578. John Boyd, Jr. on the Fight for the Future of American Agriculture

578. John Boyd, Jr. on the Fight for the Futu...

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577. Ebola in Kenya, the Power of Farmers' Cooperatives, and Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian on the Promise of Food is Medicine

On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian, a cardiologist and Director of the Food is Medicine Institute at Tufts University, about his new book Food Is Medicine: Healing Our Bodies, Nourishing Our Minds and Transforming Our Food System. They dis ...  Show more

576. A New Approach to Childhood Obesity, Food Worker Exploitation, and Cat Oakar on Farmers Markets as Community Infrastructure

On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with Catherine Oakar, Executive Director of FRESHFARM. They talk about the mounting pressure eaters face after federal funding cuts, how farmers markets serve as community gathering spaces and economic engines, and why supporting our ...  Show more

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