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The decade-long fight to get SNAP online with Nick Green
Episode 17
A long list of investors said no to Nick Green and his co-founders as they were trying to get Thrive Market off the ground. They were rejected so man…
19 hours ago
What the cyclospora outbreak tells us about food safety in America, with Bill Marler
Episode 16
It's been a rough summer for anyone paying attention to food safety in America. Every few days, it seems, we see new headlines about new recalls and …
2 weeks ago
What's on the tray in America's prisons with Daniel Rosen and Leslie Soble
Episode 15
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. often talks about reforming prison food in the same breath as school food, a genuinely unusual thing for a top he…
4 weeks ago
Lessons from a 13-year old lobbying for gluten labeling, with Jon and Jax Bari
Episode 14
At the 2023 HHS Food Is Medicine Summit, one item on the buffet was considered safe for 10-year-old Jax Bari to eat: an apple.
Everything else was a g…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Inside the race to understand America’s growing food allergy epidemic with Ilana Golant
Episode 13
Ten percent of Americans are estimated to have food allergies — and that’s probably an undercount. The government hasn't updated its population data …
2 months, 1 week ago
Why millions of people are dropping from SNAP and what comes next, with Gina Plata-Nino
Episode 12
More than 4 million people have dropped out of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the past year — an unprecedented drop that hasn’t got…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Media roundtable: Covering MAHA with Tal Kopan, Deena Shanker, and Lisa Held
Episode 11
This episode is something a little different: a roundtable with three journalists who've been deep in this moment in food policy, talking frankly abo…
3 months ago
Meet the billionaire trying to clean up the food supply: Todd Wagner.
Episode 10
Todd Wagner, a tech billionaire and Hollywood mogul best known for co-founding Broadcast.com with Mark Cuban, isn’t particularly well known in food w…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
What Big Food wants in the ultra-processed foods debate, with Rocco Renaldi
Episode 9
The debate about ultra-processed foods is loud in America right now, but zoom out, and it's everywhere. Governments around the world are trying to fi…
4 months ago
Nora LaTorre on why school lunch is the biggest lever for children's health
Episode 8
Schools are the largest restaurant chain in America, bigger than Subway, Starbucks, and McDonald's combined. Nearly 100,000 locations, 30 million kid…
4 months, 2 weeks ago