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First Aired - 05/03/2012 01:00PM
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This week on The Farm Report, Erin Fairbanks is talking with Mircha King of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives about the Pigford case- a class action lawsuit alleging racial discrimination on the part of the USDA concerning the distribution of loans and credits. Tune in to hear Mircha and Erin discuss the roots of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives in the Civil Rights Movement, the history and intricacies of the Pigford case, and the changes that black farmers see twenty years after the case. To learn more about the Pigford case, visit BlackFarmerCase.com. This episode has been brought to you by Fairway Market.
"What these lawsuits had asserted that the United States Department of Agriculture had systematically discriminated against African American farmers on the basis of race, which violates the 5th Amendment."
"Before Reagan left office, one of the things that he did was terminate the office of civil rights for the U.S.D.A... So for years there were stacks of boxes and boxes with claims of discrimination that no one even touched."
"We have all of these discrimination claims- we have black farmers, Native American farmers, women farmers, Hispanic farmers- and he [Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture] made a personal commitment to settle these claims."
-- Mircha King on The Farm Report
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The Pigford Case (19:23)
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Mercha King, The Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Civil Rights Movement, Alabama, Montgomery, Selma, black agrarian, Pigford Case, community organizing, cooperative farming, USDA, African American farmers, 5th Amendment, Glickman, hurricanes, credit, agriculture, Bill Clinton, Reagan, hunger relief, agricultural policy, race, loans, racism, discrimination, class action lawsuit, money, attorneys, funding, reimburse,The Census, New Farmer Development, and More (13:13)
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lawsuit, petition, Judge Freeman, black farmers, claimant, census of agriculture, black farm operators, internet access, email, U.S. government, Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, new farmer development, crops, county, cattle, www.blackfarmercase.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/30/2012 01:00PM
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Jean Halloran rejoins Katy Keiffer on this week's installment of Straight, No Chaser. Jean has worked on food safety and sustainability issues at in the Yonkers Office of Consumers Union for the last 25 years, and also works with consumer organizations globally. She helped develop international standards for safety assessment of genetically engineered food at the Codex Alimentarius Commission. Once again, Katy and Jean are talking about antibiotic usage in meat production. Recently, Consumers Union has urged Trader Joe's to stop selling antibiotic-laden meat with a petition of 557,772 signatures from consumers. Learn more about the campaign and its outcome on this episode. Later, Katy and Jean talk about MRSA in pork, and other forms of resistant bacteria. How do antibiotics in meat affect antibiotic resistance in hospitals and medical treatment? Find out on this week's Straight, No Chaser! This episode has been sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
"MRSA has become disturbingly common in hog production and among hog workers. How it got there, we're not exactly sure...but there is evidence of Staph Aureus at a very low level in about half of the samples they [Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy] looked at. About 6 percent was antibiotic-resistant MRSA."
"The treatment of sick animals accounts for only 5% of antibiotic use as indicated by how many animals are injected with antibiotics. The remaining percentage of usage has been traditionally thought to be for growth promotion, although now they are calling it disease prevention..."
"'Natural' has nothing to do with how the animal was raised. 'Natural' only means that there was no coloring added to the meat after slaughter." -- Jean Halloran on Straight, No Chaser
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Get Me Off Drugs (18:08)
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Jean Halloran, antibiotics, Consumers Union, livestock, Trader Joe's, antibiotic-free meat, progressive image, sustainable, non-GMO, sustainably-caught fish, Whole Foods, Change.org, petition, MRSA, pig brains, antibiotic resistance, hogs, grocery stores, restaurant chains, slaughter facilities, Temple Grandin, Cargill, FDA, veterinary drugs, penicillin, Hormel, growth promotion, disease prevention, National Beef, ractopamine, superbugs,Misleading Labeling (12:32)
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Consumer Report, industrial food, anti-biotic free, natural, standardized labeling, salmonella, ground turkey, food poisoning, resistant bacteria, pneumonia, hospital, intestinal, the livestock industry, Doug Powell, the Barf Blog, global food supply, pathogens, organic, antibiotic development, bread mold, notinmyfood.org, meatwithoutdrugs.org,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 03/15/2010 03:30PM
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Daniel Bowman Simon of The Who Farm & The People's Garden NYC is this week's guest on Hot Grease. Check out http://peoplesgardennyc.org for more information
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Hot Grease Introduction: A Vegetable Garden At City Hall (11:18)
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Nicole Taylor, Hot Grease, Hearst Ranch, Heritage Radio Network, Daniel Bowman Simon, The People's Garden NYC, NYC Petition for a vegetable garden at City Hall, www.danielbowmansimon.com, there is a lot of uncultivated space that could be put to use at City Hall, peoplesgardennyc.org, a series of raised beds in front of city hall, kids learning about how to grow food, adding life to city hall, Will Alllen, the mayor of Milwaukee, Sam Adams, Portland Oregon, home garden at City Hall, Kingston, Baltimore, storm water, Parks Department, if we can't put a garden at City Hall the terrorists have won,The Who Farm Project & Children's Roles in the Food Revolution (11:48)
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www.thewhofarm.org, The Who Farm, White House, Barack Obama, Obama administration, Alice Waters, The White House Organic Farm Project, Thomas Jefferson envisioned food growing at The White House, Slow Food Nation, kids understand this, The Simpsons, rooftop garden, Roberta's, TheWhoFarmMobile is two school buses fused together with an organic edible garden on the roof, urban agriculture, food revolution, school garden projects, Automotive High School, Williamsburg, Bedford Ave, McKarren Park, these kids are selling their greens to Urban Rustic, gardening can be profitable, Michelle Obama, Harry Truman, childhood obesity, Bancroft Elementary School,The Hot 5 With Daniel Bowman Simon (8:26)
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Jack Inslee, Hearst Ranch, shipping containers, The Hot Five, 5. Birdbath Bakery, 13th street and Ave A, cargo bicycle that they use to move stuff between locations, human powered transportation, City Harvest, 4. Cathy Erway's The Art of Eating In, 3. What's On Your Plate, investigative journalism, 2. edible landscapes and gardens, 1. Children's Gardens: For Pleasure Health & Education,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
