A note from Caroline: Making this podcast is one of my favorite things. But right now, I have to put it on pause to attend to the other parts of my life that require my attention. After this, there will be one more episode.
It's not just time commitments that are causing me to pause the podcast for now. In the process of researching these episodes, I've had many personal revelations and it's fair to say that my viewpoints have changed quite a bit. And that's what today's episode is about. It's about feeling failed by science, and by many of the powerful institutions that frame our lives. And about where I'm looking instead for wisdom.
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How do you know you’re eating sustainably caught fish? Should we be buying fresh or frozen seafood? Is trawling ethical? Farmed salmon is pumped full of what? Today we have Tara Hines, who owns and operates a wild caught Alaskan Salmon business called Sockeye Servings. She and her crew catch salmon in the summer on her boats, and then she returns to Montana in the fall to sell her catch direct to consumer, and Captain Tara is here to answer all these questions and more.
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An interview with the happiest person I know - Sarah Reese. Sarah is my mom (!) and a radically joyful person, whether she’s in the ICU or on a golf course. Nourishment and health mean nothing if we don’t have joy, and today she is going to share her ‘laws of happiness’ to help us cultivate more of it in our own lives.
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Maybe you’ve heard the news. Microplastics are on top of Mount Everest, the bottom of the ocean, in our blood, breastmilk, vital organs, and testicles. They are pervasive and the scope of their effect on our health is only just beginning to be understood. Today’s episode lays out what microplastics (and nanoplastics, goodie!) are, where they come from, and what the early science says (it’s not good). Also discussed: small, easy, meaningful actions we can take to minimize our exposure to microplastics in our daily life.
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LINKS:
https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/browse/ingredients/704981-POLYETHYLENE/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/02/28/microplastics-drinking-water/
https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/blog/reduce-laundry-microfiber-pollution/
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-pushing-plastics-on-the-world-.html
https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/microplastics/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microplastics-nanoplastics-heart-attacks-strokes-health
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/29/how-the-fossil-fuel-industry-is-pushing-plastics-on-the-world-.html
The commercial chicken industry is mysterious. It’s tightly controlled by the integrators - these are the companies that own and control the whole system - and it’s shrouded in NDA’s. We rarely get to hear from the actual farmers who raise the chicken. Until today! Esther Sprott, a regenerative and conventional farmer, joins us from Georgia where she and her family raise broiler chickens for a large integrator. Caroline asks Esther all of her burning chicken industry questions, and Esther answers with candor and grace.
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This episode with Dr. Robert Paarlberg mythbusts from start to finish. Everything you think you know about the dirty dozen, food subsidies, the cost of whole food vs processed…just set it to the side because he is here with the data and the nuance that we need to dig deeper. You will especially love his nuance about modern precision agriculture and how we need to stop conflating Big Food with Big Ag. You can break out of your food echo chamber with his latest book, Resetting the Table.
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Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee) is a botanist, a chef, and an advocate for healthy eating and indigenous foods. She joins us today for a conversation about the invisible foods all around us, what it means to re-indigenize our diets, and how food was used as a tool of colonization. We also talk about food sovereignty, the limits of the term ‘food desert,’ and the Irish Potato Famine that wasn’t.
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Caroline tells the story of her home birth, and her journey through the medical system leading up to her crunchy-adjacent birthing experience.
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Today we are diving into some current events, and talking about the farmer protests happening all across Europe. We dig into why and how these farmers are protesting, and what we can take away from these protests here in America.
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Sources:
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/czech-slovak-farmers-block-borders-protest-2024-02-22/
https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/outlooks/40408/30645_wrs0404e_002.pdf
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/europe-farmers-climate-green-protest-eu
https://time.com/6632372/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-brussels/
https://apnews.com/article/eu-farmer-protest-trade-red-tape-710e9bd6c6df6ecd9e598418473604eb
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/world/europe/ukraine-poland-protest-farmers.html
Lily Nichols, RDN, joins us today to turn everything we thought we knew about gestational diabetes (and nutrition in general) upside down. We also cover why we need to get over our fear of salt, fat, and meat when pursuing health. And then we dig into misconceptions around folic acid and B12, and whether eating seafood during pregnancy is safe. Everyone who eats will enjoy this deeply evidence based episode, whether or not you’re pregnant!
