Bio: Eva Greenthal is a Senior Science Policy Associate whose work at CSPI focuses on food labeling, scientific integrity, biotechnology, and more. Prior to joining CSPI, Eva led a pilot evaluation of the nation’s first hospital-based food pantry and worked on research initiatives related to alcohol literacy and healthy habits for young children. Before that, Eva served as a Program Coordinator for Let’s Go! at Maine Medical Center and as an AmeriCorps VISTA Member at HealthReach Community...

Bio: Katy Franklin serves as Operations Director at ReFED, a national nonprofit working to end food loss and waste by advancing data-driven solutions to help businesses, funders, innovators, policymakers, and more address the problem. She supports ReFED's organizational development and strategy and designs systems for effective program implementation and management. Previously, Katy managed operations at Sustainable America, where she gained a deep understanding of successful food waste...

Samantha Levy is American Farmland Trust’s Climate Policy Manager, coordinating the organizations’ Federal and State policy agenda and strategy to help farmers reduce GHG emissions, sequester more carbon in soils, host well-sited renewable energy facilities, and permanently protect more farmland. Prior to this role, Samantha coordinated AFT’s public policy agenda in New York to save the land that sustains us, leading the Alliance for New York’s Farmland to advocate for farmland protection and...

Our guest today is  Beth Hoffman, author of Bet the Farm.   Vegan Stuffing with Mushrooms, Apples and Pecans 1 package Vegan Arrowhead Mills Stuffing Mix (or other) 1 ½ cup vegetable broth 1/3 cup olive oil or coconut oil, plus 2 Tbs 1 onion, chopped 2 stalks celery, chopped 8 oz baby bella mushrooms, chopped 2 Gala apples (or Granny Smith), cored and diced 1 cup chopped pecans, dry toasted 1 Tbs. Poultry spice 1 t. chopped garlic ½ cup Fresh Herbs, (thyme, rosemary, sage,...

Michael Moss is the author of “Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us,” an expose of the processed food industry and a #1 New York Times Bestseller published in 2013 by Random House, and “Hooked: Food, Free Will and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions,” a New York Times Bestseller published in 2021. He is a former investigative reporter with The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting in 2010 for his work on contaminated...

Dr. Sally Edwards is a Senior Research Associate at the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She has many years of experience in engaging a wide range of stakeholders to promote the environmental health of communities and develop safer and greener products. She conducts research to identify environmentally sound solutions and works actively with the Green Chemistry & Commerce Council to advance the use of green chemistry in product design...

Erica Goodman is the New York Regional Director at American Farmland Trust, where she oversees the organization’s work in New York and neighboring New Jersey. A native New Yorker, she grew up as part of a multi-generational dairy farm family in Washington County. Erica has previously held roles on AFT’s national communications team, served as Associate Director of Corporate Partnership at FoodCorps (pronounced Food-Core), and since 2016, Erica has served as representative-at-large for...

Shanna Farrell is an interviewer at UC Berkeley's Oral History Center, where she works on a wide variety of projects and specializes in drink cultural and environmental history. She is the author of Bay Area Cocktails. Her writing has appeared in Imbibe magazine, Life & Thyme, PUNCH, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She holds Master’s Degrees from both New York University and Columbia University.   Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies Makes 22 cookies 1 cup oats, ground 1 cup walnuts,...

Dr. Vanita Rahman is the Clinic Director at the Barnard Medical Center and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, where she leads clinical research, nutrition education programs, and provides patient care with an emphasis on plant-based nutrition. She is also a clinical instructor in medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and frequently speaks at international conferences about the role of nutrition in chronic disease.   Dr. Rahman is a certified...

Bio  Frances Moore Lappé, known to her friends as Frankie, is the author or co-author of twenty books about world hunger, living democracy, and the environment, beginning with the three- million-copy Diet for a Small Planet in 1971. She has been featured on the Today show, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Fox & Friends, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, the CBC and BBC, and other news outlets. Frances is the cofounder of three organizations including the Oakland-based think tank Food First and...

Bio  Jim Goodman is a team member of the editorial group at Disparity to Parity, a non-profit organization working to mandate fair pricing and update supply management to build a racially just, economically empowered, and climate resilient food system. Jim is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin- Platteville with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Animal Science. He also holds a Masters Degree in Reproductive Physiology from South Dakota State University. Jim and his wife Rebecca ran a...

Lisa Ott is the President and CEO of The North Shore Land Alliance. Lisa is a native of Kentucky, a graduate of the University of Kentucky and the Columbia Business School Program for Non Profit Management and the Yale School of Forestry Conservation Finance Program. She is the past chairman of the National Affairs and Legislation Committee of the Garden Club of America and former Trustee of The Nature Conservancy, Long Island Chapter.    Awards and Distinctions 2004, 2006 and 2009-...

Chad Marvin is a current Master’s candidate in Sustainable International Development at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. He served with the Peace Corps as an Agroforestry Volunteer, and then a Cultural Environmental Volunteer Leader from 2017-2020, living in a rural community in the mountainous region of country, Fouta Djallon. Chad’s current research is around the intersection of climate change with women and youth in Guinea. His research is informed by his role as Program...

