought to you by S. Wallace Edwards & Sons.

"The foodiness megacorporations are all on the prowl and they're all looking for real chefs these days because they want chefs to help them make foodiness that looks more like real food." [22:09] -- Erica Wides on Let's Get Real

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