Lily’s website & blog
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Today we debunk the claim that cattle “take up so much land.” Or rather, we add heaps of much-needed nuance to it.
The Bloomberg article/map referenced in the episode is here.
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If you’ve ever felt unsettled by buying trend cycles on the internet, or noticed how nothing seems to be made to last anymore, you are definitely not alone. In today’s episode, Caroline discusses her own history with, and current thoughts on, the accumulation of stuff, and how to push back against the urge to consume our way into a more joyful, sustainable life.
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It might sound ridiculously simple, but today’s episode is about the slow shift I’ve made from recipe cooking to pantry cooking, and the joys it’s brought. We talk about how pantry cooking has built fluency in the kitchen, broadened my palette, and increased enjoyment for me in a place where traditionally I didn’t have much. Also discussed: cooking during inflated food costs, how social media has biased us towards ‘sexy’ or ‘trendy’ foods, and how to make our kitchens more functional.
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Lacey Jean is a hide tanner, a butcher, a shepherdess, and a woman who has built a beautiful, rich life out of the ashes of very hard times. She’s on the podcast to talk about food and how she nourishes herself directly from her community, but as with all the best conversations we range far. We talk about resilience, reinvention, taking the life of an animal, and how to respectfully approach mentors that you’d like to learn from. We also cover how to earn your own self respect, and how to chase dreams even - and especially - when no one else is coming to help you get there.
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Lacey Jean is a hide tanner, a butcher, a shepherdess, and a woman who has built a beautiful, rich life out of the ashes of very hard times. She’s on the podcast to talk about food and how she nourishes herself directly from her community, but as with all the best conversations we range far. We talk about resilience, reinvention, taking the life of an animal, and how to respectfully approach mentors that you’d like to learn from. We also cover how to earn your own self respect, and how to chase dreams even - and especially - when no one else is coming to help you get there.
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What’s the deal with grassfed vs grainfed? Are grasslands the most endangered ecosystem? Today we talk with Professor Steve Smith, an Associate Professor of Biology, Field Botany, and Sustainability at the University of Arizona, about what makes grasslands such special and fragile ecosystems, the role of large ruminants on these landscapes, and the precise nature of grazing. Steve also shares his opinions on GMOs, and weighs in on the great grassfed vs grainfed debate.
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We’re joined by professor and air quality specialist Dr. Frank Mitloehner today who comes on to answer all our burning methane questions. He is director of UC Davis’ CLEAR Center, which helps the global community understand the environmental and human health impacts of livestock. What sets Dr. Mitloehner apart is his desire to work with farmers, ranchers, and agribusiness to mitigate emissions from within. On today’s episode we learn how the main greenhouses gasses differ from one another (and why it matters), what “idle cows” and “methane leakage” are, and why calling for developed nations to curb their beef production could be a huge mistake.
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Caroline shares a life update, how she’s thinking about food and nourishment at 21 weeks pregnant, and thoughts on navigating the medical system as someone who is “crunchy adjacent.”
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A personal episode about Caroline’s exploration into intuitive eating over the last year. We start with a reflection on surviving the toxic 1990’s food culture, Caroline talks about how she stopped forcing herself to eat things she didn’t like, and how she slowly got into an unstructured version of intuitive eating.
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Is local honey really local? Store bought honey can be cut with what? And are queens really in charge of the hive? On today’s episode you’ll hear from Beth Couchoud of Honeysuckle Nectary, who brings her passion and knowledge for beekeeping to us, along with heaps of nuance. Today’s episode will have you marveling at the magic of honeybees, seeking out your local apiaries, and popping the tires on your lawnmowers.
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