Christina Grace Bio Christina Grace is CEO of Foodprint Group, a design, training and technology business. Foodprint helps companies eliminate waste using thoughtful space design, best people practices and daily tracking of waste and its greenhouse gas impacts. Christina is co-author of the NYC Zero Waste Design Guidelines, a 20-year expert in sustainable food systems and a trained cook based in Brooklyn.  Christina has spent her career managing projects that drive economic development,...

Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the U.S., integrating market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. Meter has worked for fifty years in inner-city and rural community capacity building. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 143 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations.   Peanut Butter and Jelly Cookies   Makes 22 cookies   1 cup oats, ground 1 cup walnuts, ground 1...

Carey Gillam- The Monsanto Papers Carey Gillam is an American investigative journalist and author with more than 30 years of experiencecovering food and agricultural policies and practices, including 17 years as a senior correspondent forReuters international news service. She has specialty knowledge regarding the rise of biotech croptechnology and the associated rise in pervasive pesticide use in our farming and food production system.Gillam has won several industry awards for her work and...

Ellen Ecker Ogden- THE NEW HEIRLOOM GARDEN Ellen Ecker Ogden is a Vermont writer and the author of The CompleteKitchen Garden and other books on food and gardens. She cofounded TheCook's Garden seed catalog, introducing cooks and gardeners to Europeanspecialty vegetables, herbs, and flowers. She graduated with a degree in finearts, and attended cooking school with Marcella Hazan in Venice, Italy, andat the Ballymaloe School in Shanagarry, Ireland. Her articles and kitchengarden designs have...

Jennifer Molidor, Ph.D. is senior food campaigner at the international conservation nonprofit, Center for Biological Diversity, where she runs sustainable food campaigns, including Take Extinction Off Your Plate campaign. She drives the Population and Sustainability Program’s Earth-friendly Diet initiatives related to industrial animal agriculture, overpopulation and overconsumption, and the impact of our food systems on wildlife and the planet. Before joining the Center in 2015, she worked...

Katie Martin is the Executive Director of the Foodshare Institute For Hunger Research & Solutions. She has over 20 years of experience developing and evaluating creative solutions to hunger. Katie’s work focuses on the connection between hunger and health, and identifying the root causes of food insecurity. Katie has a long track record of building collaborations with local and national anti-hunger organizations. She led the team performing the first rigorous evaluation of a food pantry...

Nicholas Freudenberg is Distinguished Professor of Public Healthat the City University f New York Graduate School of Public Healthand Health Policy where he also directs the CUNY Urban FoodPolicy Institute. His most recent book is At What Cost ModernCapitalism and the Future of Health (Oxford University Press,2021. Beet and Walnut Salad • 2 medium-size beets about 1 lb total • 1 1/2 cups walnut halves • 2-3 cloves garlic minced • 1 tablespoon pomegranate vinegar • 1 t. lemon juice • ½...

Melissa K. Nelson (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is an ecologist,media-maker and scholar-activist. She is a professor ofIndigenous Sustainability in the School of Sustainability atArizona State University (ASU). Before joining ASU, she servedas a professor of American Indian Studies at San FranciscoState University (2002-2020). She is a transdisciplinary andcommunity-based scholar dedicated to Indigenous rights andsustainable lifeways. Nelson advocates for Indigenous Peoplesin in higher...

Roxanne Zimmer, Ph.D., has been spreading the word about best gardenpractices for many years. In her Community Horticulture role at CornellCooperative Extension in Suffolk County, Roxanne speaks to school andcommunity groups about why we should be reducing lawn area, planting nativesand more vegetables. She offers Master Gardener Training and Spring GardeningSchool yearly. A recent initiative is the Seed to Supper program which teachesthose in greatest need how to increase their food...

Joshua Sbicca is Associate Professor of Sociology at Colorado State University. As an educatorand scholar-activist he ties his work to grassroots initiatives to advance food system change andeconomic and racial justice. His research and teaching engage with food as a site of economic,political, and social struggle. His recent work focuses on food systems and cultures and socialmovements at intersections of carcerality, gentrification, and racial capitalism. Underlying theseinterests is an...

Doug spent 31 years with Trader Joe’s Company, the last 14 years as a President, helpinggrow the business from a  small, nine-store chain in Southern California, to a nationallyacclaimed retail success story. He developed their prized buying philosophy, created theirunique private label food program, and wrote and executed the Business Plan forexpanding Trader Joe’s nationally, successfully leading the expansion to the east coast in1996.He graduated from Trader Joe’s in 2008.Doug is the...

My guest is  Laura Lengnick.  Author- Resilient Agriculture: Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate   Laura Lengnick is an award-winning soil scientist who has explored agriculture and foodsystem sustainability for more than 25 years as a researcher, policy-maker, educator,activist, and farmer. She is founder and principal consultant at Cultivating Resilience,LLC, an Asheville, NC-based firm that works with organizations of all kinds to integrateclimate change solutions and...