Sustainable Agriculture

The relationships between food production, human health, and a healthy environment are much more intricate than most of us realize.

Discover how leading scientists are studying those relationships to ensure the future of the human race and planet Earth.

Pesticides and Human Health

Pesticides include over 600 unique chemicals that are designed to kill living organisms. Measurable levels of many of them are found in the bodies of nearly all Americans. Eating pesticide-treated fruits and vegetables is the main source of exposure for most of us. There has been concern for years that…

Chickenizing Farms and Foods

Chickenizing Farms and Foods is a book published by Johns Hopkins Press in September 2016. Written by Ellen K. Silbergeld, Professor of Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, it is the result of 15 years of research into industrial meat production in…

What Should We Eat?

I was invited by Patrick Holden, CEO of the Sustainable Food Trust, to join a group of health-oriented people for a day of exploring the issue of food sustainability. The venue for this one-day meeting was Broadfield Farm in Tetbury, Wales, where Prince Charles has pursued biologically sustainable farming for…

The Center for a Livable Future (CLF)

The Center for a Livable Future is based at Johns Hopkins University. It is a unique academic center, with remarkable accomplishments to its credit in its short span of existence. It was founded in 1996 to study the complex web that interlocks food, the environment, and health. Its goal is…

Precious Gems

I took a round-about trip during the last ten days of October and first half of November to visit family and attend a couple conferences along the way. I put 4000 miles on my little Toyota pickup as I traveled to Florida, Nashville, Indianapolis, and then back to San Antonio.…

The Future of Agriculture

Frederick L. Kirschenmann

In this Healthy Living Radio broadcast, Dr. Ed Dodge interviews Frederick L. Kirschenmann, a longtime national and international leader in sustainable agriculture and Distinguished Fellow for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University.

Originally broadcast July 26, 2011.