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Interviews with Atina Diffley and Karen Le Billon

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4/4/2012:

Part I: Atina Diffley
Turn Here Sweet Corn: Organic Farming Works.

Atina Diffley is an organic vegetable farmer who now educates consumers, farmers, and policymakers about organic farming through the consulting business Organic Farming Works LLC, owned by her and her husband, Martin. From 1973 through 2007, the Diffleys owned and operated Gardens of Eagan, one of the first certified organic produce farms in the Midwest. To contact Atina or Martin Diffley, visit www.organicfarmingworks.com.

4/4/2012:

Part II: Karen Le Billon
French Kids Eat Everything

Born in Montreal and based in Vancouver, Karen Le Billon is an author and teacher. Married to a Frenchman, she has two daughters, and her family divides its time between Vancouver and France.

French Kids Eat Everything (HarperCollins) is Karen’s newest book, a memoir about family and food, inspired by a year spent in her husband’s hometown–a small seaside village in Brittany.

Karen has a PhD from Oxford University, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Rhodes Scholarship, a Canada Research Chair, and Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 award. She currently teaches at the University of British Columbia.

She is one of the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation’s Real Food Advocates.

TRANSCRIPTION PART I:

Hello I’m Caryn Hartglass and you’re listening to It’s All About Food. Hi and Happy April. It is April. I think it’s my favorite month. Not just because it’s spring but because I was born in the month of April and I’m celebrating my birthday all month. Read more »

Remembering Marti Kheel, Illness as a Vegan, Food and Culture, Organic Farming, Sunflowers

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Caryn discusses her brief meeting and conversations with vegan, ecofeminist, activist, scholar and founder of Feminists for Animal Rights, Marti Kheel before she passed in November 2011. Caryn talks about the health expectations involved in eating a healthy vegan diet and, why and what to do when those expectations aren’t achieved, i.e. we are diagnosed with disease. She covers the feedback on the all-white, male panel chosen for the New York Times Magazine’s The Ethicist column Calling All Carnivores
Tell Us Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat: A Contest and the brilliant response by Lori Gruen, A. Breeze Harper, and Carol J. Adams; one’s culture’s impact on healthy eating; organic farming; Monsanto providing free “educational materials” to schools; and beautiful sunflowers and their delicious seeds.

Glutamate, GE Corn, Sugar and Bioplastics

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March 4, 2012: Responsible Eating And Living presents it’s first live broadcast featuring the ASK A VEGAN show. In response to a listener’s question regarding nutritional yeast being an excitotoxin, I talked about glutamate and glutamic acid including MSG, Monosodium Glutamate and other foods with glutamate, whether or not they are healthy or not? Next I discussed Monsanto’s newly approved GE sweet corn, GE corn in the United States, bioplastics, recylcling plastics, the new National Center for Health Statistics report on Consumption of Added Sugar Among U.S. Children and Adolescents 2005-2008.

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Chemicals – the good and bad.

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2/26/2012: The show theme was chemicals, good chemicals and the bad.
Marty Krutolow, the pilot, a.k.a. the Flying Vegan, joined me and we compared “lab meat” to Quorn. I also talked about Monsanto losing a chemical poisoning case in France; herbicides and pesticides; and some delicious new recipes on REAL. This was the final ASK A VEGAN show on the Progressive Radio Network. ASK A VEGAN can now be heard live here on the REAL Worldwide Radio very Sunday from 7-8pm Eastern Time.

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Trust in our food, A New Diabetes Drug, Traffic Light Labeling, Monsanto, GMO protests and Coconut Oil

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1/29/2012: Frequently asked how we can be confident whether our food is organic, I discussed whether or not we can trust the quality of food or other consumable products we purchase. I replied to a listener’s concern about a recent article questioning the compassionate/ethical values of a vegetarian diet and talked about convenience of the new one a week drug for Diabetes; a new study on the power of package labeling; monsanto and protests against genetically modified food; and the benefits of using organic coconut oil for hair and skin.

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